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Category Archives: Reviews
The Incrementalists by Steven Brust and Skyler White
With certain authors, I’m reaching the point where I feel like I may as well stop reviewing them, because their books have become so reliable it verges on the predictable. Not that I’d stop reading them: I enjoy their works, … Continue reading
The One-Eyed Man: A Fugue, with Winds and Accompaniment by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
In early 2012, Tor editor David Hartwell launched what came to be known as the Palencar Project: a set of short stories based on a painting by John Jude Palencar. The project would end up including stories by Gene Wolfe, James … Continue reading
23 Years On Fire by Joel Shepherd
It’s been almost a decade since the release of Killswitch, the third novel in Joel Shepherd’s excellent Cassandra Kresnov series. In that time, Shepherd wrote a series of four fantasy novels entitled A Trial of Blood and Steel (also excellent, by … Continue reading
Transcendental by James Gunn
I had high hopes for Transcendental, the new novel by veteran SF author James Gunn, based on the publicity copy from publisher Tor: Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a … Continue reading
The Girl in the Mirror by Lev Grossman
Tor.com asked me to write a review of the short story “The Girl in the Mirror” by Lev Grossman, which will appear in the new anthology Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Because this anthology is … Continue reading
The Darwin Elevator (Dire Earth #1) by Jason M. Hough
Karin Kross just posted an excellent piece on Tor.com about “dumb” action movies, nominally a review of Pacific Rim (which I haven’t seen) but with broader application to anything we tend to label as “dumb”: Respectfully, I would like to … Continue reading
The Beautiful Land by Alan Averill
I picked up The Beautiful Land by Alan Averill because its plot summary piqued my interest: Takahiro O’Leary has a very special job… …working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines—as many and as varied as anyone … Continue reading
Equations of Life (Samuil Petrovitch #1) by Simon Morden
I picked up Equations of Life, the first novel in Simon Morden’s Samuil Petrovitch series, after receiving a copy of his latest novel The Curve of the Earth for review. The new novel is the fourth one set in the … Continue reading
The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan
The struggle for life after death has been a theme in science fiction for ages. From Frankenstein, to cryogenics in all its myriad permutations, to uploaded cyber-consciousness, to even, in a sense, generation star ships and other attempts to find … Continue reading
The Thousand Names by Django Wexler
Khandar, a colony of the Vordanai Empire, has rebelled. The empire’s colonial army has been kicked out of the capital city Ashe-Katarion by a coalition of the religious fanatics known as the Redeemers and Voltarai desert tribes led by the … Continue reading
Far Beyond Reality 