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Recent ReviewsThe Moon King by Neil Williamson 23 July 2014 Although The Moon King is accurately described by its publisher as a fantasy, it borrows tropes from many genres. The Revolutions by Felix Gilman 21 July 2014 The Revolutions is simultaneously a Sherlock Holmes-ish mystery thriller complete with secret societies of nefarious purpose, a surprising love letter to the golden age of science fiction, and a fantastical vision of England in the 1890s. No Harm Can Come to a Good Man by James Smythe 18 July 2014 The title of James Smythe's latest novel is taken from Socrates's Apology. It is clearly ironic, suggesting that disaster will indeed befall the novel’s supposed good guy protagonist, Laurence Walker. Motherless Child by Glen Hirshberg 16 July 2014 Motherless Child is a vampire novel that isn't much interested in vampires. Transformers: Age of Extinction 14 July 2014 Quite apart from anything else: the film is staggeringly monotonous and unengaging. It commits the worst sin of an action blockbuster. It's boring. Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge 11 July 2014 Cuckoo's Song is a changeling story told from the viewpoint of the changeling. 09 July 2014 There are better translations of Beowulf out there for pretty much any metric of "better" one prefers. We're entitled to ask: who is this book for? Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi 07 July 2014 If there is a villain in Oyeyemi's clever, bold retelling of Snow White, it's not the stepmother; it's the mirror. 04 July 2014 Even if In Your Eyes's script has problems coming together, its individual scenes show Whedon's talent for writing captivating characters and memorable dialogue. 02 July 2014 Above all, Lagoon is a love letter to Lagos, even if Okorafor's idiosyncratic method of expressing her love involves unleashing the destructive chaos of an alien invasion on the city. Short Fiction Snapshot #9: "A Dweller in Amenty" by Genevieve Valentine 30 June 2014 Genevieve Valentine's "A Dweller in Amenty" is two things: it is food, and it is parentheses. Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites by Hal Duncan 27 June 2014 Duncan doesn't seem at all interested in making the experience of reading his work easy on his readers. This is especially evident in most of the stories in Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites; as with the title characters themselves, appearances can be deceiving. The Making of Miasma by Henry Escaya 25 June 2014 It's rather surprising that SFF, a genre obsessed with innovative worldbuilding and socio-political environments, only infrequently explores what a truly "futuristic" drug might entail. The Making of Miasma, the first novel by Henry Escaya, serves up an interesting and hallucinatory answer. 23 June 2014 This drug-addled parable finds its footing in time to prove an exhilarating and moderately thoughtful thriller, if not the provocative piece promised. View older reviews in our Archive, thanks to the kindness of our authors who allow us to keep their material online. |
