First it was Hard Science Fiction, then Video Games, and now the crew at Geek & Sundry are running a Fantasy Contest through Inkshares. The premise is simple – submit a few chapters or a proposal on Inkshares between now and November 1st, get as many followers interested in your project as you can, and […]
Award Winning Author Of BRAVE STORY and THE BOOK OF HEROES Returns With A Captivating New Supernatural Crime Thriller Set In Tokyo San Francisco, CA, August 19, 2016 – VIZ Media’s Haikasoru literary imprint proudly announces the North American release of its newest novel – famed Japanese author Miyuki Miyabe’s supernatural thriller, THE GATE OF SORROWS. THE […]
There is one thing I want you to know about Andrew Fazekas’s Star Trek: The Official Guide To The Universe: True Science Behind The Starship Voyages: We had such fun reading the book that we bought a telescope. If that’s not a great recommendation, then I don’t know what is. I knew I was going to […]
I stumbled onto Planetfall by Emma Newman when I was sent into the bookstore, and directed not to leave until I had selected three books for myself. I made well and truly sure that I took my sweet time at it, and I’m glad, because I found Planetfall at the very last moment. The book […]
“It’s the Napoleonic War. With DRAGONS,” my husband said to me as he pretty much dropped Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon on my lap and walked away. Well, okay then. How could I possibly resist? As t turns out, I really couldn’t. It was such good fun. The book starts in about 1804, during the War of […]
The Legend of Tephra by Carolin J.V. Milner is one of those lovely little gems that finds you and then takes you on a fantastic journey away from yourself for a while, something that all the best books do. This is the first book for the author who did both the writing and all the […]
I started reading Luna: New Moon, by Ian McDonald, thinking, well, lets see. I kept reading it, thinking, where is he going with this? Really? I don’t know how I feel about this book. Then I looked at the clock and I realized it was 2:17 am. I wasn’t showing any signs of putting Luna: New […]
The Damned, the debut novel from Tarn Richardson, released this month from Overlook Press is definitely eye-catching. Part one in a trilogy, all featuring the main character, Poldak Tacit, The Damned takes place in an alternate history WWI setting, where werewolves are real and the Catholic Church’s Inquisition never actually disbanded. Tacit is one […]
I’ve been a big fan of author John Sandford for many, many years. Author of the long-running “Prey” series, which are NOT science fiction, and the related Virgil Flowers series, as well as a handful of other books, Sandford is a consistent expert in suspenseful, exciting crime/mystery/police novels. His books are on my “must-read” list. […]
The first thing I do when I pick up a book like this is give it a good sniff. If it’s from the 60s or 70s you can guarantee that those yellowed pages of sepia-tone nostalgia will greet you with a warm, musty scent, reserved for tightly-packed second-hand bookstores and the forgotten back-rooms of thrift […]
