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7th Son Trilogy

Cover to Cover #268: JC Hutchins

June 25, 2007June 15, 2024 | 6 Comments
Crucible by Nancy Kress

Cover to Cover #136: Terry Brooks / Nancy Kress

October 18, 2004June 15, 2024
Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana

Cover to Cover #26: Tee Morris

August 29, 2002July 3, 2024
Blood of Ambrose

Cover to Cover #364A: James Enge

June 22, 2009June 10, 2024 | 1 Comment
Pay the Piper: A Rock-n-Roll Fairy Tale

Cover to Cover #182: Jane Yolen / A. M. Veillon

September 5, 2005June 22, 2024 | 5 Comments
Serenity Found

Cover to Cover #286B: Jane Espenson

November 15, 2007June 4, 2024 | 1 Comment

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Review: “Star Trek FAQ” by Mark Clark

Review: “Star Trek FAQ” by Mark Clark

Laith Preston | November 24, 2012May 29, 2024

As a solid Trek fan I am always on the lookout for good books on the franchise, and Star Trek FAQ comes through in spades.

Review: “The Dragon DelaSangre” by Alan F. Troop

Review: “The Dragon DelaSangre” by Alan F. Troop

Joe Murphy | June 12, 2003June 7, 2024 | 4 Comments

Alan F. Troop writes well. His prose has a nice, tight style, and he tells a well constructed, if somewhat convoluted, story. I enjoyed large portions of the book. But the story suffers from two miscalculations that makes the book unfulfilling overall.

Review: “The Sorority” Trilogy by Tamara Thorne

Review: “The Sorority” Trilogy by Tamara Thorne

Joe Murphy | October 14, 2003June 6, 2024

Tamara Thorne wrote The Sorority trilogy as the literary equivalent of a teen exploitation horror movie. It has dozens of girls in a sorority house, an evil sorority president, sex, ghosts, oral sex, dead football players, group sex, human sacrifice, and chipmunk sex. Reading a book like this makes me cry. In college I couldn’t get laid to save my life.

Review: “Black Blade Blues” by J. A. Pitts

Review: “Black Blade Blues” by J. A. Pitts

Tia Bowman | August 13, 2010June 4, 2024

The thing I love about urban fantasy is that it doesn’t take place in some pretend land where everyone can shoot lightning from their eyeballs – it’s here, where we live. There’s always the little extra bit of excitement that it could happen when the story is set in a town you’ve been to, maybe even lived in.

Review: “Necronomicrap” by Tim Frayser

Review: “Necronomicrap” by Tim Frayser

Joe Murphy | February 13, 2005August 10, 2024

The chapbook Necronomicrap: A Guide To Your Horoooscope, by Tim Frayser, mixes astrological “facts” with obvious lampooning. For example, while you can use the book to learn the names of Saturn’s moons, I highly doubt you should share Frayser’s interpretation that the moons regulate “various aspects of human flatulence.”

Review: “7th Sigma” by Steven Gould

Review: “7th Sigma” by Steven Gould

Web Genii | August 17, 2011May 31, 2024 | 2 Comments

I have to admit that I didn’t buy 7th Sigma because of the excerpt called “Bugs in the Arroyo” that you can find for free on the Tor website. I bought it because of Summer’s love for Steven Gould’s Jumper. I’ve never read Jumper, but Summer’s enthusiasm for Gould is contagious.

Review: “The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko

Review: “The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko

Michael Hickerson | July 16, 2009July 27, 2024

I really, really liked Paul Melko’s “The Walls of the Universe.” The problem is I wanted to love it.

Review: “Steampunk!” edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

Review: “Steampunk!” edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant

Web Genii | August 31, 2011June 7, 2024

I do enjoy a good short story anthology and Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories really fits the bill. It offers 14 terrific stories all in the steampunk genre (although some of them are pretty loosely connected — I’m looking at you Garth Nix!). And the quality of the stories are uniformly good.

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