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AXLE BUST CREEK – John Shirley

Posted by Daniel on January 30, 2023
Posted in: Uncategorized, WESTERN. Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, Western. Leave a comment

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Axle Bust Creek is a new mining town in Nevada. Towns such as this don’t usually have law enforcement until the lawlessness gets out of hand. 

Cleve Trewe is a former Union officer who feels it’s his family duty to help his uncle (who was almost killed defending his gold mine from claim jumpers). Although Cleve’s got the legitimate paperwork to prove his rightful ownership of the mine, he finds that the crooks have done a good jump of casting doubts on their documents and claim.

Most people in town know that there is need for law, and Cleve puts his name forward and is selected to be the town sheriff. He takes the job seriously (not just as a position to take back the mine) and defends a prisoner from hanging by a lynch mob (having some PTSD from when he saw a war deserter hung).

Complications arise in his pursuit of the rightful mine ownership when Cleve starts to fall for the sister of the leader behind the claim jumping. Cleve is confident that she’s innocent in the affair and has no knowledge of what her brother is doing.

Like many readers, I’m most familiar with author john Shirley through his sci-fi and horror work and I really did expect to find some cross-over, but Shirley shows his versatility here with a straight-up Western which draws on a few familiar tropes (ie: Civil War vet; chosen to be the law in a lawless town; falling for the sister of the ‘villain’; standing up to a mob to protect a prisoner; etc).

The book is the first in a series, named for our hero, Cleve Trewe so it should go without saying that the reader’s ‘liking’ of Trewe is important. Fortunately Shirley portrays Trewe as a lawful, good man without being a pushover. If I have one complaint, however, it’s that our hero doesn’t seem to have to work too hard at any time in the book – any challenge or obstacle is met and dealt with pretty easily.

I recognize that the market for Western fiction isn’t particularly large, but for those of us who do enjoy a Western now and then, it’s really nice to have a publisher putting out some new works

Looking for a good book? Axle Bust Creek by John Shirley is the first book in a new Western series that promises to follow a morally upright, new-on-the-job sheriff in a mining town out West.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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Axle Bust Creek

author: John Shirley

series: Cleve Trewe #1

publisher: Pinnacle Books

ISBN: 9780786049257

paperback, 352 pages

THE SILVER NINJA – Wilmar Luna

Posted by Daniel on January 26, 2023
Posted in: Uncategorized. Tagged: 2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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There is a moderately interesting back-story to this book and my decision as to whether or not read and review it. At some point the author made this book available for early reviews. When I first was ready to read this, I did a little reading on the author’s website (there were big plans for this book/series) and, largely due to quite a few negative reviews, the author pulled the book so that there could be a rewrite.  I thought it only fair to not read and review it. The book resurfaced in my queue and when I looked into it again, it seems that while the author did indeed do a rewrite, he has made the original available for reading and reviewing again. What I found was a pretty run-of-the-mill self-published action/adventure novel.

 

Cindy Ames is a gymnastics instructor. Her husband, Jonas, works for a clandestine government organization where he develops top secret weapons projects. One day Cindy gets a bit too curious and can’t help herself explore an amazing-looking suit of armor.  But this top-secret suit of armor, composed of nano machines, is only a prototype and not ready for use, but the nanos bond with Cindy and she becomes one with the suit.

While startling, Cindy quickly decides that being a superhero might just be what she’s been destined to do given her gymnastics background. But what she doesn’t realize is that the suit is actually changing her behavior and her attitude. Can Jonas fix the suit and save his wife before she becomes the world’s most dangerous super villain?

If this was pulp fiction from the 1950’s (ala Doc Savage or The Phantom Lady or Miss Fury) it would be just fine – it’s got lots of action, cheesy dialog, and some really amusing mixed metaphors (“The soldiers swarmed on her like ants to a picnic table.” then just a moment later, in the same paragraph, “…more troops continued to pile on top of her like a quarterback with a football.”). The dialog doesn’t get much better than this.

Sometimes a cheesy pulp story is just what you’re looking for, and seriously, I’d put this right up (‘over’?) there with pulp heroes like Domino Lady or Green Lama … heroes most people have never heard of (often for good reason).

