Embassytown by China Miéville
Max Edwards
My goodness gracious me is there a lot to get through your poor little brain in this book. From the great literary mind of China Miéville, comes this romp through…
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Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
ChrisMB
If you ask any of my friends and family what my main interests have been for the last ten years, I guarantee that you would either hear “fantasy” or “zombies”…
Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
Chelsea Haller
After reading Tamora Pierce’s most recent book Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales, I wanted to reread her other pieces. Of course that means starting at the beginning…
Kraken: An Anatomy by China Miéville
Chloe Smith
They say there are no new stories, just tropes, myths and archetypes that appear over and over again in different guises. This is, perhaps, especially the case in genres such…
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
Alister Davison
Now that I’ve got my breath back, I’ll begin. I’ve read a couple of Richard Morgan’s science fiction novels, so I was looking forward to The Steel Remains, his first…
Purple and Black by K. J. Parker
Khaldun
Subterranean Press recently announced a new novella from K. J. Parker, the enigmatic author of The Company and The Engineer Trilogy. As with all Subterranean Press Novella’s these were limited,…
Coyote Trilogy by Allen Steele
Jo Warne
Coyote: A Novel of Interstellar Exploration (Book 1) Synopsis: Coyote is an astonishing discovery, a habitable moon in a solar system 40-odd light years from Earth. A despotic post-US government…
Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont
Before I start, I need to make a confession. I picked up Steven Erikson’s Gardens of the Moon a while back, got around 100 pages in and gave up. To…
The Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey
Jennie Ivins
Rosalind Hawkins was born in the wrong era. Before women were allowed to vote, even before electricity had reached all areas of the country, Rose was working towards acquiring her…
Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales by Tamora Pierce
Tamora Pierce has been entertaining teens for years, especially those who are female. Most of her books have a very strong feminine main character who struggles through the world of…
Fantasy Book Club – May 2011: FEED by Mire Grant
Overlord
Hello Fantasy Fans! Been a good month for fantasy, what with Game of Thrones and some really cool releases hitting shelves. It looks like though (based on the voting) that…
Feed by Mira Grant
It’s somewhat appropriate to write a blog post about Mira Grant’s Feed, seeing as its concerned not only with zombies, but blogging too. Here one comes and all – an…