Book Review: Stone Heart by Mallory Glass Lauren is a young stoneworker from Missouri, on her first big solo commission. Lord McCardle has hired her to restore the stone figures on his isolated tower in the Scottish Highlands. And I do mean isolated. It’s miles to the nearest village, and there’s no wi-fi or mobile… Continue reading Book Review: Stone Heart
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Book Review: The Complete Max Carrados Volume 1
Book Review: The Complete Max Carrados Volume 1 by Ernest Bramah Disclaimer: I contributed to the Kickstarter for this collection. Ernest Bramah Smith, who dropped his last name for his literary efforts, was born in 1868, and was a school dropout and farmer before becoming a writer. His first published book in 1900 was The… Continue reading Book Review: The Complete Max Carrados Volume 1
Book Review: Dealing with Dragons
Book Review: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Princess Cimorene is the youngest of seven daughters, the first six of whom are “proper” princesses. You’d think that would mean that the kingdom of Linderwall could spare her to be a bit different. But alas, “princesses” have a defined role in life, and her square… Continue reading Book Review: Dealing with Dragons
Book Review: The Guns of Sonora | Black Buzzards of Bueno
Book Review: The Guns of Sonora | Black Buzzards of Bueno by Ben Smith and Tom West respectively Let’s look at another Ace Double Western, two exciting short novels upside down from each other! The Guns of Sonora takes place in Mexico, on and around the rancho of Don Valentine, a wealthy cattle baron. It’s… Continue reading Book Review: The Guns of Sonora | Black Buzzards of Bueno
Book Review: The Book of Mistaikes
Book Review: The Book of Mistaikes by Gyles Brandreth Oh look, it’ s another humour book I picked up in England as a young man! This one has a title that my computer keeps trying to tell me doesn’t exist. As you might guess, this is another collection of goofs, flubs, boners, and other mistakes.… Continue reading Book Review: The Book of Mistaikes
Book Review: Land of the Giants
Book Review: Land of the Giants by Murray Leinster In the near future of the 1980s, the Spindrift, a suborbital plane, is getting ready for takeoff. It will be Flight 703 from Los Angeles to London with an expected duration of 41 minutes. The crew is Captain Steve Burton, pilot; Dan Erickson, co-pilot; and Betty… Continue reading Book Review: Land of the Giants
Book Review: The Luminous Fairies and Mothra
Book Review: The Luminous Fairies and Mothra written by Shin’ichro Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga & Yoshie Hotta, translated by Jeffrey Angles. The remote Infant Island, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, was believed to be uninhabited. Thus the nuclear superpower Rosilica has been using it to conduct their atomic bomb tests. Now, word has come in that… Continue reading Book Review: The Luminous Fairies and Mothra
Book Review: Falcon
Book Review: Falcon by Emma Bull Dominic “Niki” Emrys Ieuan Glyndwr is a prince of Cymru, a backwater planet primarily settled by people of Welsh descent who’d finally won their freedom from the English. He and his brilliant geneticist mother Morwenna have been on a long summer break from the press of palace affairs and… Continue reading Book Review: Falcon
Book Review: Lost in Underspace
Book Review: Lost in Underspace by Kate Dane Kate Dane is a Minnesota speculative fiction author whose first novel is a romance between a lawyer and a werewolf. This is the second collection of her short stories. “The Interplanetary Olympics” starts us off with the story of Jackie, a world-class swimmer who’s trying to get… Continue reading Book Review: Lost in Underspace
Book Review: Phobia
Book Review: Phobia by Thomas Luke When Peter Ross was seven, his little sister died in a swimming pool accident. He developed a crushing fear of swimming. Some years later, Peter’s father threw him into the deep end of the pool, and in his struggles to get out, the boy found that he could swim,… Continue reading Book Review: Phobia