Genre: Faith Based Science Fiction Publisher: Pocket Books Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? It was interesting to me to note that The War in Heaven was originally published in mass-market paperback in 2000. Now, Pocket Books has reissued it as …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Pinnacle Horror Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? I couldn’t tell you where, but I’ve read some Scott Nicholson stories before; on the web or in print, I’m not sure, but I recognized his name when I saw …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Bluejack Have you read this book? China Mieville brought a bold and unforgiving new vision to speculative fiction with Perdido Street Station. The Scar is a sequel more in spirit than in narrative (although a few filaments of character …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Kane Have you read this book? Einstein once said, “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: FictionWise Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Jack Crane Have you read this book? Everybody remembers High School. Junior High. Either you loved it or you hated it, probably both, but if you’re like me, you still get an excited, exotic feeling in mid-June, …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Lethe Press Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Steve Berman’s Lethe Press collection of thirteen stories is sold under the label Gay Fiction/Dark Fantasy, and the fiction is certainly gay-themed–by which I mean the tales often …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? Although Arena uses most of the traditional trappings of science fiction (aliens, energy fields, particle weapons, teleportation devices, etc.) this story is really fantasy. Furthermore, it belongs to …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Yard Dog Press Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? The Garden in Bloom is a novella formed of three short stories; “The Halls of the Gods”, “Blossom Season”, and “The Garden in Bloom”. The stories are about …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Cemetery Dance Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? (This Classic Return is one of the most important collections of the last few years. You may have to hunt to find it, but it’s well worth the effort. …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Ace Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? This month’s Classic Return is a “quiet” ghost story in what I call the California Gothic tradition. Do hunt this one down if quiet ghosts — or even loud ones …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Random House Published: 1996 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? Karen Joy Fowler’s first novel, Sarah Canary, is a marvel, an amazing, original novel about aliens, of all sorts, in the 1870’s American West. It is extraordinarily assured, the best …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Richard R. Horton Have you read this book? I’ve read some solid SF novels in 2002 so far — The Years of Rice and Salt, Permanence, Schild’s Ladder. It hasn’t been a bad year. But nothing that …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: SFF Net Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Eugene Wiley Have you read this book? As a fan of “near future” SF, I was quite excited to crack open one of SFF.net’s original fiction anthologies, The Age of Wonders, edited by Jeffry Dwight. An …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Barnes and Noble Digital Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? Doug Clegg (GOAT DANCE, NAOMI, YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU, THE INFINITE) turns in a sizzling performance in this thoroughly engaging cross-genre thriller. Shocking, horrifying, and twisted …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Harcourt Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? In Puerto Rico of one hundred years hence, Armageddon fever strikes again. Experts have determined that we were wrong to fear 1999; it’s 2099 we need to worry about. But don’t, …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Kensington Publishing Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? Sometimes the logic behind the publishing industry’s decisions simply eludes me. Anyone who knows me has heard my rant about publishers who throw books at the market like chefs throw …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? There’s that real estate joke about how the top three selling points are “location, location, location.” In horror, to draw a not-so-scientific parallel, sometimes it’s all about “atmosphere, atmosphere, …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Morrow William and Co Published: 1997 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? I decided to revisit this novel as a Classic Return when I saw the adulation Gaiman fans have for their hero. At April’s World Horror Convention, I …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Henry Holt and Company Published: 1996 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Louis Maistros Have you read this book? This book review has no business being here. It’s not current (came out in 1996) and is not horror in the traditional sense (though some of the content …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Louis Maistros Have you read this book? Lovers of literary dark fiction will not want to miss this one. Weighing in at a lean, mean 196 pages, “Being Dead” by Jim Crace has all the unlikely …
