Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: Gauntlet Press Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? In the interest of full disclosure: I haven’t watched The Twilight Zone since I was a wee tyke whiling away the hours in after-school sloth, catching episodes by …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Pocket Books Star Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? In his forward to Christopher Golden’s 2001 novel, Hellboy: The Bones of Giants, eponymous comic creator Mike Mignola wrote, “I think The Lost Army is great … but …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Hellboy, the big rough-and-tumble, red-skinned devilish dude whose comic-book history tells us was accidentally brought into this world by evil Nazis at the end of WWII, and who …
Genre: Movie Novelization Publisher: Simon and Schuster Published: 2004 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Yvonne Navarro’s novelization of Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy screenplay is a quick, fun read full of slam-bang monster-fighting action and occultish Nazi intrigue conveyed with workman-like (okay, workwoman-like) …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? It isn’t fair to criticize a work solely for lacking originality. After all, it’s not whether ideas are common or uncommon that distinguishes them nearly as much as …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Vertical Inc. Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Randy Taguchi’s novel, Outlet, a best seller from Japan, possesses qualities both peculiar to Japanese SF and what in western circles is known as “chick lit,” which may mean …
Genre: YA Fantasy Publisher: Vertical Inc. Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Young adult heroic fantasy may be overshadowed these days in a market saturated with gigantic multi-volume world-building word orgies bulging with all the jejune appeal of silicone teats (think …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Any story that makes you want to be more like its heroes, even its tragic ones, has something going for it, even if those heroes happen to be …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Morris Publishing Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Rarely has a worse book been written, and never has a worse one been read. Lest that seem unfair, let me hasten to add that rarely have I ever …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Knopf Published: 1967 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Philip K. Dick starved in relative obscurity for most of his career, being one of those “genre writers” and, perhaps even worse, one of those “science fiction” writers. Then along …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Penguin Published: 1990 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Any novel that poses the question, “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” has just cobbled together a pretty big shoe to fill, and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the …
Genre: Modern/Urban Fantasy Publisher: DC Comics Published: 1999 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Neil Gaiman wrote something called Sandman. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. He wrote some novels and short stories and, oh, by the way, won some awards along the way. …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Vertical Inc. Published: 2003 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Okay, I confess, I saw the American theatrical version of The Ring before I read the novel and my reaction to the original source material has no doubt been tainted …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Hive Press Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? There’s this huge orchestra, see, and in it are all the expected instruments and sections, yeah yeah, all the brass and strings and woodwinds and percussion and even some …
Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Rainfall Books Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Among the blurbs of praise on the book’s back cover you will find this one by David Langford (quoted from SFX magazine), “Kane is best when taking risks with …
Genre: Fantasy Anthology Publisher: Dark Regions Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Some stories exist to enlighten, to instruct, or otherwise educate, while still others expect to do no more than entertain. Most of the tales in Laura J. Underwood’s Tangled …
Genre: Science Fiction Anthology Publisher: Dark Regions Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Ebb Tides is a collection of twenty short stories by Mary Soon Lee who explores the sociological side of science fiction (as opposed to the hard gadget/techy/wow side) …
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: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Eraserhead Press Published: 2001 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? If H.R. Giger wrote stories instead of painting pictures, if he read Lewis Carroll and found himself equally influenced by Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, he might well have written something …
Genre: Horror Publisher: Eggplant Productions Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by James Michael White Have you read this book? Among the guidelines of some horror fiction editors you will find a plea that goes something like, “For God’s sake, don’t send us stories set in clubs or where the …
