Book Reviews A-Z
These are the my book reviews, categorized alphabetically by the author’s last name.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Movies/TV
A
Joe Abercrombie
The Blade Itself
Before They Are Hanged
Last Argument of Kings
Daniel Abraham
Hunter’s Run
Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Bad-A** Faeries (editor)
Yesterday’s Dreams
John Joseph Adams
Seeds of Change
Shimmer, The Pirate Issue
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Federations
Ann Aguirre
Grimspace
Randy Alcorn
The Treasure Principle
Kevin J. Anderson
Paul of Dune
Poul Anderson
The Van Rijn Method (compiled by Hank Davis, also reviewed at Sacramento Book Review)
Taylor Anderson
Destroyermen: Into the Storm
Isaac Asimov
The Currents of Space
B
Paolo Bacigalupi
The Windup Girl
Kage Baker
The Women of Nell Gwynne’s
Jonathan Barnes
The Somnambulist
Lee Barwood
Klasssic Koalas: Ancient Aboriginal Tales in New Retellings
Peter S. Beagle
We Never Talk About My Brother
Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone
Elizabeth Bear
All the Windwracked Stars
Bernard Beckett
Genesis (review is at Tor.com)
Anina Bennett
Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel
Warren Bennis
On Becoming A Leader
C.F. Bentley
Harmony
J. M. C. Blair
The Excalibur Murders
Edward Bolme
Eberron: Bound by Iron
Eberron: The Orb of Xoriat
Paul Brand
The Gift of Pain
Marie Brennan
Midnight Never Come
In Ashes Lie
Peter V. Brett
The Warded Man
Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson: Homecoming
Kristin Britain
Green Rider
Keith Brooke
Genetopia
Eric Brown
Helix
John Brown
Servant of a Dark God
Bill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The Mother Tongue
Tobias Buckell
Crystal Rain
Ragamuffin
Sly Mongoose
Tides from the New Worlds
Robert Buettner
Orphanage
Orphan’s Destiny
Emma Bull
Bone Dance (posted at SF Signal)
Jim Butcher
Small Favor
Katherine Burton
Hedge Hunters
Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms: Unclean
C
Trudi Canavan
The Magician’s Apprentice (also reviewed at Sacramento Book Review)
Orson Scott Card
Ender in Exile
Jeff Carlson
Plague Year
Plague Zone
Humphrey Carpenter
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography
Mark Chadbourn
World’s End
Gary Chapman
The Five Love Languages
Emmanuel Civiello
A Bit of Madness
Eoin Colfer
And Another Thing…
Brenda Cooper
Wings of Creation
Bruce Cordell
Forgotten Realms: Stardeep
Forgotten Realms: Plague of Spells
City of Torment
Elaine Cunningham
Forgotten Realms: The City of Splendors
Julie E. Czerneda
Misspelled
D
Jack Dann
Wizards (editor)
The Dragon Book (co-editor)
James P. Davis
The Restless Shore
Erik Scott de Bie
Downshadow
Stephen Deas
The Adamantine Palace
Frank Delaney
Tipperary: A Novel
Gardner Dozois
Wizards (editor)
Hunter’s Run with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham
The Dragon Book (co-editor)
David Anthony Durham
Acacia
E
David Louis Edelman
Infoquake
MultiReal
Geosynchron
Ian Edgington
Sojourn: The Bezerker’s Tale
Sojourn: The Sorcerer’s Tale
Kim Edwards
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Greg van Eekhout
Norse Code
Kate Elliott
The Crown of Stars Series
Peter Berresford Ellis
The Druids
Warren Ellis
Planetary #27
Harlan Ellison
Dangerous Visions (editor)
Clayton Emery
Robin Hood and the Beasts of Sherwood
James Enge
Blood of Ambrose
Chris Evans
A Darkness Forged in Fire
The Light of Burning Shadows
F
Tracy Falbe
Union of Renegades
Raymond E. Feist
Magician
Honored Enemy with William R. Fortschen
Murder in LaMut with Joel Rosenberg
Jasper Fforde
Shades of Grey
Charles Coleman Finlay
The Prodigal Troll
Eric Flint
Worlds
Jeffrey Ford
The Empire of Ice Cream
Pat Frank
Alas, Babylon
Maragaret Frazer
The Clerk’s Tale
Pamela Freeman
Blood Ties
Deep Water
Jake Frievald
Flash Fiction Online, April 2008 (editor)
G
Neil Gaiman
Don’t Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
David Gemmell
Legend
Paul Genesse
The Golden Cord
L.B. Graham
Beyond the Summerland
Shadow in the Deep
Terry Goodkind
Confessor
Phantom
David Green
More Than A Hobby
Martin H. Greenberg
Fellowship Fantastic (with Kerrie Hughes)
Better off Undead (with Daniel M. Hoyt)
Terribly Twisted Tales (with Jean Rabe)
Robert Greenberger
The Essential Batman Encyclopedia
Ed Greenwood
Forgotten Realms: Swords of Dragonfire
Forgotten Realms: The City of Splendors
Paul Guinan
Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel
H
Johnny Hart
Growingold with B.C.
