Genre: Horror Anthology Publisher: Gauntlet Press Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Ray Wallace Have you read this book? There are a few lists that I like to keep. Very informal lists. I’ve never even written them down. They exist only in my mind. Most of them have to …
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: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? The year is 2020, and some things have changed. Corporations have more power, national governments less. The Council, an alliance of corporations, has constructed Xanadu, one of several floating …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: iUniverse Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? Barry Longyear usually writes science fiction; to date this is his only fantasy. It is set in an unnamed world with a rather Arabian Nights flavor, populated with beggars and merchants, wizards …
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: Fantasy Publisher: NAL Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by David Hart Have you read this book? It is a truth universally acknowledged that Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings has only one defect: it is too short. According to Newsgroup rumor, McKiernan offered to remedy this but the Tolkien …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Ace Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Bluejack Have you read this book? Joe Haldeman has always been preoccupied with sex, the complications of sexual relationships, the ways in which traditional ideals break down in confrontation with real life. With a title as provocative as …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? David Gemmell is a good writer. He’s proved that to me and I have no question as to his capability. That’s part of the problem. I know what he’s capable of. When …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Ballantine Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Fraser Ronald Have you read this book? I find myself quite capable of containing the excitement. I have to go on record before I begin my review as not being impressed by any of Mr. Gemmell’s Waylander novels so …
Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Morrow William and Co Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? Big, sprawling, end-of-the-world (EotW) novels happen to be a sub-genre I enjoy. Stephen King’s The Stand is one of my all-time favorites, as are others such as …
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: 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: Pocket Books Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lalith Vipulananthan Have you read this book? Nominally set in the Culture Universe, Inversions is seemingly bereft of of the technologically-advanced and galaxy-spanning utopia that looms large within Banks’s preceding novels. Instead the focus is on the …
Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Xlibris Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lynn Nicole Louis Have you read this book? After my last experience with a POD (Publish on Demand) book (The Wizard’s Wife) I was leery when Dave (the webmaster) offered me another one. Davidson’s Immortal: A Linking of …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? It is a mark of Almekinder’s talent for description that, even as I sweat out another green winter in Florida, I can so easily slip into the lethally icy …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: DAW Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? If this is your first foray into the amazing world of Simon R. Green, you’re in for some surprises. This is not your father’s sword-and-sorcery. Hawk and Fisher are a duo unlike …
Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates Published: 2000 Reviewer Rating: Book Review by Lisa DuMond Have you read this book? Fantasy series that can be enjoyed by young adults and, well, adult adults are few and far between, fewer still are the ones that are well done. With the Animist, …
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: 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: 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, …
