The Joe Pitt Casebooks (final 3)

I’ve already spoken about Charlie Huston’s Joe Pitt Case Books but I finally got my hands on the final three audiobook editions of the series: Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Every Last Drop, and My Dead Body. Like Already Dead and No Dominion before them these volumes are narrated by Scott Brick.  As I tweeted [...]

Some thoughts on Uncharted

So I’ve owned a PS3 for a couple years now and I’ve finally made the time to play through both Uncharted and Uncharted 2.   For those not in the know these games, by the folks at Naughty Dog, are the sort of like Indiana Jones set in current times with only slightly less charismatic lead, [...]

Tor is Evil

I mentioned earlier this week that the Prologue for The Towers of Midnight is available for purchase (bn, amazon).  There is also a later chapter, a product of the recent Great Hunt game, over on Sanderson’s website. Also, the pretty awesome book trailer (see below).  But what does all of this mean?  That the wait [...]

Review: Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes

Tome of the Undergates Sam Sykes (Twitter) Gollancz (UK)/Pyr (US), 2010 Sam Sykes plays or has played D&D.  I don’t know if this is true but I’m going to believe it anyway.  While your average roleplayer might hope that their party of adventurers  is something like the companions from Dragonlance, or Drizzt and his coterie, [...]

Towers of Midnight Prologues available for purchase

Click here for more details. Word is everyone’s favorite stony faced warder makes an appearance and that are “MAJOR SPOILERS”!  Color me excited.

Review: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay Suzanne Collins Scholastic Press, 2010 Mockingjay is the final volume of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games, you can see my thoughts on both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire here.  When reviewing a final volume in a series it isn’t worth noting that I can’t really avoid spoilers from either of the first two book [...]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief The Sea of Monsters The Titan’s Curse The Battle of the Labyrinth The Last Olympian I have a confession to make.  I’ve never been a fan of classical mythology.  The Greek and Roman deities never sat well with me.  In all my reading of [...]

Serendipitous Find: Aurorama

Despite being a member of sff blogging community, spending more time then I probably should flipping around goodreads and (less frequently) librarything, the fact that I work in (and buy books for) a library, and that I occasionally moonlight on the sales floor of a major bookstore I still somehow manage to miss interesting titles [...]

Review: Farlander by Col Buchanan

Farlander Col Buchanan Tor UK, 2010 Farlander by Col Buchanan is yet another one of those titles.  I’ve bitched about the publishing of fantasy in the US vs. UK frequently in the past and I’ll note again that Farlander is another title with a surplus of several months of lead time in the overseas market [...]

Review: Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny

Damnation Alley Roger Zelazny Gollancz, 2003 (reprint, orig. 1969) I am an unabashed fan of Zelazny’s Amber books, yes I even love the second series starring Merlin, but other than Amber I am far too under-read when it comes to Zelany’s  body of work.  Last year, when tracking down post-apocalyptic novels to read I came [...]