Book Reviews
| Review of Frak You!: The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide to Battlestar Galactica | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | April 25, 2008 |
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Jo Storm's book is not a synopsis or recap of the first three seasons' worth of episodes, rather, it's a discussion of the larger themes within the episodes and throughout the series, relating it to much larger questions...
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| Review of The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 25, 2008 |
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Ellen Datlow's new anthology has some good work, and hints of what could be better but wasn't. It may appeal to a more literary reader...
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| Review of Unwelcome Bodies | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 24, 2008 |
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Jennifer Pelland can write very evocative stories, but the emotions she chooses to evoke in many of these stories are not those a reading looking for entertainment might seek...
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| Review of Ibby's Magic Weekend | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | March 20, 2008 |
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Ibby reunites with her cousins, only to discover that they've found a magic kit in the attic… a real magic kit…
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| Review of The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi, Volume 3 | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | February 29, 2008 |
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A very satisfying conclusion to the three-volume story arc. Still with gorgeous art, and a much faster-paced story...
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| Review of Galaxy Blues | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | February 28, 2008 |
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The newest installment in the Coyote series takes us from a rigid Earth to a free Coyote to an even bigger alien civilization, with a side trip or two into mortal peril...
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| Review of Marseguro | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | February 15, 2008 |
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Edward Willett's Marseguro takes an "If this Goes On" approach to a hidden daughter colony under the comforting waters of an alien planet, and does a good job of it...
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| Review of Shatterday | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | February 5, 2008 |
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Harlan Ellison knows how to tell a story, and in this book, if you've ever met him, you'll hear his voice telling you these wonderful, horrific stories. You'll definitely want him to continue...
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| Review of Capitol Hell | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 25, 2008 |
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Pete Von Sholly's Capitol Hell is a digital cut-and-paste masterpiece, skewering politicians and would-bes in the horror films they might truly have inspired...
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| Review of Hebrew Punk | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 24, 2008 |
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While we're frequently looking for alien cultures to mine for fiction, an oft-overlooked mythos is Judaism. Lavie Tidhar mines Jewish mythology to combine with western fantasy, and the result is very good...
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| Review of Dark Integers and Other Stories | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 17, 2008 |
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Greg Egan's collection isn't pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-chair action, but it is brain-pounding, depths of your mind fiction, and it's good...
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| Review of The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi, Volume 2 | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | January 10, 2008 |
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This one is a little more disjointed than volume one was, but we may be able to attribute that to being the middle book of a trilogy. The art is still fantastic...
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| Review of Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 21, 2007 |
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A graphic novel for children (the publisher says aged 9-12), it's a good fantastical adventure story...
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| Review of The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi, Volume 1 | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 21, 2007 |
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Perhaps it's translating the first third of a novel into graphic novel form, but the story didn't hold me as it should. The art work, however, is amazing...
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| Review of The Future We Wish We Had | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 12, 2007 |
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Full of good, workmanlike stories that serve the theme admirable, this volume left me melancholy...
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| Review of The Sleepy Truth #1 | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | December 10, 2007 |
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The cover screams "lurid tabloid," but the art inside is something else—far more sophisticated—even though the target audience is younger. I liked it a lot...
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| Review of The Middleman: The Third Volume: Inescapability | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 30, 2007 |
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It was named one of the best graphic novels for teens, but it works just fine for an adult who knows who super-secret-spy stuff. I'd loved it...
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| Review of The River Horses by Allen Steele | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 29, 2007 |
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A great in-between piece to Steele's growing Coyote saga, this one fits between the second and third books, and is well worth reading...
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| Review of The Anubis Murders by Gary Gygax | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 28, 2007 |
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Gary Gygax turned from role-playing game design to writing, and this novel is part of the results. It definitely shows his background, but tells an engrossing story of a detective in a magical world...
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| Review of The Underworld Railroad | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 27, 2007 |
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Graphic novels are books, too, and while this one isn't heavenly, it's a hell of a good time...
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| Review of The Four Redheads of the Apocalypse | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | November 13, 2007 |
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A chapbook by four fun-loving, readheaded authors, tells us a little bit about raising hell while looking good...
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| Review of The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | August 29, 2007 |
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The classic collection by the master of the short story, now available in collectible limited editions. Could it be any better?...
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| Review of Eye of the Beholder by Shari Shattuck | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | August 20, 2007 |
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Shari Shattuck's novel of a psychic and her psychic son's coming of age in a new community is "a quick, fun read..."
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| Review of Brave New Words edited by Jeff Prucher | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | August 15, 2007 |
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Jeff Prucher has produced the Oxford English Dictionary's subset on science fictional words, and he's done an excellent job with it. It's more than just a dictionary, with essays...
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| Review of Plague Year by Jeff Carlson | |
| Opinion > Book Reviews | August 10, 2007 |
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Jeff Carlson's first novel, Plague Year, is a good story of a potential danger that may be staring at us today. It's alternately depressing and worrisome, but worth reading...
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