But even this kind of pulp writing has a very limited audience appeal and I suspect this was intended more as a modern action superhero adventure, but the purple prose and explosive subplots really makes this much more in  line with a those 1940’s pulps. And … we stop caring for the main characters, which is something you should never do for this kind of fiction.

Looking for a good book? The Silver Ninja by Wilmar Luna (original edition) is a cheesy pulp-like superhero fiction that could find an audience, but it’s not a book I’d recommend.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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The Silver Ninja

author: Wilmar Luna

series: The Silver Ninja Prototype #1

publisher: Createspace

ISBN: 9781480237902

paperback, 362 pages

CONFESS, FLETCH – Gregory McDonald

Posted by Daniel on January 24, 2023
Posted in: MYSTERY, Uncategorized. Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mystery, Reviews. Leave a comment

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I’m quite certain I read one or more Fletch books, probably in the mid-1980’s when the Chevy Chase films were coming out and I was managing a book store, but I don’t remember much about the books, so I was quite interested in looking at this, Confess, Fletch, being reissued to coincide with the new film.

I. M. “Fletch” Fletcher is back in the United States (from Italy), Boston specifically, and staying in an upscale townhouse that he’s renting. The rental comes complete with all the usual amenities plus a few frills – including the naked, dead body of a young woman in the living room.

Inspector Flynn, investigating the murder, has Fletch as his prime suspect and he makes no bones about it, constantly encouraging Fletch to make it easy on all of them and just confess. Fletch is exactly uncooperative, but he’s steady and steadfast in maintaining his innocence. Flynn is equally resolute in believing Fletch is guilty, but he feels there just enough lack of evidence to make the arrest.

While Fletch works to prove his innocence (by finding the actual killer) he’s also hard at work trying to track down some stolen artwork and using some less-than-legal means to do so.  Having a police tail complicates things, but Fletch is always cool under pressure.

This feels like a nice cross between the classic pulp detective novels (and I mean that in the best of ways) and the more ‘modern’ mystery fiction. Of course Fletch is not an actual detective, and the true detective here is the foil (however, a trustworthy one), and our protagonist operates on the border of the law.

This is most definitely a character-driven book (the entire series features Fletch’s name in the title) and we have here a very interesting character in Fletch. As a journalist, he’s got some investigating chops, and as a former Marine he can handle himself in some tricky situations. He’s calm and cool and often quite aloof which is a big part of his charm. It’s hard to imagine Chevy Chase playing him (back in the 1980’s) but I’m really curious to see the film version of this particular book with Jon Hamm in the title role.

It’s really nice to have new films if for no other reason that to see book reissues of a series that deserves to find new readership.

Looking for a good book? Confess, Fletch, by Gregory McDonald, might best be described as a ‘modern pulp’ mystery and is worthy of your reading time.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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Confess, Fletch

author: Gregory McDonald

series: Fletch #2

publisher: Blackstone Publishing

ISBN: 9798212338233

paperback, 264 pages

DRUNK ON ALL YOUR STRANGE NEW WORDS – Eddie Robson

Posted by Daniel on January 20, 2023
Posted in: MYSTERY, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized. Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mystery, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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Being a translator is difficult at the best of times – knowing multiple languages so thoroughly in order to be able to translate in real time – we can only imagine the challenges ahead when we make contact with intelligent life from new worlds and author Eddie Robson has imagined this for us in the entertaining mystery, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words.

Lydia is a translator, somewhat new to the business, but one of the top translators in the business. The Logi are a peaceful race but they do not communicate with spoken words. Instead, they communicate telepathically using symbols and ideas rather than words.

Lydia is assigned to a Logi who has been nicknamed Fitz, a cultural attaché for the alien race. Despite the challenges of translating for the Logi, Lydia enjoys working with Fitz. But when he is murdered, Lydia is the number one suspect and her defense is shaky given that she can’t remember anything from that night.

This is a very interesting book – I’m rating moderately well because the bottom line is that I enjoyed the read. The two main characters (Lydia and Fitz) are nicely paired and although there isn’t a lot of depth to either of them, we do feel like we get to know them (as much as possible, given one of them dies).

The world-building is a little shallow – we don’t really get much information about the Logi or how the relationship between them and humans have developed.  This is something that would be nice to know a little better, but we also need to realize – this is a murder mystery first and scifi story second.

