Speculative Fiction – Page 83 – Cannonball Read 17

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

February 8, 2022 by TylerDFC 9 Comments

Joe Tournier is an amnesiac living in the French colony of England in 1898. His first memory is of stepping off a train platform in London after arriving from Glasgow with no memory of who he is. He has recurring and fleeting memories of a woman named Madeline, a lighthouse, a man on a beach, and a sense that something is wrong. He is taken to an asylum and a doctor diagnoses him with a rare form of epilepsy, one that has afflicted hundreds of […]

A Moody and Mysterious YA Graphic Novel That Also Somewhat Frustrated Me

Fly by Night by Tara O'Connor

February 5, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

I picked this up somewhat randomly at Barnes & Noble, who have happily broken out their YA graphic novels into their own section at the store I go to, so I don’t have to dig through the whole YA section anymore. It makes me really happy to be living through this renaissance of graphic novels, and I’m excited to see it continue expanding. Fly by Night is a good example of the interesting work that’s being done now, and it was an enjoyable read. Dee’s […]

The Big Book of Ghost Stories

The Big Book of Ghost Stories by Otto Penzler editor

February 2, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Another of the Otto Penzler books of collected stories, this book takes on the ghost story in fiction of the last 150 or so years. So, for example, we’re not getting Hamlet or The Castle of Otranto or anything like that. The collection still mostly focuses on stories written for magazine publication primarily, and this means tha a lot of stories were originally published in various pulp magazines in the 1930s or thereabouts, but different from the more noir collections, we end up with a […]

Old Magic, Old Story Style

Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories by Diana Wynne Jones

February 1, 2022 by Ale 2 Comments

One of the things I always find fascinating about reading short story collections by authors who’ve had a very long career is to see the growth and change of their style over time. Unexpected Magic by Diana Wynne Jones is no exception. The collection has stories published from throughout her career, from as early as the 1960s to the early 2000s. Not in any particular order, the stories range from speculative tales of authors so lost in their work it becomes real to cats telling their […]

I am become Death

Atomic Dreams: Prayer Cycle Edition by Jazan Wild

January 28, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This is an almost 900-word review. But all you need to know are the first few paragraphs. If you wish to read the whole thing, be my guest! But know a lot goes on in the books and a lot went into the review. These books are 3.5 to 4. They are some of the most horrible, gut-wrenching, disgusting books I have ever read. And I want to reread them. I want to shout to everyone READ THESE!! The horror of the “mistress” that is […]

Talking cats, cute girls, and lizard men (and women)

Sithrah V01 Kingdom of the Air by Jason Brubaker

reMIND: Volume 1 by Jason Brubaker

January 28, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I debated on reviewing Sithrah V01 Kingdom of the Air by Jason Brubaker. I found this fascinating series recently on WebToons. It is completed; therefore, this is one of the reasons I decided to tell you about Sithrah as you can find it there. But I found that the publisher should have copies, too, so find your local independent bookstore and make an order! At first, this story is simple and almost “girly” in format. I was not sure I wanted to finish it. Who […]

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