My review of Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein can now be found online at Sacramento Book Review.
Posts under ‘Adventure’
Book Review: Plague Zone by Jeff Carlson (in Polish)
The folks over at Carpe Noctem, a Polish blog devoted to dark fiction, have translated my English review of Plague Zone by Jeff Carlson into Polish. So if Polish is one of your languages, have a little look see.
Audiobook Review: Vatta’s War: Trading in Danger Part 1 by Elizabeth Moon
My review of the multi-cast performance of part one of Elizabeth Moon’s tale of a disgraced cadet who joins the family shipping and trading business can be found as a featured review at SF Site.
Book Review: Shadow Prowler by Alexey Pehov
# Genre: Epic/High Fantasy, Adventure
# Hardcover: 400 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books
# Publication Date: February 16, 2010
# ISBN-10: 0765324032
# ISBN-13: 978-0765324030
# Author Website: Alexey Pehov
In Alexey Pehov’s English language debut Shadow Prowler, the first book in a trilogy, all the wonderful things about epic fantasy in the style of Robert Jordan and J. R. R. Tolkien [...]
Book Review: The Dragon Book edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
# Genre: Anthology/Short Fiction, Fantasy
# Hardcover: 448 pages
# Publisher: Ace Hardcover
# Publication Date: November 3, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0441017649
# ISBN-13: 978-0441017645
# Editor Websites: Jack Dann, Gardner Dozois
With Wizards master anthologists Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois gave readers a wonderful and unique take on an old standby of fantasy. Now these two set their sights on dragons, [...]
Book Review: Suicide Kings edited by George R. R. Martin
# Genre: Superhero, Action-Adventure, Alternate History
# Hardcover: 448 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books
# Publication Date: December 22, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0765317834
# ISBN-13: 978-0765317834
# Author Websites: George R. R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Daniel Abraham, Victor Milan, S. L. Farell, Caroline Spector, Ian Tregillis
Reading Suicide Kings was this reviewer’s first ever encounter with a Wild Cards novel. [...]
Book Review: Flight of the Renshai by Mickey Zucker Reichert
# Genre: Epic/High Fantasy
# Hardcover: 464 pages
# Publisher: DAW
# Publication Date: September 1, 2009
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0756402735
# ISBN-13: 978-0756402730
# Author Website: Mickey Zucker Reichert
Like The Wheel of Time, The Renshai Chronicles were some of the books I grew up with. Mickey Zucker Reichert’s tales based in Norse mythology were stirring and exciting. So it [...]
Book Review: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
# Genre: Literary Fantasy, Adventure, Comic Fantasy
# Hardcover: 400 pages
# Publisher: Viking Adult
# Publication Date: December 29, 2009
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0670019631
# ISBN-13: 978-0670019632
# Author Website: Jasper Fforde
Color adds beauty to the world around us. Without green grass and blue sky all would be drab and grey. But what if our entire society were [...]
Audiobook Review: Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber
In addition to reading and reviewing the print version of Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber, I also reviewed the audiobook version for SF Site. I find the audio version to be superior to the print. This suprised me, as I usually prefer print to audio.
Book Review: Plague Zone by Jeff Carlson
# Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction, Adventure
# Paperback: 336 pages
# Publisher: Ace
# Publication Date: November 24, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0441017991
# ISBN-13: 978-0441017997
# Author Website: Jeff Carlson
Jeff Carlson’s third novel Plague Zone returns the reader to the lives of tough guy Cam Navarro and nanotech researcher Ruth Goldman. Though the plague year is over and nearly everyone is immune [...]
