Blog in Exile: Reviews for 6/18
Monday, March 17th, 2008The Kansas City Star reviews Brian Aldiss’s HARM and David Anthony Durham’s Acacia.
Fantasy Book Critic reviews Rebecca Stott’s Ghostwalk.
Fantasy Book Spot reviews Elizabeth Bear’s collection New Amsterdam. [via Neth Space, the reviewer in question]
OF Blog of the Fallen reviews Alan Campbell’s Scar Night.
SciFi Weekly reviews Tim Scott’s Outrageous Fortune.
Scott Edelman’s current column at SciFi Weekly is all about Barry N. Malzberg’s Breakfast in the Ruins (which I was reading myself about a month ago).
SF Site had a mid-June update, and the new things include:
a review of John J. Miller’s Death Draws Fivea review of M. John Harrison’s Nova Swinga review of Tony Richards’s Going Backa review of Timothy Zahn’s Star Wars: Allegiance a review of William Browning Spencer’s The Ocean and All Its DevicesJeff VanderMeer’s “Dispatches from Smaragdine” columnand Neil Walsh’s “Overlooked or Over-Hyped” column, in which he takes on Dhalgren.Strange Horizons takes on Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind.
New at Tangent Online this week:
a review of Interzone #210a review of Vera Nazarian’s collection The Salt of the Airand a review of Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy, edited by W.H. Horner.New at Green Man Review:
this review of 1997’s The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, Tenth Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windlinga review of Tobias S. Buckell’s new novel Ragamuffina review of Neal Asher’s Gridlinkeda review of Poppy Z. Brite’s Antediluvian Talesa review of Ellen Klages’s YA novel The Green Glass Seaa review of Salamanda Drake’s Dragonsdalea review of Worldcon Guest of Honor Speeches, edited by Mike Resnick and Joe Siclaria review of Carol Emshwiller’s The Secret Citya review of E.E. Knight’s Valentine’s Exilea review of Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invinciblea review of an entire Amanda Hemingway trilogya review of Ian MacDonald’s Brasyland plenty of other stuff as well.New reviews on Don D’Amassa’s Science Fiction page this week include Karl Scroeder’s Queen of Candescence, an audiobook version of Dune, and more.
And, on D’Amassa’s Fantasy page, you’ll find other new reviews.
D’Amassa’s Horror page features new reviews, as well.
At Blogcritics, they have:
a review of Madsen Pirie’s Dark Visitor and Children of the Nighta review of Holly Lisle’s Midnight Raina review of Laini Taylor’s Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer.Book Fetish reviews Guy Gavriel Kay’s Ysabel.
This week’s Publishers Weekly fiction reviews include collections by Sheila Finch and Bruce Sterling; novels by Brandon Sanderson, Ben Bova, and Diana L. Paxson; and Scott Lynch’s pirate extravaganza Red Seas Under Red Skies.
PW’s childrens’ book reviews for this week include YA fantasy novels by Emma Layborn and Jeffrey Kluger, among other things.
And the PW web-exclusive reviews this week include Julie Kenner’s Demons Are Forever, the Fantasy anthology from Wallace and Tremblay, and Jack Ketchum’s Joyride.
The Davis Enterprise reviews Robert J. Sawyer’s Rollback. [via Sawyer]
Kate Nepveu reviews Brandon Sanderson’s debut novel Elantris.
Visions of Paradise reviews A. Bertram Chandler’s classic (well, that might be stretching it — but it’s old and it’s still an enjoyable read) novel Far Traveler.