Lian Hearn
Heaven’s Net is Wide
Robert Heinlein
Glory Road
Between Planets
Jenna Helland
The Fanged Crown (also reviewed at Sacramento Book Review)
Brian Herbert
Paul of Dune
Michael R. Hicks
In Her Name
Sharon Hinck
The Restorer
Jim C. Hines
Goblin Quest
Goblin Hero
Goblin War
The Stepsister Scheme
The Mermaid’s Madness
W. H. Horner
Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy (editor)
Sails and Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy (editor)
Stephen Hunt
The Court of the Air
Walter H. Hunt
A Song in Stone
J. C. Hutchins
7th Son: Descent
I
J
A. J. Jacobs
The Know-It-All
P. D. James
The Children of Men
Jaleigh Johnson
Forgotten Realms: The Howling Delve
Rosemary Jones
Forgotten Realms: Crypt of the Moaning Diamond
City of the Dead
Robert Jordan
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan
The Gathering Storm
Theodore Judson
The Martian General’s Daughter
K
Paul S. Kemp
Forgotten Realms: Shadowrealm
Forgotten Realms: Shadowstorm
Russell Kirkpatrick
Across the Face of the World
E. E. Knight
Dragon Champion
Dragon Outcast
Jak Koke
The Edge of Chaos
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Nursery Rhyme Noir (review at The Fix)
Yanni Kuznia (editor)
A Fantasy Medley
L
Mercedes Lackey
Foundation
The Phoenix Unchained with James Mallory
Jay Lake
Green
Greg Land (artist)
Sojourn: The Bezerker’s Tale
Sojourn: The Sorcerer’s Tale
Sue Lange
We, Robots
Aaron Lansky
Outwitting History
Warren Lapine
Realms of Fantasy August 2009 (editor)
Stephen Lawhead
Scarlet
Hood
The Pendragon Cycle
Tuck
Jess Lebow
Forgotten Realms: Obsidian Ridge
Sharon Lee
Longeye
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Left Hand of Darkness
John Lenahan
Shadowmagic
Denise Little
The Trouble with Heroes (ed.)
M
Scott MacKay
Phytosphere
Tides
Nathalie Mallet
The Princes of the Golden Cage
The King’s Daughters
Geoffrey Maloney
Six Silly Stories (review at The Fix)
Andy Mangels
Iron Man: Beneath the Armor
John Marco
The Eyes of God
Starfinder
George R. R. Martin
Dying of the Light
Hunter’s Run with Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham
Fevre Dream
Suicide Kings (ed.)
Gail Z. Martin
The Summoner
A. Lee Martinez
Monster
James Maxey
Bitterwood
John Maxwell
Life@Work
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Frank McCourt
Teacher Man
Ian McDonald
Cyberabad Days (also reviewed at Sacramento Book Review)
Carole McDonnell
Wind Follower
Fiona McIntosh
Royal Exile
Dennis L. McKiernan
City of Jade
Patricia A. McKillip
The Bell at Sealy Head
Mike McPhail
Breach the Hull (editor)
R. M. Meluch
The Sagittarius Command
Mental_Floss
Condensed Knowledge
Robyn Meredith
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us
Karen Miller
The Innocent Mage
The Awakened Mage
The Prodigal Mage
Empress
The Riven Kingdom
Steve Miller
Longeye
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Magic of Recluce
Elizabeth Moon
Vatta’s War: Trading in Danger Part 1 (audiobook)
Moira J. Moore
Heroes Adrift
James Muirden
A Rhyming History of Britain
David P. Murphy
Zombies for Zombies
N
Kaleb Nation
Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse
John Julius Norwich
Shakespeare’s Kings
Andre Norton
The Game of Stars and Comets
O
John O’Neill
Black Gate: Issue #11
Black Gate Issue #12
Jeffrey Overstreet
Auralia’s Colors
Cyndere’s Midnight
P
David A. Page
Mithras Court
Michael Palmer
The Last Surgeon
Christopher Paolini
Eragon
K. J. Parker
The Company
Alexey Pehov
Shadow Prowler
Lyn Perry (ed.)
