SF/F: Earthlight by Bevan Knight

January 26, 2022 admin 0

The second book in Bevan Knight’s “Seeds of Time” trilogy, Earthlight, follows a family struggling with the difficulties of the 21st century. The difficulties are compounded when they encounter the extraterrestrial Croans. Knight depicts the harsh realities of what may await humanity in the near future, specifically near the end of the 21st century, including difficult conditions people must endure, the trials and tribulations unfolding in their lives, something that is compounded by the arrival […]

Alchemy of Glass

SF/F: Alchemy of Glass by Barbara Barnett

August 19, 2020 admin 0

Alchemy of Glass, the sequel to Barbara Barnett’s Bram Stoker Award-nominated The Apothecary’s Curse, connects an epidemic in 1826 London, the fatal disease of a young girl in modern Chicago, and an ancient ruined monastery. These three things converge to threaten a catastrophic future. In the catacombs of the monastery, hidden away in the Eildon Hills of Scotland, a land of myth and mystery—the place where immortal apothecary Gaelan Erceldoune found sanctuary as a lad—Gaelan […]

The Gates of Avalon

SF/F: Path of the Ghost Warrior by Karl R. Krueger

July 22, 2020 admin 0

The Gates of Avalon: Path of the Ghost Warrior  by Karl R. Krueger creates a world disappearing thousands of centuries before our time. “The old ones” have left behind five great artifacts. These artifacts act as seemingly harmless gates until the mighty warriors of Asgaard fall in a night, as the gates unleash blood and flames. The empire knows that the darkness has swallowed them and they do not stand a chance against this new […]

War of the Witches

SF/F: Rise Of The Snow Queen Book Two: The War Of The Witches by G.W. Mullins

May 18, 2020 admin 0

Author, G.W. Mullins, follows up his debut adult dark fantasy Rise Of The Snow Queen Book One: The Polar Bear King, with the second book in a four-part series. What begins as a simple bittersweet tale about a man turned into a polar bear, grandly unfolds into a rich, mythical adventure in the bestselling Rise Of The Snow Queen series. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, author G.W. Mullins expands on the story, creating […]

Piers Anthony

SF/F: Relationships 8 by Piers Anthony

April 23, 2020 admin 0

Relationships 8 is the eighth volume in an ongoing series by one of the most popular science fiction/fantasy authors of all time, Piers Anthony. The stories in Relationships 8 plum some of the Anthony’s favorite territory. In a story about an android in the form of a beautiful woman who achieves consciousness and makes the most of it, to the dismay of the company boss. Another story about a mother who means to repay a […]

SF/F: Synthetic Dawns & Crimson Dusks by Pedro Iniguez

March 27, 2020 admin 0

Author Pedro Iniguez feels his new collection, Synthetic Dawns & Crimson Dusks, “will leave you inspired, unsettled or just plainly horrified but is sure to entertain you at the very least.” Says Iniguez: “The stories in this collection all have something to say to whoever will stop and listen for a while. They inhabit the realms of Science-Fiction and Horror. Others exist in that dark space where the line is blurred. They are intended as […]

SF/F: Samuil and the Legendary Snow Owl by Randall Stephens

December 5, 2019 admin 0

  This first volume’s magical crescendo should create loyal readers who will return for more fairy tale–style grandeur.” — Kirkus Reviews In the 1840s, P’etro Fedorchak narrowly escapes death while fighting for Russia in the Allied Shadow War. After receiving a land grant for his heroic services. He marries Ilia, a girl he saved from stampeding horses, and relocates to the shores of the enchanted Black Sea. The family cabin is near the edge of […]

SF/F: The Book of Flora by Meg Elison

July 8, 2019 Linda L. Richards 0

“Last night I dreamt I was back in Nowhere again.” The first line of The Book of Flora (47 North), the concluding book in Meg Elison’s Nowhere Trilogy, evokes Daphne DuMaurier’s beloved Rebecca. The reminder to that book comes both in the meter of the first line in both works (“Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again”) but also in a ghostly poetry that haunts both books. Despite Elison’s almost show and tell […]

SF/F Grand Master Harlan Ellison Dies at 84

June 28, 2018 admin 0

The world of science fiction lost a hero on Wednesday when Harlan Ellison passed away. His wife, Susan Toth, said the 84-year-old writer died in his sleep at his home in Sherman Oaks, California. On Twitter, author Stephen King said, “Harlan Ellison: There was no one quite like him in American letters, and never will be. Angry, funny, eloquent, hugely talented. If there’s an afterlife, Harlan is already kicking ass and taking down names.” From […]

SF/F: Dark Matter  by Blake Crouch

July 22, 2016 Tony Buchsbaum 1

You’ve Never Read Anything Like Dark Matter. There. I said it. The new novel by Blake Crouch, is a terrifying, enthralling, lightning-fast, brilliant book. You have no idea how much I want to write about it. I want to tell you everything about it, but that would spoil everything, and that would be very, very bad. Because Dark Matter is the kind of book you want to know absolutely nothing about. Further, to get the […]