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Reviews for 5/21

The current iteration of Green Man Review is an "all books edition," including:

  • a review of Richard K. Morgan's Woken Furies
  • a review of Kelly Link's collection Magic for Beginners
  • a review of Joe R. Landsale's collection The Shadows, Kith and Kin
  • a review of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next: First Among Sequels (coming soon from the SFBC)
  • a review of The Gypsy by Steven Brust and Megan Lindholm
  • a review of Steven Erikson's "Malazan" novella The Lees of Laughter's End
  • a review of Kage Baker's The Sons of Heaven, the climactic novel in her great "Company" series (which you can also get in the exclusive SFBC omnibus The Company They Keep, coming very soon)
  • a review of the new Gardner Dozois-Jonathan Strahan original anthology The New Space Opera
  • and several others...

Woken Furies 

SciFi Weekly reviews Lawrence Watt-Evans's The Ninth Talisman.

New at Tangent Online:

  • a review of the 22nd issue of Abyss & Apex
  • a review of Darker Matter #3
  • a review of the July issue of Asimov's
  • and a review of the first issue of the revamped Weird Tales (#344).

From the July issue of Asimov's comes Paul Di Filippo's On Books column, in which he looks at Liz Jensen's My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time (which Di Filippo mentions noticing because it was in a SFBC catalog), as well as Jensen's previous novels, a book about Jules Verne's centennial, several magazines and comics, and Luis Royo's art book Dark Labyrinth.

Dark Labyrinth

New on Don D'Amassa's page of Science Fiction reviews this past week are David Lynn Golemon's Legend, Jeff Carlson's Plague Year, and the reissue of Mike Resnick's Ivory.

And, of D'Amassa's Fantasy page, the new reviews are J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Hurin, The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks (coming soon from the SFBC), Deepwood by Jennfer Roberson (also coming soon from the SFBC), Poltergeist by Kat Richardson, and a number of YA novels.

Children of Hurin  

And D'Amassa's Horror page also has two new reviews this week: Unholy Birth by Andrew Neiderman and Shadow Coast by Philip Haldane.

One of my potted Google searches insists that this January Magazine list of the best SF/Fantasy of 2002 was posted today. I find that hard to believe, but who am I to argue with Google? The list includes such worthy books as Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, Kage Baker's Black Projects, White Knights, and Peter F. Hamilton's Fallen Dragon, which are all just as worth reading today as they were five years ago.

The Times-Leader (of Northeastern Pennsylvania) reviews Sara Douglass's The Serpent Bride.

Michael Dirda reviews World Fantasy Award-winner Haruki Murakami's new novel After Dark in The Washington Post.

Eve's Alexandria reviews Manda Scott's Boudicca: Dreaming the Eagle.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews Lane Robbins's Maledicte.

New at Fantasybookspot:

  • a review of Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Obsidian Alliances by various hands in Paramount's fields
  • a review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 9, also by various folks toiling in other's vineyards
  • a review of Peter David's The Darkness of the Light
  • a review of Ilona Andrew's Magic Bites
  • and a review of Simon Spurrier's The Culled.

Monsters & Critics reviews a novel called Seraphs, and, as usual, they forget to tell us who wrote it.

Monsters & Critics also reviews The Silver Moon Elm, and, by squinting, I can see from the bookshot that it was written by MaryJanice Davidson and Anthony Alongi.

Monsters & Critics also also reviews Talia Gryphon's Key to Conflict.

Pat's Fantasy Hotlist reviews Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies, coming soon as a SFBC Selection.

Strange Horizons has a double review of Guy Gavriel Kay's Ysabel.

Ysabel

Book Fetish reviews Simon Clark's Death's Dominion.

Bookgasm reviews the first issue of Girls and Corpses magazine, which apparently decided that there wasn't enough satirical soft-core porn about zombies in this world.

Somewhat more seriously, Bookgasm also reviews the new "Dresden Files" book by Jim Butcher, White Night. (And you can get that book as half of the exclusive SFBC omnibus Wizard Under Fire for only one dollar if you join the SFBC now. Operators are standing by!)

Wizard Under Fire

Publishers Weekly's online-only reviews for this week include The Alton Gift by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Deborah J. Ross (coming soon to the SFBC), Brian W. Aldiss's HARM, and MaryJanice Davidson's Undead and Uneasy.

Publishers Weekly's fiction reviews from the current issue are also online, and they include the long-lost Richard Bachman novel Blaze, Jennifer Fallon's Warlord (coming soon to the SFBC), and Sheri Tepper's The Margarets.

Blaze

The Amazon Blog (in the person of the indefatigable Jeff VanderMeer), recommends some SFF reading for the summer, including David Keck's In The Eye of Heaven (one of my favorite recent debut novels as well), Tony Ballantyne's Divergence, Cameron Rogers's The Music of Razors, and Hal Duncan's Ink.

In the Eye of Heaven

David Louis Edelman continues his re-read of Tolkien with a review of The Two Towers. (And you can get a single-volume Lord of the Rings from us, if you want to.)

Lord of the Rings

Visions of Paradise looks at the Gordon Van Gelder-edited anthology Fourth Planet from the Sun.

Marianne Plumridge reviews Shadows Over Baker Street edited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan.

Book Fetish reviews Mario Acevedo's X-Rated Bloodsuckers.

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