(Make no mistake … there are authors who write fantastic scifi mysteries, where the two genres play equally in the story.)

But what makes this book really stand out is the CTPP (Cool Things Per Page) – and even at that, it’s not the number of CTPP, but the quality of it.

“On her first day at the London School of Thought Language (LSTL) they told her that processing the language in your brain didn’t make you drunk but it did make you feel drunk, a distinction Lydia found hard to grasp: drunkenness is a feeling, so what’s the difference between feeling drunk and being drunk? They explained that from a biological perspective it was very different because your body wasn’t dealing with toxins, and the process didn’t damage your body in the same way alcohol did. So it was like getting drunk with no downside? Awesome.”

So … translating in this ‘thought’-language makes the translator feel drunk the longer they work at the translating – hence Lydia’s failing to remember what actually happened.

It’s a great concept and the story is written well, if a bit simply. It would be nice to revisit this world, with Lydia, and get a little more history in the course of the story.

Looking for a good book? Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson is a light, fun, scifi mystery based on a really interesting concept.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

author: Eddie Robson

publisher: Tordotcom

ISBN: 9781250807342

hardcover, 277 pages

THE RETURN – Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes

Posted by Daniel on January 18, 2023
Posted in: SF/FANTASY. Tagged: 2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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Well of course I picked up this book primarily because of Buzz Aldrin’s name on the cover.  I mean, an astronaut writing a sci-fi/mystery/thriller?  Yes, please!  And of course, most of us recognize that the second name on the cover is probably really the author who took the astronaut’s idea and turned it into a 300+ page yawner novel.

In a very similar but alternate reality earth, NASA is putting in to action the plan to send commercial flights into space and to the International Space Station. The first commercial passenger is a sports celebrity – a well known basketball player known as MJ.  Yup …. Michael James.

But something goes terribly wrong – most likely a micrometeroid has gone through the hull of the ship, through MJ, killing him instantly, with pieces of debris critically injuring another astronaut. Valuable oxygen is fast exiting the ship through the hole.  The rest of the crew must do something quickly, but the return trip through the atmosphere could kill the injured crew member.

There isn’t much they can do in space, so the emergency return trip is planned, with a landing at Easter Island the nearest runway.  But the runway hasn’t been maintained and the potholes and cracks nearly tear the vehicle apart on its return.

The whole thing is a nightmare for NASA, most likely setting back the commercial transportation idea for decades.  One key figure on the ground (Scott Blackstone – a former astronaut) is fired from his post and left to take the brunt of all bad press and is blacklisted from getting a good attorney.  Well, almost.  It happens that his ex-wife. Thalia, is one of the best around.  Nick, Scott’s brother convinces Thalia to take him on.

It is discovered that the accident was no accident, and not a micrometeroid.  It was sabotage. An explosion inside the shuttle occurred – one large enough to take out enough of the hull that the entire crew would have died in a matter of minutes, but MJ happened to be in the way, purely by chance, and took the brunt of the attack.

But now sabotage has occurred on the ISS and it is spiraling out of control with the onboard crew unable to do anything about it.  There is one chance – a slim one – to prevent the ISS from falling into a decay orbit and burning up, with the crew, still alive, on board.  But that chance means Scott Blackstone has to pilot a commercial shuttle with an untrained crew to the rescue.

I know it sounds like there’s a lot of thrilling excitement going on here, but unfortunately the story is told in a flat, one-note manner.

The incident with the shuttle and MJ’s death – I thought this was going to be the story, but the whole is set up and finished in just a couple of chapters.  Then we get a third of the book as a legal thriller. Lawsuits and threats from anonymous enemies, warning Thalia to not pursue the case.  But before that can play out, it comes to an end with the discovery of the sabotage.

Then, finally, for the last quarter of the book, we have our final story, the dire need for the ISS to be rescued.  And … ta da! … it is! No need to wonder or be kept in suspense … it will all just be delivered flatly for you.

Buzz Aldrin is an American hero.  Nothing will change that.  He did something not many have done – he walked on the moon.  But that doesn’t make him a writer.  Soooo many people in other walks of life think “I have an idea for a story … I’ll be a writer in my spare time” while many writers toil away at it for years.  And of course, if you are a celebrity with an idea for a story, a publisher wants to capitalize on your status and will pair you with a writer.  This is the part that doesn’t make sense.  John Barnes has written a lot of books (157 according to goodreads).  This is the first one that I’ve read, but I would expect someone with his publishing history to have a tighter story with more sense of adventure.

