Genre: Humor
Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: Eloquent Books
Publication Date: February 26, 2010
ISBN-10: 1609112342
ISBN-13: 978-1609112349
Author Website: Ira Nayman
What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children’s Toys is the second collection of alternated news stories by Ira Nayman. The premise of the book is like a newspaper, filled with stories of an alternate world. Of course, being releases as a [...]
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Book Review: What Were Once Miracles Are Now Children’s Toys by Ira Nayman
Book Review: Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi
My review of the Subterranean Press chapbook “Judge Sn Goes Golfing” by John Scalzi is up at Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review. I first “read” this book by listening to Scalzi read it aloud at Dragon*Con 2008. It is great on its own, but you really have to hear it read by Scalzi, everyone there was [...]
Book Review: Stuff of Legends by Ian Gibson
Genre: Humor, Satire, Comic Fantasy
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Ace
Publication Date: July 27, 2010
ISBN-10: 0441019307
ISBN-13: 978-0441019304
Author Website: Ian Gibson
Every boy dreams of adventure. Just look at young adult shelves if you do not yet believe. Any adult avid reader likely has a story of a teacher, parent of friend handing them a novel full of rousing adventure, [...]
Book Review: Go, Mutants! by Larry Doyle
Genre: Parody, Comic SF
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Ecco
Publication Date: June 22, 2010
ISBN-10: 0061686557
ISBN-13: 978-0061686559
Author Website: Larry Doyle
Book Site: www.gomutants.com
Teenage angst, B-movie monsters, and hilarious pop culture references combine in Go, Mutants! the latest novel by Larry Doyle, an Emmy-winning writer for the Simpsons and author of I Love You, Beth Cooper.
Set in an alternate universe where [...]
Book Review: Divine Misfortune by A. Lee Martinez
# Genre: Comic Fantasy
# Hardcover: 320 pages
# Publisher: Orbit
# Publication Date: March 26, 2010
# ISBN-10: 0316041270
# ISBN-13: 978-0316041270
# Author Website: A. Lee Martinez
Divine Misfortune is the latest from comedic contemporary fantasist A. Lee Martinez. Drawing on the recent interest among the reading populace at the mixing of ancient pantheons of gods with contemporary society a [...]
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 [...]
Book Review: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
# Genre: Comic Fantasy, Fantasy, Satire
# Hardcover: 400 pages
# Publisher: Harper
# Publication Date: October 6, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0061161705
# ISBN-13: 978-0061161704
# Author Website: Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett continues his pattern of taking something from the real world, twisting it to fit in the Discworld universe, and adding bits of wry British humor in Unseen Academicals.
This time, [...]
