Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror

    Monday 16 November 2009

  • Book Review: Incarceron

    Book Review: Incarceron
    With only indistinct memories to go by, seventeen year old inmate Finn feels he is different from the multitude of other Incarceron prisoners in that he came from Outside. Some argue there is no Outside world, nothing beyond Incarceron’s ever-changing interior with the cycles of...

  • Book Review: Quatrain

    Book Review: Quatrain
    Set in four different worlds, this collection of novellas bridge between fantasy, romance and sci-fi while exploring how diverse societies practice segregation in one form or another. “Flight” is a sweet tale about Salome, a disillusioned Samarian woman who will stop at nothing to save her niece from making the same mistake with...

  • Book Review: Rosemary and Rue

    Book Review: Rosemary and Rue
    Being half-human and half-fae means San Francisco based private investigator October Toby Daye is a changeling, fitting in neither world. Her magic abilities are weak and most fae look down on changelings yet despite this, the King trusts Toby. After her last assignment resulted in fourteen years spent...

  • Book Review: The Silver Mage

    Book Review: The Silver Mage
    Kerr wraps up her epic fifteen book series begun in 1986 with the Northlands once again facing the threat of Horsekin invasion. With the disappearance of Haen Marn, an island held by the dwarves, inhabitants of Deverry team up with elven Wise Ones in an attempt to save the Northlands and all who...

  • Book Review: Covet

    Book Review: Covet
    The ongoing battle between Heaven and Hell is about to be resolved once and for all time in a fight waged by seven ordinary people. The outcome will decide the fate of their souls and that of earth. Naturally, the champions of Hell do not intend to play by the rules...

  • Monday 09 November 2009

  • Book Review: Elegy Beach

    Book Review: Elegy Beach
    Ariel fans waited twenty-six years for this sequel to a Changed world when technologies suddenly failed and magic took over, hardly an original theme now, but groundbreaking in 1983. In the decades since the Change, Pete Garey the teenaged hero of Ariel has become a father, settled in Del Mar. His son Fred is...

  • Book Review: Magic in the Shadows

    Book Review: Magic in the Shadows
    Monk’s third book picks up Allison Beckstrom’s misadventures shortly after Magic in the Blood that ended with her father’s death…or did it. Following Daniel Beckstrom’s funeral Allie begins hearing his voice in her head, demanding she “find the disks, find my killer” and worse, he continues...

  • Sunday 01 November 2009

  • Book Review: Fade Out

    Book Review: Fade Out
    The human and vampire residents of Morganville, Texas are busy coming to terms with a more equal relationship then was possible under Bishop’s rule. Bishop, the former ruling vampire was evil personified and thought of humans as little more then playthings to be subjugated with...

  • Book Review: Archenemy

    Book Review: Archenemy
    The third and final book of The Looking Glass Wars finds Queen Alyss on the throne after an intense confrontation with Redd, the former queen who relied on dark imagination to maintain control of the kingdom. As Alyss begins her reign, reestablishing Wonderland to its former glory, King Arch from a neighboring...

  • Book Review: Boilerplate

    Book Review: Boilerplate
    After the death of his brother-in-law Hugh in the 1871 Korean War, Professor Archibald Campion resolved to create a mechanical substitute for human solders so the senseless killing of war wouldn’t tear families apart. With the invention of a revolutionary new fuel cell, much experimentation and...

  • Friday 23 October 2009

  • Book Review: Chasing the Dragon

    Book Review: Chasing the Dragon
    Book four of the Quantum Gravity series picks up cyborg Lila Black’s topsy-turvy world shortly after her return home following Going Under. Although she has only been gone a few months inexplicitly, fifty years have passed her by on Otopian. An agent with the Otopian Secret Service...

  • Book Review: Dracula the Un-Dead

    Book Review: Dracula the Un-Dead
    Not to be confused with Freda Warrington’s 1999 release of the same title, this collaborative sequel by Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew Dacre and screenwriter Holt takes considerable artistic license with the original story. Changing the timeline allows dubious connections with...