Looking for a good book?  The Return by Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes was really disappointing all the way around. It’s no wonder I found it in a used book store, which is where some poor soul is likely to pick up this same copy.

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The Return

authors: Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes

publisher: Tor Books

ISBN: 081257060X

paperback, 352 pages

STRINGERS – Chris Panatier

Posted by Daniel on January 16, 2023
Posted in: HUMOR, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized. Tagged: 3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Humor, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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While it is sometimes nice to pick up a book by a familiar author and in general know what kind of story you’re about to get, I do appreciate an author who takes chances and tries something very different from what they’ve written previously. Stringers, by Chris Panatier, feels like a risk and one I’m not sure pays off.

Ben Sullivan knows a lot of useless facts. Especially facts about sex (and very specifically not just human sexuality) and the biological functions of a cornucopia of living creatures. He doesn’t know why he knows these things – he just does.  Just as he also knows about The Chime, which is … well, I’m not going to give it away.

Ben’s best friend is Patton, a dude generally pretty stoned, which is maybe a blessing given what they encounter. For all his stone-ishness, Patton remains a loyal friend and the two of them experience a whole lot of strangeness when they’re abducted by aliens.

I was very mixed on this book. This could very easily be titled Ben and Patton’s Excellent Adventure – it’s got that kind of vibe to it. But I’m not a fan of that movie, frankly.

The book is full of humor. But it’s middle grade boy humor – sex and farts and other bodily functions kind of humor. And there will surely be an audience for this (beyond the middle grade boys) but it’s really not for me. I’ve seen this compared to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – and I can totally understand this connection, but let’s be really clear … this is not a classic.

I did like the character of Ben Sullivan. Patton at least had the endearing quality of faithfulness, and their journey had some intriguing promise, but the plot then seemed to take a back seat to the humor.

In the author’s note for readers at the start of the book, Panatier writes: “Don’t skip the footnotes. There’s a code for a million dollars in one of them. Okay, that’s a lie, but still. Read the footnotes.” And so I did. At least for awhile.  I read the first 53 footnotes – which according to my Kindle was only 20% of the book.

Reading footnotes (or endnotes … these are endnotes in this book) is a process – it’s a little more complicated with an older version of the Kindle, but whether physical or digital, the reader needs to flip to or click on the note and then back again. This takes me out of the flow of the story so it had better be important.  And yeah, sometimes these were important.  Sometimes.  Other times, it was the author (or was it the narrator of the story?) trying to be funny.  That endnote #53 for instance … the boys are being introduced to an alien.  “”This here is Ghuxch-hexer-chchch,” said Apat.” And we’re taken away from the moment so that the author (or is it the narrator … I’m still not sure) can have us read, “Gesundheit.” Yes, that’s what you’re getting yourself into.

We do get to learn what a ‘stringer’ is – through the use of a parable with Jed Clampett as the central figure in the story – and it does tie in to the aforementioned abundance of random knowledge.

Again, I appreciate that Panatier tried something new, but this goofy humor didn’t work for me and it’s so chock-full of it that the more interesting story gets lost.

Looking for a good book? Stringers by Chris Panatier is a sci-fi humor story. If you like this kind of thing, then you might want to check out this book.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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Stringers

author: Chris Panatier

publisher: Angry Robot

ISBN: 9780857669629

paperback, 374 pages

LITTLE EVE – Catriona Ward

Posted by Daniel on January 12, 2023
Posted in: Dark Fantasy/Horror, Uncategorized. Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Reviews. Leave a comment

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Sisters Eve and Dinah are youthful members of a cult, led by a man known only as “Uncle,” living in an old stone castle on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. Uncle promises his wards, his followers, all young girls, that the future holds something profound, something they’ve never seen before. One of the girls will inherit tremendous powers and Eve is willing to do anything to be the chosen one.

But even on a remote island in Scotland, just after the war to end all wars, a cult with young girl followers catches the eyes of the law. Chief Inspector Christopher Black investigates a brutal murder, which derails a sacred ceremony on the island, and he desperately wants to get Eve away from Uncle’s control. But no matter how bad things get, Eve is devoted to Uncle and his teachings.

