Forty-five years ago, Ursula K. Le Guin laid the foundation for what is now the modern wizard in fantasy in A Wizard of Earthsea. It is a coming-of-age tale of Ged, a ‘chosen’ young man from the island of Gont, with wizards, dragons, and demons plentiful. What’s that you say? A young man with dreams…
Review – Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough
Jo Fletcher Books is publisher to many good authors, including Tom Pollock, Snorri Kristjansson, and one Sarah Pinborough. Sarah is author to many dark stories, including her Dog Faced Gods horror series, as well as rewritten fairy tales, one being Poison (Snow White) and another being Beauty (Sleeping Beauty). I’ve yet to read any of her other work, so…
Giveaway – The Darwin Elevator by Jason M. Hough (US/CAN only)
In preparation for the July 30th, 2013 release of Jason M. Hough’s debut novel, The Darwin Elevator (review), A Bitter Draft and Random House/Del Rey have teamed up for a giveaway of one paperback copy of the book! Here’s the blurb: “In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has…
Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge – WWEnd
(This post is tough to repair to presentability after the migration from Blogger to WP, I apologize.) So I’m only half a year late to the party, but I decided to jump on board and participate in Worlds Without End’s 2013 Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge. The challenge is to read 12 books by…
Book Haul and Upcoming Reads
I’ve been pretty slow on reading recently and I can’t really say why, as I don’t know myself. At any rate, I’ve got a haul of recent books and ARCS that look promising. Aidan Harte’s Irenicon was one that I won in a contest from the awesome people over at Jo Fletcher, and the book has…