Genre: Epic Fantasy
Hardcover: 1008 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765326353
ISBN-13: 978-0765326355
Author Website: Brandon Sanderson
Series Website: StormBlessed.com
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Epic fantasy, good epic fantasy, is often about systems: systems of politics, or religion, of history, or of interpersonal relationships. These are the systems that can be found in most any novel. But when speaking [...]
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Book Review: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Book Review: Speak to the Devil by Dave Duncan
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition
Publication Date: May 25, 2010
ISBN-10: 0765323478
ISBN-13: 978-0765323477
Author Website: Dave Duncan
Speak to the Devil is prolific author Dave Duncan’s latest historical fantasy. Set in Eastern Europe at the end of the age of chivalry and the beginning of gunpowder based warfare, the story follows two men, brothers, who [...]
Book Review: Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Genre: Romance, Historical Fantasy
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: August 3, 2010
ISBN-10: 076532556X
ISBN-13: 978-0765325563
Author Website: Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal’s, first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, as a homage to Jane Austen, but with a fantasy twist. Kowal, the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo nominee, tells [...]
Book Review: Not Less Than Gods by Kage Baker
Genre: Steampunk
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition
Publication Date: March 16, 2010
ISBN-10: 0765318911
ISBN-13: 978-0765318916
Author Website: Kage Baker
Not Less than Gods was presented to this reviewer as a novel which would easily allow me to learn more about Kage Baker’s greatest creation ,The Company, and at the same time, be easily navigable for any reader not [...]
Book Review: The Extra by Michael Shea
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Satire
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: February 2, 2010
ISBN-10: 0765324350
ISBN-13: 978-0765324351
Author Website: Michael Shea
The Extra by Michael Shea is a laugh-out-loud satire of the film industry that is full of pulse-pounding action, astute social commentary, and super scary giant mechanical spiders.
Set in a future Los Angeles, the story follows several [...]
Book Review: Spellwright by Blake Charlton
# Genre: Epic Fantasy
# Hardcover: 352 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books
# Publication Date: March 2, 2010
# ISBN-10: 0765317273
# ISBN-13: 978-0765317278
# Author’s Website: Blake Charlton
Blake Charlton’s novel writing career starts off with a bang in Spellwright. A complicated magic system, a large secondary world, and a tale of academic intrigue, murder and prophecy might seem more than [...]
Audiobook Review: Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder
Genre: Hard SF, Space Opera, Adventure
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
ISBN-10: 0765315432
ISBN-13: 978-0765315434
Author Website: Karl Schroeder
Karl Schroeder’s Sun of Suns is an interesting mashup of fiction. It borrows bits and pieces from the great stories by C. S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian, the hard science of Vernor Vinge, and the adventure of [...]
Book Review: Wings of Creation by Brenda Cooper
# Genre: Space Opera, Science Fiction
# Hardcover: 384 pages
# Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition
# Publication Date: November 10, 2009
# ISBN-10: 0765320959
# ISBN-13: 978-0765320957
# Author Website: Brenda Cooper
Wings of Creation is Brenda Cooper’s third solo novel, and continues the story of a misfit family of genetically altered humans living on a world having an aversion to [...]
Grasping for the Wind’s Best Reads of 2009
Welcome to my favorite reads of 2009! Below is a list by category of the books I most enjoyed reading in 2009. Obviously, this a list based on my personal tastes (which often clash with the accepted preferences I’ve found) and does not mean that other 85 books I read in 2009 are no good, [...]
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. [...]
