Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Suddenly Press Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Catherine H. Shaffer Have you read this book? If there’s one thing I expect from a best-of-the-year anthology, it’s not a surprise. The stories chosen for such a collection usually come with a lot of buzz. …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Baen Published: 1993 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? What a wonderful title, giving a brilliant precis of the story–almost worth 4 stars in itself. And an equally good story line. The action takes place in a alternate earth where …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Wynderry Press Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? I’m somewhat bewildered at where to begin. The Luck of Madonna 13 is an impressive, sprawling book that manages to mix the best of both science fiction and fantasy. …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? The third novel in Dave Duncan’s “King’s Blades” setting, Sky of Swords is a story of intrigue, betrayal, fear and politics rife with narrow escapes, bribery, love and, of course, swords. …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: House of Stratus Published: 1908 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? If John Silence, Physician Extraordinary, the second House of Stratus collection of Algernon Blackwood stories that I’ve read thus far, is any indication of the remaining books in …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Kate Savage Have you read this book? I met Walter H. Hunt at a science fiction convention (Readercon) in 2002. He had the good fortune of receiving praise first hand from the reviewer for Analog for …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Perhaps it started with Alas, Babylon or On The Beach, but some of us can’t get enough of post-apocalyptic fiction. Or dystopias, for that matter. It may be a morbid fascination, but …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Tor Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Kate Savage Have you read this book? Catherine Asaro’s latest novel, The Moon’s Shadow, reads like a historical thriller that just happens to occur in the distant future (2277). It is the latest installment in Asaro’s Skolian Empire …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Harper Collins Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? The second book of Dave Duncan’s ‘King’s Blades’ series begins as a book of the King’s Blades but then morphs into something else. While two of the main characters are Blades, …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Morrow William and Co Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? Imagine that Sir Thomas More had not only lived as a master swordsman, but that he had never needed to choose sides in Henry VIII’s “Great Cause”. If you …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: House of Stratus Published: 1927 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Paul Goat Allen Have you read this book? House of Stratus, an England based publishing company specializing in reissuing classic literary works, has unearthed a huge collection of long out-of-print stories by Algernon Blackwood, the prolific …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Earthlight Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Wendy A. Shaffer Have you read this book? Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s Pashazade: The First Arabesk offers readers a fast-paced tale of murder and intrigue set in the near future city of El Iskandryia, better known to Westerners as …
Genre: Mixed Genre Anthology Publisher: Dark Regions Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? In Crawling Between Heaven and Earth, Sarah A. Hoyt has presented us with a atmospheric and sentimental collection of stories. The primary theme that seems to run through …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Gauntlet Press Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? OVERVIEW: A collection by Jack Ketchum that includes the novella Right to Life plus two short stories, “Brave Girl” and “Returns.” DETAILS: Okay, picture this: You’re a woman (just work …
Genre: Alternate History Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Valerie Frankel Have you read this book? The Wolf King carries readers back to the fall of the Roman empire, a time of ghosts and werewolves, in this breathtaking historic fantasy adventure. Alice Borchard sprinkles her novel with …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Bantam Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Justin Stanchfield Dean Koontz has a rare talent for creating talented misfits and lovable losers a reader truly cares about. His characters inhabit a shadow world resting somewhere on the edge of our own reality, described so vividly …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? If Sword in the Storm was Morte d’Arthur and Midnight Falcon was Gladiator, then Ravenheart is part Rob Roy and part Braveheart. There’s also a fair dash of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly …
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Penguin Published: 1981 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Penguin Putnam is one of the most respected names in publishing, so when they announce the addition of a new imprint, it is front page news in the book world. When …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Sterling House Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Wysards and magick and daimons? With a combination like that, plausibility usually goes up in smoke. No fear. Kephart has taken care of that problem with extremely vibrant storytelling. Her characters …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Delirium Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? OVERVIEW: A collection of four horror short stories and the 134 page novella after which the collection is named. DETAILS: The Maternal Instinct novella is definitely the star of this …
