Ganymede by Cherie Priest
Liz Fellshot Ambrose
In Ganymede, Cherie Priest continues to explore an alternate universe, war torn US in the late nineteenth century. After reading and thoroughly enjoying Boneshaker and Dreadnought (and then hunting down…
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Vs. Reality by Blake Northcott
Kit
This reviewer comes to you completely shocked. Less than 30 hours after uploading Ms. Northcott’s Vs. Reality to my Kindle, I have completely devoured it. Devoured it, I tell you,…
Kultus by Richard Ford
Overlord
“A steam-powered burlesque of brutal demonic action!”
Among Others by Jo Walton
Faith M. Boughan
Hugo Award-winning author Suzy McKee Charnas called Walton’s Among Others, “a love letter, laced with sharp-edged anguish and triumph, from within the SF/F genres to the SF/F genres.” I balked.…
Control Point by Myke Cole
Jennie Ivins
Oscar Britton took his job seriously. As an officer in the US Army, he helped defend both the country and its citizens. That in and of itself was difficult, but…
Swords and Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery Edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders
Dominic Stevens
“Here, then, are seventeen original tales of sword and sorcery, penned by masters old and new. What follows are stories of small stakes but high action, grim humor mixed with…
The Scions of Shannara by Terry Brooks
ChrisMB
We interrupt my regular schedule of reviews to bring up a matter that has caused me to give pause and reflect on things of late. This January (as in the…
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
In the effort to break away from the overwhelming US/European cultural trend that runs rampant through so much of fantasy, I decided to start expanding my reading to a more…
Fantasy Book Club – February 2012: The Darkness That Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
This month we will be trying a book that hasn’t had a huge amount of exposure, and yet, behind the scenes, in the blogging community, it has a lot of…
Empire State by Adam Christopher
So, essentially, we as fantasy fans don’t mind a bit of repetition. In fact, I think the majority of us would admit that within our genre there isn’t a huge…
The Worm Ouroboros by Eric Rucker Eddison
Nyki Blatchley
We all know what epic fantasy is supposed to be like. It should involve a vast war between good and evil (or at least between significantly better and significantly worse)…
Giant Thief by David Tallerman
Do you remember when giants were ‘in’? No? Well, actually – neither do I. Probably because giants had their hey-day many, many years ago. Hercules met a few, David took…