The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron For me, this Stoker award winning collection has a lot of merit, but simply doesn’t capture me on an individual level. It’s hard for me to say where exactly the book doesn’t work me. In many of the stories, I simply spaced out and lost […]
Book Review: DEVICES AND DESIRES by K.J. Parker
July 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment
“The quickest way to a man’s heart,” said the instructor, “is proverbially through his stomach. But if you want to get into his brain, I recommend the eye-socket.” So begins Devices and Desires, the first novel in K.J. Parker’s masterful Engineer Trilogy. (It also happens to be the opening lines of Evil for Evil, and […]
Graphic Novel Review: ZITA THE SPACEGIRL by Ben Hatke
July 28, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke Paperback, 192 pages Published February 1st 2011 by First Second Books Publisher Description: Zita’s life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye. When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a […]
Game Review: Wolfenstein The New Order
July 24, 2014 by 2 Comments
This game has no right being as good as it is. There. I’ve said it. Wolfenstein: the New Order from Machine Games is an action adventure first person shooter (FPS) set in an alternate version of 1960’s Europe where the Nazis won the war. You play as special forces operative Captain William “B.J” Blazkowicz, who […]
Book Review: ROGUES by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
July 23, 2014 by 2 Comments
George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois have produced many anthologies together, and I can honestly say the arrival of ROGUES had me the most excited. While initially, I had this book on pre-order because I wanted to read the story by Patrick Rothfuss, I was continually impressed by the quality of works in this […]
Book Review – DEAD WEST: OMNIBUS by Marquitz, Martin and Soward
July 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Dead West Omnibus is the collected edition of two novels by Tim Marquitz, J.M. Martin and Kenny Soward: Those Poor, Poor Bastards, and The Ten Thousand Things, published by Ragnarok Publications. As I wrote in my review of the Those Poor, Poor Bastards, this zombie romp through the wild west is unique, fast paced and […]
Book Review: LOVE MINUS EIGHTY by Will McIntosh
July 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Based off the Hugo Award Winning Best Short Story, “Bridesicle,” Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh has been on my expect-to-be-wowed list for the last year. I let a friend borrow my copy and his quick review was, good, but definitely a love story. I would say, great and it’s a love story. I am […]
Book Review: THE QUANTUM THIEF and THE FRACTAL PRINCE by Hannu Rajaniemi
July 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The John Le Flambeur series, or at least the two books released so far, are stories for those who love stories. Linguaphiles in particular will be delighted by The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince from Hannu Rajaniemi, whose last name takes some practice to say if you’re not a native Finnish speaker. The third, […]
Audiobook Review: THE LIVES OF TAO by Wesley Chu
July 15, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu has been out and praised by readers for the past year, winning the ALA Alex Award in 2014 and being a Goodreads Finalist for Best Science Fiction in 2013. Many have compared The Lives of Tao to the TV show Chuck because it is also a light hearted […]
Book Review: HALF A KING by Joe Abercrombie
July 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy came at the cusp of when fantasy was going through a change. The eighties and nineties fantasy market was dominated with Tolkienesque fantasy. Authors like Terry Brooks, David Eddings, and Robert Jordan brought us hefty series of unlikely heroes saving the world against seemingly unstoppable evils with a clear delineation between good and evil. […]
