Book Review: Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery
Reviewing Slattery’s Lost Everything will seem rather convenient in light of Elizabeth Bear’s Clarkesworld post on the doom and gloom nature of SF. How awful of me to love another work that makes us all sad and boo hoo inside! Except Lost Everything isn’t terribly boo hoo, unless the only thing you pay attention to is […]
Book Review: After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh
Collections of short stories are still the hardest thing for me to review, which invariably means the following review will be flawed both methodologically and stylistically. But perhaps I can move past this by way of the interconnected-ness of the stories in Maureen F. McHugh’s After the Apocalypse. Unlike most collections, McHugh’s stories revolve around the […]
Book Review: Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy
There’s something stirring in India. A specter, if you will, of a dark time arisen and a dark time to come. Whether we call it capitalism, corporatism, or new (neo) Imperialism, the fact remains that those most affected by the shifting dynamics of contemporary industrialization will be the disenfranchised and the disinherited. Arundhati Roy’s (The God […]
Book Review: Crack’d Pot Trail by Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen series took the fantasy world by storm when Gardens of the Moon was published in 1999, leading to a 10-novel epic fantasy series, several additional novels written by Ian Esslemont, and a number of novellas. Earlier this year, Crack’d Pot Trail, a tale of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, hit […]
Book Review Published: Bricks by Leon Jenner (Strange Horizons)
Good news! I got another book review published. Awesome, right? Go read it and let me know what you think. And if the book sounds interesting to you, go buy it on Amazon or B&N or somewhere else!
Book Review: Down the Mysterly River by Bill Willingham (and Mark Buckingham)
Fantasies for young readers are almost always a joy to read. I’m no sure what it is about such books. Maybe it’s to do with the whimsical style — of which Down the Mysterly River has plenty — or the adventures — ditto. Or maybe there’s something else I haven’t discovered yet. In any case, […]