I am a huge fan of Nick Harkaway – all of his novels have a flow and a magic to them that’s difficult to quantify, but once you start you can’t put it down. One is never quite sure where it’s all going, but it’s such a good read, you figure it will all sort itself out at the end. Prior to starting Tigerman I was reading another book – which I will review in another post – but suffice it to say that […]
The Bestiary: A Smoothly Entertaining Read
Reading anything by Nicholas Christopher is like a smooth gliding ride. His stories flow, the prose is smooth, the tale unwinds, you don’t want to put it down and then it’s over… So pleasant, like a purring powerful car on a smooth road up the coast on a nice warm evening. Not a lot may happen on the ride, but it was very pleasant while it lasted. Nicholas Christopher’s first book was “A Trip to the Stars” – amazing and I need to re-read and […]
I need a Malediction……and some Aqua Regia
Full disclosure here – I met Richard Kadrey at ComicCon in July – got this SIGNED COPY of the book from him – oh YEAH. So yes, I am a total fanGirl. This is number 5 of the Sandman Slim series. Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, Aloha from Hell, The Devil Said Bang, Kill City Blues and now…Getaway God. James Stark IS Sandman Slim: “The Monster that kills Monsters” – he got sent “Downtown” (to Hell) by his “Sub Rosa” (magician) friends where he […]
The Gods are….Silly Buggers
Imagine, if you will, that the Classical Greek Gods were real and have continued in existence from those BCE times to now and are living in somewhat squalid circumstances in London. Imagine that they are a bit spoiled and out of sorts with the modern world and are forced to live together in a massive but decrepit London mansion for 400 years, gradually fading and losing their power. Imagine that they actually have to get day jobs to pay the bills: Aphrodite as a […]
Doing the Monster Shamble…
Shambling Towards Hiroshima – I had been wanting to read this for a very long time. The title, the cover…the premise. It’s kind of hard to find in hardcopy, but I finally found it on Kindle ebook and I had a gift card so there you go. It’s a quick read: our story starts out as our hero – Syms Thorley – is writing his memoir in a Baltimore Hotel after winning the “Raydo” – a Lifetime Achievement award for Major Science Fiction/Fantasy […]
The First Rule of Vampires is …That They Don’t Exist….
Bob Howard and the Laundry do Vampires. The first rule of vampires is that they don’t exist. But, if you find out that they do exist, then you are already dead or… part of the Laundry’s inner circle that knows these things. For those of you that haven’t read “The Laundry” series by Charles Stross – you might do best to start with “The Atrocity Archives” – (I reviewed that last week). Version 1.0 of the Laundry. This is kind of “version 5.0” and […]
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