It is quite appropriate that this was a Shirley Jackson Award winner (2019) because this feels so much like a Shirley Jackson book – it is a dark, Gothic horror novel, heavy on character.

Author Catriona Ward plays fast and loose with time here and it’s important to pay attention to the date at the beginning of a chapter. We bounce around a bit but rest assured, the story does come together.

I especially appreciated the character of Inspector Black.  He seemed the most complex character. While the focus is on Eve, she doesn’t seem to be in control of her own actions through most of the book and her wants and desires seem pretty straight-forward. Black on the other hand is highly conflicted. He is suspicious of Eve, but he also wants to get her out of her situation (being in a cult), but he also knows he has no direct action he can take other than trying to convince her it’s in her best interest – which is typically not enough to get someone out of a cult.

There are layers of horror here, sometimes subtle, sometimes in your face, but overall it definitely has a gothic horror feel to it, and as I’ve already mentioned, it sings of Shirley Jackson.

Author Catriona Ward notes that while this is only just being published by her current publisher, she actually wrote and had this published in 2018 (it received the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel in 2018), making this her first novel. I’ve now read two books by Ward and she is definitely an author to seek out.

Looking for a good book? Little Eve by Catriona Ward is solid, spine-tingling, Gothic horror and worth reading if you like a little shiver in your reading.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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Little Eve

author: Catriona Ward

publisher: Tor Nightfire

ISBN: 9781250812650

hardcover, 271 pages

IN THE CITY OF TIME – Gwendolyn Clare

Posted by Daniel on January 10, 2023
Posted in: SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA. Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult. Leave a comment

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Willa Marconi has been doing research in a laboratory at the University of Bologna in 1891 when her mentor at the school dies unexpectedly. Without her mentor’s support she risks losing her access to the lab, her stipend, and all her research to date.  But when she discovers a strange signal while using her radio equipment, she fights to hang on to her research.

Fast-forward about 140 years – 2034 and the Earth has become uninhabitable. Humans exist only in pockets of artificial worlds which are often on the verge of collapse.  Jaideep lost his parents when the Bay Area pocket collapsed and now Riley will do anything to help Jaideep, including making a time machine to travel back in time to prevent the catastrophic event that caused the Earth’s devastation.

Something goes wrong, however, and instead of Riley and Jaideep going back in time, Willa is pulled forward with them and the three of them are stuck in an abandoned city with an android time-cop hunting them and only a faulty time-machine to help.

This book is set in the same universe as author Gwendolyn Clare’s Ink, Iron, and Glass books (the first of which I reviewed three years ago), but you don’t have to have read those books to enjoy this.

Clare has done a nice job of providing us with post-apocalyptic science fiction story, mixed with some time-travel, featuring some pretty resourceful teens.

The teen characters make-or-break this novel (since there aren’t many characters beside them), and they are definitely a nice trio of diversity with some mad skills and witty banter that should endear them to teen readers. The time cop is also a powerful character in its own way, but I couldn’t help but constantly picture the cop from the Terminator movie.

Looking for a good book? In the City of Time by Gwendolyn Clare is a nice diversion and for fans of time-travel science fiction a quick yet satisfying read.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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In the City of Time

author: Gwendolyn Clare

series: In the City of Time #1

publisher: Feiwel Friends

ISBN: 9781250230744 

hardcover, 336 pages

STORMBRINGER (Saga #2) – Michael Moorcock

Posted by Daniel on January 6, 2023
Posted in: SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized. Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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Just as with the first volume in the Elric Saga, I’m quite pleased to have the entire Elric series being re-released and available digitally. The order of the books is slightly different from earlier releases, but this being the latest collection of Elric books, I would assume this is the current, definitive order in which to read the series.

This collection contains four Elric books: The Vanishing Tower, The Revenge of the Rose, The Bane of the Black Sword, and Stormbringer. I reviewed these books separately and have reposted those reviews here.

This collection features a preface by Michael Chabon and, what might be truly exciting for Moorcock fans or Elric fans … a very detailed Reader’s Guide to Elric, listing when and where the stories and the books came out, including the different editions, different publishers, etc. This was almost as complicated as an Elric story but very rewarding for the fan.

