Reviews for other Sci-Fi and Fantasy books
“A Mage Of None Magic” by A. Christopher Drown, Tyrannosaurus Press (Zachary, LA, USA), 2009, ca. 274 pages, cover art by A. Christopher Drown
Folklore tells how magic came to be when evil gods shattered the fabled gem known as the Heart of the Sisters. read on…
“The First Law — Book One: The Blade Itself” by Joe Abercrombie, Gollancz London, ca. 515 pages, 2006
Say one thing about Logen Ninefingers and one thing only: He was still alive.
The book starts with the warrior Logen Ninefingers, who is the only one of his companions to survive a Shanka attack. Once feared throughout the north as “Bloody Nine”, now Logen has no other choice than to flee to the south. read on…
Review of “Lirael” by Garth Nix, Harper Collins London, 2003, ca. 527 pages, first published 2001 (Australia)
In the 14th year of the reign of king Touchstone I.: Lirael is a daughter of the Clayr, a mysterious sisterhood of seers living in a glacier in the far north of the Old Kingdom. But Lirael is an outcast among her kind. She grew up as an orphan and always looked different than the other Clayr. read on…
The Science-Fiction book of the month for July 2010 is “The Caves of Steel” by Isaac Asimov (first published in 1954).
Detective Elijah Baley invesitgates the murder of an offworlder in Spacetown. In the opinion of the Spacers, the murder is tied up with recent attempts to sabotage the Spacer-sponsored project of converting Earth to an integrated human/robot society on the model of the Outer Worlds. read on…
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