Posts tagged with ‘SF’
March 13, 2012
TERROR AND ADVENTURE in a virtual world filled with digital clones of history’s tyrants and psychopaths. Wow!
Grade: A MINUS
THE DEMI-MONDE: WINTER
William Morrow
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Alternate History, Novels, Science Fiction, SF
March 3, 2012
COMPLEX, ULTRA-SMART PARANORMAL thriller takes us inside an epidemic where people are possessed by angry ghosts.
Grade: B PLUS
HITCHERS
Night Shade Books
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Novels, Paranormal, SF, Thriller
December 6, 2011
STEAMPUNK FANTASY SPACE OPERA offers magic swords, copper robots, and interplanetary travel. Third in a series.
Grade: SOLID B
THE RISE OF THE IRON MOON
Tor
2011
Tags: Fantasy, Novels, SF, Solid B Reviews
May 29, 2011
MASTER OF SPEC-FIC SILLINESS Tom Holt brings us another delightfully funny romp of magic and muddled dimensions.
Grade: B PLUS
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF SAUSAGES
Orbit
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Fantasy, Humor, Novels, SF
March 27, 2011
GRACEFUL, ADAGIO PROSE and a memorable heroine in this tale of a young scientist’s Alice-in-Wonderland life.
Grade: B PLUS
THE HOUSE OF DISCARDED DREAMS
Prime
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, SF
February 27, 2011
CULTURE CLASHES, NANOTECHNOLOGY are flashpoints for this suspenseful SF novel set in a near-future Istanbul.
Grade: B PLUS
THE DERVISH HOUSE
Pyr
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, SF, Suspense
February 13, 2011
SMART THRILLER with a fast pace, an SF twist, and a warm-hearted portrayal of its almost-human protagonist.
Grade: B PLUS
LUCY
Knopf
2010
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, SF, Thriller
May 28, 2009
SPOOKY TALE outlines a grim near-future in spare, simple language reminiscent of Palahniuk, early Stephen King. A MINUS
THE SUICIDE COLLECTORS by David Oppegaard
New York: St. Martin’s Press
December 2008
Grade: A MINUS
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Horror, Novels, Science Fiction, SF
May 21, 2009
TRIPPY, thoughtful virtual-space saga with cool plot twists, plenty of flash and flair. Williams’s best so far. SOLID A
IMPLIED SPACES by Walter Jon Williams
San Francisco: Night Shade Books
June, 2008
Grade: SOLID A
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, SF, Solid A Reviews