Reviews of the four books below.

Looking for a good book? The collection of Elric books, Stormbringer: The Elric Saga Book 2, by Michael Moorcock is a little weak in the beginning but ends on a very strong note.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.

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Stormbringer

author: Michael Moorcock

series: The Elric Saga #2

publisher: Saga Press

ISBN: 9781534445710

hardcover, 851 pages

Individual book reviews:

The Vanishing Tower

Rated 2.5

It’s Elric time again, as I am working my way through the entire series.

As with the four previous Elric books, there are three ‘books’ between the covers – likely novellas or novelettes.

In the first, “The Torment of the Last Lord,” Elric and his faithful servant Sancho Moonglum head off to confront the evil wizard Theleb K’aarna but they are beset upon by strange and terrible monsters. They are ill prepared for this battle and Elric calls upon an ancient god to help them, but the god refuses and they are captured and his sword, Stormbringer, lost.  When they are taken away Elric finds a woman in coma who speaks to him (this is Moorcock, remember) and tells him many things, including where to find an item that will help him defeat the wizard’s army.  But that item is on the other side of the world, so Elric has to take a magical bird that she somehow supplies, after some effort finds the jewel that will help him defeat Theleb K’aarna, but also finds a jewel that should awaken the woman.

Battle ensues, Stormbringer returns, Theleb K’aarna flees, woman awakes, love is made.

The second ‘book’ in this volume is “To Snare the Pale Prince.” Elric and Moonglum are off in a quiet village recuperating from their recent adventure. They are nearly undefeatable when facing armies and evil wizards and maniacal kings, but the pair of them get hoodwinked by a couple of young ladies who steal the Ring of Actorios – the ring that Elric must use to summon supernatural assistance.

It is, of course, a ploy on the part of Theleb K’aarna and Elric and Moonglum will fight more monsters.

The final piece is “Three Heroes with a Single Aim.” Elric connects once again with other incarnations of the Eternal Champion to visit Tanelorn – the refuge for tormented souls. The three-in-one eternal champion must enter the Vanishing Tower together to defeat an evil wizard (but this time it’s not Theleb K’aarna).

While the 1977 edition of this book still sits on my shelf, I don’t remember if I read it or not.  There were times when the story seemed familiar, but I recognize that all three of these stories seem similar to stories in the previous volumes as well.

While I like the Eternal Champion theme, I recognize that it isn’t explained particularly well in the Elric books. In a nutshell – all the heroes (at least all of Moorcock’s heroes) are incarnations of the same person but in different realities and from time to time, they meet to fight together.  And as time runs differently in different realities they sometimes know each other and sometimes don’t.  Sometimes they remember shared battles that haven’t happened yet.  Yes, it’s all a bit metaphysical and the Elric books are often quite philosophical and existential.

This particular volume didn’t excite me too tremendously. There was either a lot of senseless fighting or a lot of brooding.  Sometimes at the same time.

For a short time I enjoyed the middle story, which, although a little ridiculous to have Elric and Moonglum taken in by your average prostitutes, was a little more on the relaxing side after all the heavy battling and brooding from the previous story, but then it, too, turned darker.

This is part of the Elric saga so I’m glad to have read it, but if I wasn’t a little OCD about book series, I’d probably have skipped it.

Looking for a good book? The Vanishing Tower is part of the Elric series by Michael Moorcock, and in that regard it is worth reading, but it’s not a particularly strong addition to the series.

I received a digital copy, as Volume 2 in The Elric Saga, from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.

The Revenge of the Rose

Rated 2.5

Three novellas in one title, as seems to be the pattern with the Elric books. “Concerning the Fate of Empires,” “Esbern Snare; The Northern Werewolf,” and “A Rose Redeemed; A Rose Revived.”

Elric, the albino prince of the doomed city of Melniboné still cavorts with his friend Moonglum when Elric is visited by a dragon who brings the prince to the ghost of Sadric his father. Sadric needs Elric to find his soul which is currently being kept in a wooden box in a land far away, and reunite spirit and soul. If Elric fails, he will be paired with Sadric’s ghost, at which time bad things will happen.

