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Category Archives: Reviews
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
First of all, to be clear, I’m reviewing two titles together here: The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century, and The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England, both by UK historian Ian … Continue reading
The Last Full Measure by Jack Campbell
The Last Full Measure is an alternate history novella by Jack Campbell, set in the middle of the Nineteenth Century in the US around the time of the Gettysburg Address. (The title is actually a famous quote from that speech.) … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Reviews, Science Fiction
Tagged Jack Campbell, Subterranean Press
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The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty
Think of The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty as a cozy urban fantasy novel, in the same vein as the popular “cozy mysteries” written by authors like Janet Evanovich but in an urban fantasy setting. In … Continue reading
The Corpse Reader by Antonio Garrido
The Corpse Reader by Antonio Garrido came to my attention thanks to a blurb I saw on Booklist: “CSI: Song Dynasty”. Having read Guy Gavriel Kay’s excellent River of Stars relatively recently (my review, author interview), I was eager for … Continue reading
The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez (includes giveaway!)
Before I get to the actual review, a brief side-note: the story of this book’s publication is interesting in itself. The Daedalus Incident was originally scheduled to be released a while back, but then the whole Night Shade Books situation happened, putting … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Giveaways, Reviews, Science Fiction
Tagged Michael J. Martinez, Night Shade Books
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YOU by Austin Grossman
We were feeling something they never had— a physical link into the world of the fictional— through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It … Continue reading
Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh
Will McIntosh has been on my list of favorite new authors since his excellent 2011 debut novel Soft Apocalypse. (Incidentally, my review of that novel was also the very first review I posted on this site, back in January 2012!) To celebrate … Continue reading
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell
The protagonist in Sean Ferrell’s Man in the Empty Suit has seen and done it all. Thanks to his ability to travel in time, he’s cruised all the way up and down the course of human history. There’s not much … Continue reading
Damocles by S.G. Redling
Damocles by S.G. Redling is a charming but flawed twist on first contact stories, the twist being that, in this case, the humans are the aliens who are landing on a faraway planet after a long period of cryogenic sleep. … Continue reading
Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett
It’s been two months now since I read Mr. Shivers, the excellent 2010 debut novel by Robert Jackson Bennett. I tend to procrastinate when I don’t have a deadline, usually in favor of review assignments with actual deadlines. It’s a … Continue reading
Far Beyond Reality 