Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction, Parallel Universe, Graphic Novel
Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Vertigo
Publication Date: July 20, 2010
ISBN-10: 1401222412
ISBN-13: 978-140122241
Author Website: Matt Kindt
Revolver is the latest graphic novel offering from Matt Kindt, winner of a 2008 Harvey Award, whose first novel Pistolwhip was named one of Time Magazine’s Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2001. In Revolver we are introduced [...]
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Graphic Novel Review: Revolver by Matt Kindt
Book Review: The Unit by Terry DeHart
Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Orbit
Publication Date: July 14, 2010
ISBN-10: 0316077402
ISBN-13: 978-0316077408
Author Website: Terry DeHart
Terry DeHart’s debut novel The Unit is a post-apocalyptic narrative permeated with themes of family, faith, and pyschology. The story begins two weeks after a nuclear holocaust has hit seven major cities in the United States. The Sharpe family lived outside [...]
Book Review: To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories by Poul Anderson
# Genre: Anthology, Space Opera
# Mass Market Paperback: 720 pages
# Publisher: Baen
# Publication Date: April 28, 2009
# ISBN-10: 1416591648
# ISBN-13: 978-1416591641
# Author’s Bibliography
To Outlive Eternity and other Stories is a collection of seven tales by the Nebula Grandmaster Poul Anderson. The collection includes several short stories and novellas, as well as the complete novel [...]
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.
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 [...]
Book Review: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Genre: Apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction
Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Publication Date: September 15, 2009
ISBN-10: 1597801577
ISBN-13: 978-1597801577
Author Website: Paolo Bacigalupi
In The Windup Girl, Paolo with-the-unpronounceable-last-name (Bacigalupi), uses fiction to provide social commentary on such things as the environment, big business, international relations, and religion. Using themes of abandonment, failure, and the “other”, Bacigalupi provides a [...]
Book Review: Bone Dance by Emma Bull
I just got my review of Emma Bull’s Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles posted by the gracious hosts at SF Signal.
I hope you go check it out. And be sure to leave a comment. If you have read the book, you will know why it was especially hard to write a spoiler free review. [...]
Book Review: World’s End by Mark Chadbourn
# Genre: Fantasy, Apocalyptic Fiction
# Paperback: 415 pages
# Publisher: Pyr
# Publication Date: May 26, 2009
# ISBN-10: 159102739X
# ISBN-13: 978-1591027393
# Author Website: http://www.markchadbourn.net/
British author Mark Chadbourn describes his Age of Misrule series as an “offer [of] something distinctive, an extra choice for the reader. What I’ve done with Age of Misrule is to take certain [...]
Book Review: Genesis by Bernard Beckett
Is actually posted over at Tor.com today. Sneaky, aren’t I?