On his journey to find the lost soul, Elric will gain an ally – the warrior princess Rose. Elric and Rose have a mutual enemy, Charion, a high valued, undead agent of Chaos. They need to deal with Charion or Chaos will rule without check. But a couple of demons make it more challenging.

Just before completing his mission to restore Sadric with his soul, Elric learns that Rose’s involvement in the fight against Charion was all about revenge for what Charion had done, destroying her people.

I bought this book when it first came out but I’d not read it because I had fallen behind in reading the series at the time.  It was, I believe, the 8th book in the series then.  Now in this new definitive (?) collection, this becomes the 6th book in the Elric saga.

Elric has always been philosophical but I think there’s more talk and waxing philosophic in this volume than there is swordplay – and that’s not why we read these kinds of books. There is a little bit of high stakes conflict with Charion, but that almost feels secondary to Elric being able to reflect and get morose about the world.

This is not a strong addition to the series and I’m curious why it’s being moved up in the order of the books.

Looking for a good book? The Revenge of the Rose by Michael Moorcock is a late addition to the Elric saga, low on action but high on existential philosophy.

I received a digital copy of this book, as part of a collection, from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

The Bane of the Black Sword

Rated 3.0

The saga of the damned albino prince of Melniboné continues in another novel composed of three novellas in The Bane of the Black Sword. As the title might suggest, Elric’s cursed sword, the soul-drinking runeblade known as Stormbringer plays a larger part in this collection.

We have the ‘usual’ three novellas making up this book, with a short extra. The first of these novellas is “The Stealer of Souls” in which the albino king has his final (?) battle with Theleb Ka’arna, the evil wizard who has plagued Elric. Elric is helped by his old friend Dyvim Tvar and a small horde of dragons.

In “Kings in Darkness” Elric and Moonglum are on a hurried retreat from what must surely be a misunderstanding. Elric, who can slay wizards and demons with his soul-drinking sword, runs away from common soldiers. They find themselves in the dark Forest of Troos and Elric falls in love with the beautiful 17 year old Zarozinia.

“The Flamebringers” sees Elric looking to enjoy his time with his beautiful bride, Zarozinia, to whom he has promised he will not put his hands on his soul-drinking sword, but when you are a fated hero, life intervenes. Elric must face a million mad nomads raping their way toward him while also helping a sorcerer friend whose soul is trapped in the body of a black cat. (Yeah, isn’t fantasy great?)

There is also the “Epilogue: To Rescue Tanelorn” which might be the best part of the book even though Elric isn’t in the story.  Instead we get Rackhir the Red Archer who must protect Tanelorn (think of Tanelorn like Switzerland – it’s neutral territory for all sorts of mercenaries and rebels.  But it’s under threat from a wizard and the beggars he’s gathered as an army.

I am now in unchartered territory for me in the Elric series and I understand why.  These stories are beginning to feel quite the same.

There is some appeal to this – consistency and knowing what you’re going to get.  It’s the reason chain stores all look the same. And as a young reader, when these books were still being released new (I was 16 when this first came out), we didn’t have that immediacy of being able to read them all in a row (unless we waited for them all or re-read all the previous books) so knowing, in general, what we would get with the next book, was appealing.  But now, reading seven books – essentially in a row – it doesn’t hold the same appeal.

This book does seem to be more straight-forward.  In the Sword & Sorcery category, we have both – sword (that is magicked) and wizards and sorcerers aplenty and Elric does much less ruminating or brooding or philosophizing and I almost rather miss it – I mean that’s part of what really defines the brooding albino.

I think that this stands as a decent S&S story, and a decent addition to the Elric saga, but not outstanding, and for the hardcore Elric reader, reading all the books in a row, this might be a less-than-exciting, repetitive volume.

Looking for a good book? The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock is a volume of the Elric saga – where it falls in the saga depends on which collection you adhere to, but it does fall just a bit short of being truly unique and interesting.

I received a digital version of this book, as part of a larger collection, from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.

Stormbringer

Rated 4.5

In this collection of Elric novellas we have “Dead God’s Homecoming,” “Black Sword’s Brothers,” “Sad Giant’s Shield,” and “Doomed Lord’s Passing.”

