I’ve been meaning to read Elizabeth Bear for some time now, and after taking up Worlds Without End‘s Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, Range of Ghosts came out on top of that list. I was almost put off immediately after reading the first few pages – the premise is great, but the prose seemed uncomfortably…
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…
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…
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…
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the 10-part epic Shadows of the Apt. I read the first, Empire in Black and Gold, after much hesitation due to the strange concept. I could not have been more pleasantly surprised, as the book and its followup, Dragonfly Falling, were both fantastic. Pat: Hello Adrian and welcome to A…
