Recent ReviewsA Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti 08 February 2010 To reveal my hand before delving any deeper, the recent collection within SF of which this book most reminded me was Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners. The Beast with Nine Billion Feet by Anil Menon 05 February 2010 Ideology, for all its apparent abstraction, tends to be personal; and differences in ideology are often woven into the very fabric of family relations, accentuating other differences. 03 February 2010 It is, of course, far easier to make a triffid walk on the page than on the screen. Tales from the Mabinogion: The Ninth Wave by Russell Celyn Jones and White Ravens by Owen Sheers 01 February 2010 With the change of setting, both authors have replaced the magical, the fantastic, the outlandish and the weird with determinedly rationalist explanations. Love Puppets and other webcomics by Jessica McLeod and Edward J. Grug III 29 January 2010 If I jumped right in and described the webcomics of Jessica McLeod and Edward J. Grug III as "cute," I feel certain a large percentage of readers would sigh wearily, roll their eyes, and click away to some other portion of the phantasmagorical extravaganza that is the Strange Horizons website. The 2009 David Gemmell Legend Award Shortlist, Part Two 27 January 2010 Even if, or perhaps especially if, some of the popular choices don't exactly track with the definition—as is certainly the case with this first shortlist—having a theme provides plenty of hooks for further discussion and food for thought. Shortlist Review: The 2009 David Gemmell Legend Award, Part One 25 January 2010 What do they mean by “in the spirit of David Gemmell”? According to the same webpage, what they are looking for is something that grabs the reader immediately, with pace (“you know, books that you're STILL reading at three in the morning!”), characters to root for, and convincing world-building. Stories, in other words, that take hold and won't let go until the final page—the reason we all started reading fantasy in the first place.
22 January 2010 Margaret Ronald's second Evie Scelan novel, Wild Hunt, continues to showcase the author's talent for combining drama, chills, and hilarity into a compulsively readable caper. 20 January 2010 Though one of Campbell's lesser-known works, Cast a Deadly Spell was ahead of its time in many respects, featuring stylistic and narrative elements that would become standard in many future genre productions. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood and The Rapture by Liz Jensen 18 January 2010 There are far more similarities between The Year Of The Flood and The Rapture than I was expecting. Two Views: Doctor Who, "The End of Time" 15 January 2010 Tony Keen: In many ways, it is emblematic of Davies' entire five-year stint on the show—bits of it are good, and bits of it aren't.
13 January 2010 Holmes is, in short, the closest thing to a King Arthur or a Robin Hood that the modern age has produced. He is, despite a canonical body of accomplished literature, a creature of the popular imagination, endlessly refigured and—key, this—re-energised. The Other Lands by David Anthony Durham 11 January 2010 The Other Lands is a more confident, more exuberant, and more unusual epic fantasy than The War with the Mein, but loses none of its predecessor's scope or familiar pleasures. View older reviews in our Archive, thanks to the kindness of our authors who allow us to keep their material online. |