Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (2006) – Sometimes you have to pick up a book you loved from your childhood just to restore your faith in good literature (or what you considered good). A Wrinkle in Time, Canticle for Leibowitz, Moon of Three Rings, any of the Zenna Henderson stuff are all childhood friends of mine. I hadn’t read Something Wicked since I was a kid, and I was a little afraid it wasn’t as good as I remembered or perhaps hadn’t […]
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Superhero Anthology!
Superhero Monster Hunter – The Good Fight edited by Thom Brannan and Miles Boothe (2015, 557 pages) Full disclosure: I do have something in this thirty-three story anthology, but as usual, in the name of false modesty, I will not review it. The other stories, however, are fair game. With this many stories, I will only critique my favorites (for a longer review that includes all the stories, see Amazon), but I can’t promise brevity if the story is really good. Red Fog by Greg […]
In a Show with Everything but Yul Brenner
The Day of The Dissonance by Alan Dean Foster (1984, 292 pages) – This fantasy adventure has a lot going for it. First of all, it’s written by one of the best. Alan Dean Foster, whether writing great science fiction (“Nor Crystal Tears” is autographed and on my Read Forever shelf or a film adaptation (I think his “Abyss” is much better than the movie), is a master when it comes to grabbing you by the lapels and yanking you into whatever world he’s writing […]
Igor, This Isn’t Ketchup, Is It?
These Vampires Still Don’t Sparkle Edited by Carol Hightshoe (2014, 245 pages) – A sequel to These Vampires Don’t Sparkle, this collection of various vampire tales contains a short story by my daughter, Botheri43, so I’ll skip that one to appear unbiased in my review. This collection contains some interesting and entertaining ideas about vampires, and I enjoyed reading it even though I haven’t read a vampire book since Dracula. As usual, I’ll deal with each story individually, and skip any poems as they seem […]
Put Your Hands Up or I’ll Use This Deadly Book
Libriomancer by James C. Hines (2012, 346 pages) – When my children recommend books, I usually give them a try. They are much better at knowing what I like than I am. (They don’t always like what I recommend, but their tastes are just going to have to improve in that area.) This book, recommended by my youngest, is definitely right up my alley. I love little homages and Easter egg references, and this book is full of delightful ones. The poor hero, able to […]
I Can’t Come In Right Now, Mom; the Planet Wants Me to Play
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov (1989, 386 pages) – Sometimes I forget that the Grand Master did more than give us social psychologists predicting the far future and robots finding themselves. He was also a wizard at creating characters you really care about. In this science fiction novel, independent from all his others, we see the colonization of an unknown nearby sun, appropriately called Nemesis, through the eyes of a family. The mother, a driven scientist from one of the orbiting Earth settlements who discovers Nemesis, […]
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