Review: Purgatory by Tim Dodge
In Purgatory, by Tim Dodge, Charles Cunningham joins forces with Edgar Allan Poe and a mysterious character named Billy to win his salvation and gain admittance to heaven. To accomplish this, they...
View ArticleBook Review: Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher
Seven Wonders In the bustling coastal California city of San Ventura, there is an uneasy tension between the Cowl, supervillain extraordinaire, and the Seven Wonders, the resident superhero group....
View ArticleBook Review: Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick
Drothe is a Nose. In a city of thieves, his role is as an information gatherer and curator for his employer, a roughhewn boxer of an Upright Man (think mob boss) called Nicco. It’s a decent life,...
View ArticleBook Review: Babylon Steel by Gaie Sebold
Babylon is the madam of a brothel in Scalentine. Scalentine has two moons, and is a hub of the multiverse, with portals to many other worlds. As such, a madam of a brothel who is also a good swordsman...
View ArticleBook Review: Geekomancy by Michael R Underwood
As a barista at a cafe/comic book store in a fictional California college town, Ree Reyes has a pretty typical life for a genre geek. Talk with the regulars about the latest Watchmen prequel, gather...
View ArticleReview: Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris #1) by Jim C. Hines
This book is a love letter. Within its pages, books are magic. They come alive. Libriomancy allows certain gifted individuals to pull forth objects from the pages of books and use them in our world....
View ArticleBook Review: Walk the Fire, edited by John Mierau
Thematic Shared-world anthologies used to be, once upon a time, all the rage, and one of my favorite forms of genre reading. Wild Cards, Thieves World, Heroes in Hell, Forever After, Time Gate, the...
View ArticleReview: Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye. It illuminated three hunched figures. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice...
View ArticleBook Review: The Mirror Prince by Violette Malan
A familiar skeleton of a tale. A lost ruler or aspirant to rule of a magical land has been banished, and lost his allies, friends and even his memory. He lives his life on Earth, unaware of his true...
View ArticleReview: Broken by A.E. Rought
The beautifully written novel, Broken by A.E. Rought takes the reader through a modern retelling of Frankesntein with a twist of Romeo and Juliet. The story begins in a cemetery, where the lonely...
View ArticleBook Review: Shadowlands, by Violette Malan
The Lands of Faerie, after a struggle and a near-death experience, have a true High Prince again. The rule of the false Basilisk Prince is over, and the long process of healing the damage caused by...
View ArticleReview: Mad Scientist’s Daughter by Cassandra Rose Clarke
In The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, Cassandra Rose Clarke weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss centered around the life of Cat and her strange relationship with her father’s assistant, an android...
View ArticleTuesday Serial: Free Serialized Fiction
Every Tuesday, readers can find free serialized fiction via the Tuesday Serial website. Authors post links to their new and ongoing series using the site’s collector, and the following day a report is...
View ArticleBook Review: Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole
It’s been rough for Oscar Britton, Army officer turned Sorcerous Operations Corps portamancer turned outlaw selfer. After the chaos of his escape from the U.S. Army base in The Source, living life on...
View ArticleBook Review: Space Magic by David Levine
Space Magic by David Levine, a collection of fifteen short stories, combines a variety of award winning genre fiction. Tales of magic and science, ghost stories and fairies, exist side by side in...
View ArticleBook Review: The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
To create the ultimate forgery, what you need is, unsurprisingly, is the ultimate forger. And when the forgery is of the arcane variety, to forge and affix a stricken emperor’s very soul, who better...
View ArticleBook Review: Lies and Prophecy, Marie Brennan
Welton University is a leading University in the wilds of Minnesota. Much like the isolated and bucolic University of Minnesota at Morris, Welton University has a rustic setting that takes full...
View ArticleBook Review: The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman
The Rise of Ransom City by Felix Gilman takes us into a world torn apart by war between two immortal forces, the Line and the Gun. Amid the chaos, Harry Ransom seeks to escape his humble and tragic...
View ArticleBook Review: No Return by Zachary Jernigan
No Return by Zachary Jernigan On the planet of Jeroun, every ten years, the followers and detractors of the god Adrash meet in a grand martial arts tournament in the city of Danoor. It is an...
View ArticleBook Review: Consumption by Patrick Hester
Consumption by Patrick Hester is a charmingly creepy short story of life beyond death in the Wild West. John Henry has just arrived from Georgia to attend the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery...
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