Books

Fans of Glen Cook and the Darkwar trilogy, it is time to rejoice. No longer will you need to hunt down the individual copies of Doomstalker, Warlock, and Ceremony when the urge to read a fantasy sci-fi hybrid hits. Night Shade Books has released the Read More

In this first of three installments, we are introduced to Samuil Petrovitch, a smartass Russian physics genius with a shady past who accidentally puts himself in the middle of two warring crime syndicates in a post-nuclear Armageddon London. That could Read More

Knowledge is power, and Eric Grzymkowski delivers some mightily strange empowerment with this collection of 1,001 weird and documented facts. Read More

Whacky, wise, or wondrous, wizards play an important role in fantasy and fantasy-derived genre fiction. Along with the young hero on a quest and the evil overlord, wizards are one of the most common archetypes of fantasy fiction. Let’s get a good list Read More

One of the most popular genres in recent years has been Urban Fantasy. In this installment of Defining the Genre, I discuss its definitions and major themes as well as how it fits in with other subgenres of Fantasy. Read More

It's been a while since a young adult book series has been both wildly popular and exceptionally well written. The Hunger Games fills both of those requirements and is well on its way to becoming a major motion picture series. This week's Fan Art Friday Read More

High Fantasy is probably one of the most recognizable subgenres of Fantasy. It may go by a few names — Epic Fantasy or the Hero's Quest — but in the end most people can name at least a series or two from this subgenre. Read More

The Windup Girl is a superb book, certainly one of the best I have read in a long time. The writing style is vivid, lush, exotic. Read More

A medieval story of witchcraft and torture, a historical murder mystery written by a descendant of the family featured in the book — I have to admit I was interested. I don't usually like to buy into hype, but the price was right. Well, sometimes you Read More

First things first: if this book even looks remotely appealing to you, read Oryx and Crake first. The Year of the Flood is less of a follow-up to the post-viral-apocalypse than a parallel of the first book. You could read it independently, but there are Read More

Will McIntosh does a brilliant job with his debut novel. Soft Apocalypse is the chronicle of the collapse of the world shown through the eyes and perspective of Jasper, the twenty-something protagonist of this apocalyptic tale. Read More

Robots and Empire is very different from Asimov's other Robot Novels. This time around, instead of a mystery requiring Lije's acute observational and deductive skills, the plot of the novel revolves around the political struggle over colonization of the Read More