Genre: Horror Publisher: Darkwater Syndicate Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Slasher Sam, by Simon Petersen is a fun tongue-in-cheek take on the serial killer film subculture, primarily as it’s represented in late 70’s and early 80’s slasher movies. Peterson draws inspiration from a …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Xlibris Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Not Rated Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? If you’ve been reading my reviews on SFReader, you might have noticed that The Imaginarium Machine, by John Adrian Tomlin, has a different rating from my others: Not Rated. That’s became I …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? The Best of Bad-Ass Faeries, edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, brings us fun stories of your not-so-typical fairy-tale type. Here we’ve got bikers. mobsters, cowboys, assassins, criminals, and all manner of dark-side, noir …
Genre: Superhero Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Contents Song of Tyrta by Drew Bittner Cold Snap by Ty Johnson Return of the Devis by Torah Cottrill Fire and Brimstone by Walt Ciechanowski Little Sisters of the Hourglass by James …
Genre: Nonfiction Biography Publisher: Athanor Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Like it or not (and it seems Shatner mostly railed against it), Captain James T. Kirk is a global, cultural icon. In William Shatner, a Transformed Man, Hauck exposes some of the man …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? If We Had Known, edited by Mike McPhail, presents thirteen stories of humanity’s future, each one (some more than others) exploring the theme of if we had know what would …
Genre: Military Science Fiction Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 201 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? The Die Is Cast, edited by Greg Schauer, contains 10 stories by Mike McPahil and Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Although The Die Is Cast was published in 2017, most of the stories …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In Yesterday’s Dreams, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Kara O’Keefe, overwhelmed by the expenses of her father’s cancer treatments, finds herself forced to give up the violin passed down to her by her …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: eSpec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? To condense the official blurb: In The Halfling’s Court, by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lance Cosain is the halfling (as in half-human, half-elf, not the Middle Earth kind) leader of The Wild Hunt …
Genre: Military SF Publisher: Espec Books Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In All Directions, by David Sherman, is the second book in his The 18th Race series, covering military action by the Earth against a particularly aggressive alien species that invaded and …
Genre: Apocalyptic Science Fiction Publisher: Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In the near future (the reader isn’t told precisely when) the United States has broken up into a separate zones, each zone protected by a “salt line”, a broad expanse of scorched …
Genre: Military SF Publisher: Dark Quest Published: 2013 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In humanity’s expansion out of the solar systems and into the galaxy, we have discovered evidence of eighteen other sentient species. Seventeen of these species had not developed interstellar travel and …
Genre: Science Fantasy Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? In Nyxia, by Scott Reintgen, we’re introduced to Emmet Atwater and nine other teens, all candidates selected by the corporation Babel. In secret and using technology most of the …
Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? I had a lot of fun reading this book, although not as much fun as I suspect John Magna had writing it. He draws on his interest in mythology, specifically Norse and Geek, combined …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: Third Flatiron Publishing Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Cat’s Breakfast is an anthology from Third Flatiron that pays tribute to the inspiration of Kurt Vonnegut, presenting stories that seek (and mostly succeed) to emulate Vonnegut’s dark humor …
Genre: Alternate History (historical fantasy) Publisher: Overlook Press Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Battle for Rome is the third book in the Twilight of Empire historical fantasy series, which takes place at the end of the Roman empire and focuses primarily on …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Dog Horn Publishing Published: 2012 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Let me get my genre classification out the way, as those of you who’ve read this (or might read it) could potentially disagree. Despite a spaceship, space-travel, androids, and aliens, I’m …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tachyon Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? Every now and then something comes along that reminds me of my love for short stories. Novels are still my go too, especially when it comes to writing reviews, but a good short story is …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Sinister Grin Press Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Have you read this book? People of the Sun, by Jason Parent is a first contact book, with aliens landing on Earth. First contact stories come with a lot of built in tropes: how the …
Genre: Weird Western Publisher: Third Flatiron Publishing Published: 2017 Reviewer Rating: Reviewer: David L. Felts Third Flatiron Press has been putting fun little anthologies for a while now. Principa Ponderosa, edited by Juliana Rew, is the 18th Third Flatiron anthology. I’ve read numerous other and found them all, like Principia Ponderosa, to …
