In the future, the world is not a pleasant place. Overpopulation and lack of resources have made it a squalor and like many people, Wade Watts escapes his miserable life by logging into the OASIS – a virtual reality environment of unprecedented scale and utopia.
REVIEW – Deathless by Catherynne Valente
September 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Based on Russian history and folktales, DEATHLESS plunges the reader into worlds sometimes beautiful, often horrific, and always grimly fantastic.
REVIEW – In the Garden of Iden by Kage Baker
September 19, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Though iced over with a veneer of Sci Fi, this story boils down to a romance – part Darcy and Elizabeth’s delicious verbal fencing and part steamy bodice-ripper, all shadowed over with the looming efforts of doomed Mary Tudor to re-Catholicize England.
REVIEW – The Secret History of Moscow by Ekaterina Sedia
September 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Though it takes place in an urban setting infused with magic, SECRET HISTORY OF MOSCOW is unlike any urban fantasy I’ve read. It’s strange, and drifty, and thoughtful. Sad. Dreamlike. In fact, the book is much like the Russian fairytales from which its author draws inspiration.
Review: Briarpatch by Tim Pratt
August 31, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Tim Pratt’s latest novel, Briarpatch, is dark (as any story with suicide as a major plot point must be), whimsical (it contains a vignette that’s a pastiche of Winnie the Poo as a zombie apocalypse apocalypse) and it’s tightly satisfying (this is doorstop epic with an economy of prose).
REVIEW – The Black God’s War (Splendor and Ruin, Book I) by Moses Siregar III
August 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
From childhood, the Black God has hounded Lucia. While her brother, Caio, has been chosen as the savior of their people, Lucia is tortured by the Black God’s visions and attempts to reject him. Through artifacts and blessings, the two siblings have been granted the powers of the gods and their father, the Rezzian King, believes they will be the key to winning the ongoing war against the nation of Pawleon.
REVIEW – Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
August 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
BEGGARS IN SPAIN is a tale of biological advantages. It poses the question: what would happen to society if some of it’s members never needed to sleep?
REVIEW – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
July 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Children (teens, really), take center stage here, and like much YA, they are launched into fraught situations and must confront monsters (both real and those within themselves) from which adults cannot save them.
REVIEW – Germline by T.C. McCarthy
July 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In a not-too-distant future, war is waged between the superpowers of the world for mineral resources. Oscar Wendell, a reporter for Stars and Stripes, heads for the front lines in search of a story and a Pulitzer.
REVIEW – Fuzzy Nation, by John Scalzi
May 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
I’m fairly confident when I say that fans of the original will be happy with Fuzzy Nation. It is a faithful adaptation and updating, written with the humor and style we’ve come to expect from Scalzi and a touch of Piper
