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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Children & Fantasy – The Introductory Phase
Laura Graham
Since I finished university, I’ve had a little more free time on my hands. My favourite way using some of this time to help out my aunt and a friend…
The Changing Face of SFF
Leo Elijah Cristea
Elspeth Cooper—author of Songs of the Earth—said “fantasy’s a broad church” and she couldn’t have been more right, especially in regards to the modern fantasy and science fiction market. If…
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.…
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…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Winter
Jennie Ivins
Welcome back everyone! Big news this month! In January, I hinted that there was something big coming from Fantasy-Faction for short story writers. For those of you who didn’t catch…
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
Overlord
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…
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…
City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton
Often these reviews begin with comparing the writer in question with another; or even to a combination of two or even three writers. The novel features boats, then compare the…
Rise of Empire by Michael J. Sullivan
Since I really enjoyed Theft of Swords, and my habit is to keep reading something until it ceases to be entertaining, I picked up Rise of Empire. As before, the…