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The Kept is the first novel of author James Scott. A bleak novel about revenge it has been drawing comparison to everything from True Grit to the works of Cormac McArthy. With starred reviews from Kirkus and Publisher’s Weekly James Scott looks like he is going to be an author […]
So, normally I try and not list whole series but with November and December typically being rather sparse in terms of new books I thought I would capitalize on this weeks release of The Chosen Seed, the third book in Sarah Pinborough’s Forgotten Gods series to highlight the whole series rather than just […]
OK, so Ian Tregillis’ Something More Than Night doesn’t release until December 3rd but, it being a holiday week and all, my choices of new books is fairly slim. What is it? I first read Ian Tregillis’ Bitter Seeds (a alternate-history fantasy set during World War 2 involving magic and Nazi […]
OK, so there isn’t a lot of terribly exciting new things being released this week so I’m taking a look back at a book that got released back in October, Orr: My Story by Bobby Orr.
Whether you’re pacing yourself with the HBO series or are eagerly chomping at the bit waiting for The Winds of Winter (come on George, write like the wind!) there are plenty of other wonderful fantasy series which feature the same kind of grit and maturity as George R. R. Martin’s […]
Check out this awesome article from the folks at Mashable on 8 phone/tablet application to make you a better reader: 8 Apps to Make You a Better Reader.
What do the National Book award, the Locus award, the Hugo award, The Nebula award, the World Fantasy award, and the PEN/Malamud award have in common? All of them (some multiple times) have been awarded to the fiction of author Ursula K. Le Guin. From fantasy and science fiction to […]
View in Catalog Read Sample Chapter What is it? Hugo Award winner Robert Charles Wilson (Spin) returns with Burning Paradise a near-future thriller set in a world just a bit different from our own.
What is it? Parasite , is a science-fiction/horror novel by Mira Grant (the Newsflesh trilogy). What’s it about? SymboGen has pioneered a genetically engineered tapeworm that bolsters the human immune system. Nearly everyone has one. When Sally Mitchell’s gets into a fatal accident (that isn’t an typo, she is brain dead) her […]