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The Urban Fantasy Anthology – Peter S. Beagle & Joe R. Lansdale

September 5, 2011 4 Comments

About the book Star-studded and comprehensive,this imaginative anthology brings a myriad of modern fantasy voices under oneroof. Previously difficult for readers to discover in its new modes, urbanfantasy is represented here in all three of its distinct styles—playful newmythologies, sexy paranormal romances, and gritty urban noir. Whether theyfeature tattooed demon-hunters, angst-ridden vampires, supernatural gumshoes,or pixelated…

Low Town – Daniel Polansky

August 16, 2011 0 Comments

About the book Drug dealers, hustlers,brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus,the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an uglyplace, and its champion is an ugly man….

Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons

July 29, 2011 0 Comments

Aboutthe book THEPAST… Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is oneof the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp.Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil farolder, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves… THEPRESENT… Compelled by the encounter to…

Palimpsest – Catherynne M. Valente

June 21, 2011 3 Comments

About the Book Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse—a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the…

Thirteen Years Later – Jasper Kent

April 25, 2011 1 Comment

About the Book In the summer of 1812, before the Oprichniki came to the help of Mother Russia in her fight against Napoleon, one of their number overheard a conversation between his master, Zmyeevich, and another of their number. He learns of a feud, an unholy grievance between Zmyeevich and the Romanov dynasty that began…

Twelve – Jasper Kent

March 21, 2011 2 Comments

About the Book The voordalak–creature of legend, the tales of which have terrified Russian children for generations. But for Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov–a child of more enlightened times–it is a legend that has long been forgotten. Besides, in the autumn of 1812, he faces a more tangible enemy: the Grande Armee of Napoleon Bonaparte. City…

The Sea Thy Mistress – Elizabeth Bear

January 27, 2011 1 Comment

About the Book This direct sequel to Elizabeth Bear’s highly acclaimed All the Windwracked Stars picks up the story some fifty years after Muire went into the sea and became the new Bearer of Burdens. Beautiful Cathoair, now an immortal warrior angel, has been called back to the city of Eiledon to raise his son–Muire’s son as…

The Broken Kingdoms – N.K. Jemisin

November 16, 2010 3 Comments

About the Book In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies…

The Escapement – K.J. Parker

October 16, 2010 3 Comments

Read my review for the first two books in the Engineer Trilogy: Devices and Desires and Evil for Evil. I’ve heard the term “I like it so much it hurts” before but I’ve always thought it was a rather stupid turn of phrase. How can you like something so much it hurts? Ridiculous. However, I may…

In the Shadow of Swords – Val Gunn

October 15, 2010 8 Comments

About this Book When legendary killer Ciris Sarn ends a life in an empty city plaza with a single dagger thrust, little does he know that an insidious game has been triggered by the brutal slaying. Turning predator into prey, this part fantasy, part espionage novel races along as it follows the now hunted Sarn across…