Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
Blope by Sean Benham My rating: 1 of 5 stars BLOPE is an sf story set in an alternate reality in which Taiwan (the Eternally Free Taiwan) is the world power, and its Emperor has won a big chunk of America in a Russian Roulette game against the US President. The Emperor decides to run […]
Read More Book Review: Sean Benham’s BlopeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars This isn’t my normal reading fare. What initially piqued my interest was the author’s ambitious attempt at creating a multimedia experience by linking in animated videos, pictures, lyrics and musical notes and performances. So I took a chance and accepted the request for a review. The art direction for […]
Read More Book Review: Shianshenka, the Rise and Fall of the Perfect Creation by Rowen SivertsenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars David Wolverton (better known by his pseudonym, David Farland) is a master of utilizing resonance in writing, a fact that is starkly evident in the Golden Queen. The book resonates strongly with the Star Wars mythos, which makes sense as Wolverton has written a number of Star Wars expanded […]
Read More Review: The Golden Queen, A Masterclass in ResonanceThe Mammoth Book of Nebula Awards SF by Kevin J. Anderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Put together an eclectic collection of Nebula award-winning short stories and novelettes, as well as a full length novella selected by Kevin J Anderson and you know you’re in for a treat. Each story is distinct in its […]
Read More Review: The Mammoth Book of Nebula SFDescartes (1637) statement, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ defined human subjectivity in a way none had before him. According to the pioneers of logic, the term ‘human’ was defined by the following logical equation: Animal + Speech = a speaking animal = human. According to Descartes statement, speech is not enough and indeed with the […]
Read More Cyborgs and CyberbodiesThe Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Knife of Never Letting Go. The cover is a clue to what this book is going to be like. The typography wouldn’t look out-of-place on a horror movie and looks like it was written with the tip of a knife, […]
Read More Review: The Knife of Never Letting GoMy regular readers and supporters will recognise the name Paul Davies as the artist behind the awesome new book cover for The Changeling King. I thought my followers and fans of fantasy fiction may like to know more about this rising star in fantasy art. Paul, let’s start with an obvious question, who is your […]
Read More Paul Davies: Fantasy ArtistContainment is hard science fiction. In fact some may even say that its more science than fiction. Much of this novel reads like a science textbook from the future. The cover features a futuristic city scape which has little to do with the actual storyline. The story follows young Arik’s coming of age and induction […]
Read More Review: ContainmentNekropolis: A Matt Richter Novel by Tim Waggoner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nekroplis is a strange concoction of genres. Its a detective story set in a fantasy background with every describable (and some indescribable)monster from horror featured in it. Its perhaps why it took Nekroplis so long to be taken up by a […]
Read More Review: Tim Waggoner’s Nekropolis