ResAliens Issue #1
Robert M. Poole
Explorer’s House: National Geographic and the World It Made
Terry Pratchett
Making Money
Thud!
The Truth
Unseen Academicals
Christopher Priest
The Prestige
Jeff Prucher
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction
Q
R
Daniel A. Rabuzzi
The Choir Boats
Dave Ramsey
The Junior Books
Robert V. S. Redick
The Red Wolf Conspiracy
Kit Reed
Enclave
Mickey Zucker Reichert
Flight of the Renshai
Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms: The Gossamer Plain
Mike Resnick
Stalking the Unicorn
Francine Rivers
Redeeming Love
Jenna Rhodes
The Four Forges
Jim Rossignol
This Gaming Life
Pat Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind
Luis Royo
Malefic
Brian Ruckley
Winterbirth
Bloodheir
Fall of Thanes
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Diving into the Wreck
S
R. A. Salvatore
Forgotten Realms: The Orc King
Forgotten Realms: Road of the Patriarch
Brandon Sanderson
Warbreaker
The Gathering Storm
Robert J. Santa
Black Dragon, White Dragon (editor, review at The Fix)
Dorothy Sayers
Are Women Human?
John Scalzi
Agent to the Stars
Old Man’s War
Eric Schlosser
Fast Food Nation
Susan Schneider
Science Fiction and Philosophy
Joe Schreiber
Star Wars: Death Troopers
Mark Sehestedt
Eberron: The Tales of the Last War (editor)
Diane Setterfield
The Thirteenth Tale
James Seymour
Black History Through Blue Eyes: The Debt the World Owes to Africa
William Shakespeare
Henry V (Classical Comics Edition)
Joel Shepherd
Sasha
Robert Silverberg
Son of Man
Brian Francis Slattery
Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six after the Collapse of the United States of America
Lisa Smedman
Forgotten Realms: Ascendancy of the Last
E. E. “Doc” Smith
Triplanetary
Alexander McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Maria V. Snyder
Poison Study
Jonathan Strahan
Eclipse Two (also reviewed at Sacramento Book Review)
Lili St. Crow
Strange Angels
Charles Stross
Wireless
Matthew Sturges
Midwinter
Michael Stusser
The Dead Guy Interviews
S. A. Swann
Wolfbreed
T
David Tischman
Red Herring Issues #1-2
Rob Thurman
Madhouse
Peter Tremayne
Badger’s Moon
Master of Souls
Smoke in the Wind
Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad
U
V
Jeff VanderMeer
Finch
Gordon Van Gelder (editor)
Fantasy and Science Fiction August/September 2009
John Varley
Rolling Thunder
Robert Venditti
The Surrogates, Vol. 1
The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone
W
Chris Walley
The Shadow and Night
Jason M. Waltz
Return of the Sword (editor)
Rage of the Behemoth (editor)
Jason M. Ward
Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe
Brent Weeks
The Way of Shadows
Shadow’s Edge
Dave Weldon
Moon Gate with William Proctor
Martha Wells
The Death of the Necromancer
Michelle West
The Hidden City
Scott Westerfeld
The Risen Empire
Elie Wiesel
Night
David J. Williams
The Mirrored Heavens
Tad Williams
Shadowmarch
Shadowplay
Walter Jon Williams
Implied Spaces
Simon Winchester
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Mindy and Brandon Withrow
Monks and Mystics
Gene Wolfe
The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
Janny Wurts
The Curse of the Mistwraith
X
Y
Z
John Zakour
The Blue-Haired Bombshell
The Flaxen Femme Fatale
Movies/TV
Castle Season 1
Defiance
FlashForward Season 1.1
Iron Man
Legend of the Seeker Season 1
Prince Caspian
Riese the Series: “Hunt”
Riese the Series: “Fragments”
Space Buddies
Surrogates
The Whole Wide World
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