By Bob Cherny on May 13, 2012
Amber finds a genie named Jasper standing in front of her fireplace having just extricated himself from the samovar on her mantle. Think about that for a second. The book is full of stuff like that. Things go downhill from there in a hurry. Many of the world’s best comedians say that comedy is the hardest art form. Lauren Sweet has made it look easy. The book is funny throughout. She makes some of the jokes pay multiple times without their seeming tired. I laughed on almost every page. Some of the jokes work on multiple levels and pay on all of them.
Posted in Relationships/Women's Lit, Robert H. Cherny, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged aladdin's samavar, genie adventure, genie fiction, lauren sweet |
By Bob Cherny on May 9, 2012
THE 5 MOONS OF TIIANA is a kick-butt story and rollicking adventure.
Captain Rez Cantor is a diplomacy officer in the Imperial Army, and personal attaché to Princess Leanna, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Emperor, and sole heir to the Melelan throne.
Posted in Robert H. Cherny, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged 5 moons of tiiana, paul t. harry |
By Susan Anderson on April 19, 2012
THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS: A THRILLER by Richard Stone is the first book his Last Man thriller series. I found the story intriguing and the subterranean landscape entertaining, despite the fact that at first I had problems knowing where I was, distinguishing up from down, at times unable to tell who was saying what to whom.
Posted in Horror/Supernatural, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Susan Anderson | Tagged agony of confusion, altered state of reality, judeo-christian fiction, paranomral thriller, paranormal fiction, richard stone, seraph fiction, the communion of saints, underground fiction |
By Sunni Morris on April 6, 2012
This book is set in a mysterious place called Snowybrook. Unlike what you may think, this fairy tale is for adults.
Posted in Science Fiction/Fantasy, Sunni Morris | Tagged adult fairytale, adult fantasy, elf fantasy, scott reeves, snowybrook inn |
By C. V. Hunt on March 5, 2012
A crew of astronauts fall through time to 1832 and are imprisoned by the autocratic Lord Desbois, who demands the secrets of their advanced technology – for Lord Desbois has seen the future and he is determined to prevent it at all costs…
Posted in C.V. Hunt, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged astronaut fiction, barbabas corbin, c.v. hunt, rise of the steampunk empire, sci fi, science fiction, steampunk, time travel |
By Jaime Hypes on March 3, 2012
The Last Way Station is a speculative fantasy novella chronicling Adolf Hitler’s time after his suicide. Reisfeld gives us a world where Hitler is stuck in a kind of purgatory, unable to move on until his ‘caseworker’ finds him fit to do so. Hitler is forced to relive the atrocities he inflicted upon others- from his victims’ perspective, as he is placed into the bodies of each and every person he affected.
Posted in Historical, Jaime Hypes, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged genocide, historical fantasy, hitler, hitler fiction, holocaust, jon reisfeld, the last way station |
By Shannon Yarbrough on January 28, 2012
Jason Derr’s novella, The Boston 395, started off as a very captivating read with sharp wit and vivid details that really piqued my interest. I’ll try to leave out all locomotive puns since the book is about a train, but by the end it had lost a lot of steam for me.
Posted in Science Fiction/Fantasy, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged boston 395, jason derr, train fantasy, train fiction |
By Bob Cherny on January 19, 2012
This was pitched as a humorous take on a science fiction story and while parts of it are very funny and have a nice bite to them, the story goes on way too long. I had a lot of trouble finishing the book and put it down several times.
Posted in Robert H. Cherny, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged bob cherny, jenn thorson, sci fi fantasy fiction, there goes the galaxy |
By Lloyd Lofthouse on January 13, 2012
A friend sent me a link to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Blog, because she wrote a post comparing traditional and indie publishing. She was also mad at her publishers and editors.
Posted in Lloyd Lofthouse, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged diving in the wreck, kristine kathryn rusch |
By C. V. Hunt on December 9, 2011
In a world where speaking with “wise men” is more like dealing with tech support and romance can be deadly Thursday will have to contend with: the wicked cannibal queen, a zombie grizzly bear, wee werewolves, robot laser-shooting mermaids, a steampunk tortoise, and a Zen archer monkey.
Posted in C.V. Hunt, Horror/Supernatural, Science Fiction/Fantasy | Tagged august v. fahren, c.v. hunt, fairytale, fairytale fiction, fairytale horror, fairytale journey, lethe, thursday thistle |
