Adventures in SciFi Publishing is pleased to share this interview with Rachel Caine and offer a giveaway of her newest book, Terminated: A Revivalist Novel, (in paperback). Details at the bottom for how to enter. First, a brief intro to Rachel: Rachel Caine is the NEW YORK TIMES and #1 internationally bestselling author of more […]
Book Review: SEA CHANGE by S.M. Wheeler
August 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Lilly is the unhappy child of two powerful but dysfunctional parents who despise each other. The girl, however, finds solace at the ocean, where she meets and befriends an eloquent, intelligent sea monster, a kraken, whom she names Octavius. Octavius wants to hear stories all the time and, in exchange, he teaches the girl about […]
Book Review: PARASITE by Mira Grant
August 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The zombie apocalypse will be televised, but it will not be the rising of the undead according to Mira Grant, author of Feed, Blackout & Deadline. In her latest book, Parasite, and the first of the new Parasitology trilogy, zombies are the result of a reasonable scientific explanation and not magic. The problem is the […]
Book Review: iD by Madeline Ashby
July 30, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Madeline Ashby’s The Machine Dynasty series takes place in a world where Christian leaders have created robots (called vN) to provide for those left behind in the event of the biblical Rapture. This has not happened, and the aftermath of their preparation is neither utopia or dystopia. What we do have is a compelling story […]
Interview with Gardner Dozois: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection
July 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Gardner Dozois is an American science fiction author and editor. He is the founding editor of The Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984 – present) and was editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine (1984 – 2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He has also won the Nebula Award […]
Book Review: THE THOUSAND NAMES by Django Wexler
July 16, 2013 by 1 Comment
Flintlock Fantasy is one of those new terms genre fans are hearing a lot of these days. It’s one sub-genre this reader happens to like very much. Django Wexler’s debut, The Thousand Names: Book One of The Shadow Campaigns, is a fine addition to the growing number of Fantasy novels mixing magic and Napoleonic-era technology. […]
Book Review: THE BLUE BLAZES, by Chuck Wendig
July 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In The Blue Blazes, by Chuck Wendig, the Underworld–a series of caverns, tunnels and bolt-holes–lurks beneath New York City and burrows deep into the earth toward the mythical Vast Expanse. This space is inhabited by goblins, Snakefaces, the living dead and those that defy being named. Often, these beings venture out among the humans. Some […]
Book Review: WOLFSANGEL by M.D. Lachlan
July 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Wolfsangel is the first book in the Claw Trilogy. Penned by M.D. Lachlan, an alias of Mark Barrowcliffe, Wolfsangel is a novel about the Norse mythos and werewolves during the Viking age. In this book, creatures of legend and gods of myth retake their place as world-shapers and destroyers, playing with the fates of human […]
Locus Award Winners 2013
June 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Locus Awards are poll-based awards for books published in the previous year, and are voted on by readers across the world. Congratulations to this year’s finalists and winners, it is truly a who’s who of genre fiction. I am thrilled for the winners and sad for those who did not win, but with the […]
Book Review: NO RETURN by Zachary Jernigan
June 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Zachary Jernigan’s debut novel, No Return, is a refreshing blend of literary science fiction and fantasy sure to engross readers of genre fiction. If you are looking for something challenging and original, look no further. No Return’s characters resist archetypes. The story refuses to fall into familiar tropes. Jernigan’s use of lyrical prose and imagery […]