In the first story, Elric’s wife, Zarozinia, is kidnapped by some beings out of chaos, on the behest of a resurrected god named Darnizhaan. Darnizhaan was killed by a soul-drinking Black Sword. Not Elric’s Stormbringer, but its twin, Mournblade. Darnizhaan wants both swords so that he doesn’t have to fear being killed again, and so that he can begin taking over the world. Elric, his companion Moonglum, and Mournblade’s owner, Dyvim Slorm, deliver the swords to Darnizhaan … but they have a little trick up their sleeves.

In “Black Sword’s Brothers” Elric learns that Stormbringer has the power to call upon its brothers (like Mournblade) to fight for it. Elric learns the secrets to make this happen, sending some of his opponents to an eternal death, but Elric loses his sword in the process and he’ll need to get it back as the sword feeds Elric, providing him with the sustenance he needs to survive. He succeeds in getting Stormbringer once again, and he heads off to rescue Moonglum.

Elric and Moonglum head off to fight Jagreen Lern, who is amassing an army to take control of large swaths of land. They learn of a giant who own s a Chaos Shield, which would come in real handy in the battle against Jagreen Lern so they go to get it. Along the way, while aboard a ship, a storm nearly has them drown when tossed from the ship, but they are saved by Straasha, Lord of the Sea. They get the shield, go off to battle and Elric is ready to confront his foes when he discovers Zarozinia who has been transformed into a giant worm. Distraught, she kills herself on Elric’s sword.

And finally, a strange end with “Doomed Lord’s Passing.” Elric and his band of friends and fighters head back to Melnibone. To put a stop to Chaos, Elric will need to blow the Horn of Fate. Blowing it once will awaken dragons. Blowing it twice will bring the White Lords. And blowing three times will end the world. But as Fate would have it, Elric is completely exhausted and drained and is unable to muster the strength to blow the horn three times and there no one near enough for him to kill in order for Stormbringer to give him energy … except for Moonglum. What will Elric do?

This was a really strong collection, and everything we’ve liked about Elric and Stormbringer and Moonglum are present along with some moments we’ve seen before that are quite moving (the inability to save a loved one and having Elric’s precious sword being the cause of their death).

I’m quite certain I read this back in the 70’s (buying it just as much for Michael Whelan’s beautiful cover as for the story within) but I didn’t remember most of the specifics.

Stormbringer has more and more a curiosity throughout the books, and it makes sense to have these four stories together which feature Stormbringer most prominently.

This book definitely feels like the end of the series, and in that sense I’m missing one element … the Eternal Champion. We’ve touched on this theme in earlier books and I would have liked to have had that a little bit more here, but I do recognize that this likely comes from the fact that I’ve now read eight of the books almost one right after another, so this is a little more prominent to me.

This is probably one of my more favorite books in the series, but I’d highly recommend reading some of the other books first, to get a feel for Elric and his compatriots, before jumping into this.

Looking for a good book? Stormbringer, by Michael Moorcock, sees the albino king of Melnibone in a Ragnarok-like battle to save the world from Chaos.

STORMBRINGER – Michael Moorcock

Posted by Daniel on January 5, 2023
Posted in: SF/FANTASY, SHORT FICTION, Uncategorized. Tagged: 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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In this collection of Elric novellas we have “Dead God’s Homecoming,” “Black Sword’s Brothers,” “Sad Giant’s Shield,” and “Doomed Lord’s Passing.”

 

In the first story, Elric’s wife, Zarozinia, is kidnapped by some beings out of chaos, on the behest of a resurrected god named Darnizhaan. Darnizhaan was killed by a soul-drinking Black Sword. Not Elric’s Stormbringer, but its twin, Mournblade. Darnizhaan wants both swords so that he doesn’t have to fear being killed again, and so that he can begin taking over the world. Elric, his companion Moonglum, and Mournblade’s owner, Dyvim Slorm, deliver the swords to Darnizhaan … but they have a little trick up their sleeves.

In “Black Sword’s Brothers” Elric learns that Stormbringer has the power to call upon its brothers (like Mournblade) to fight for it. Elric learns the secrets to make this happen, sending some of his opponents to an eternal death, but Elric loses his sword in the process and he’ll need to get it back as the sword feeds Elric, providing him with the sustenance he needs to survive. He succeeds in getting Stormbringer once again, and he heads off to rescue Moonglum.

Elric and Moonglum head off to fight Jagreen Lern, who is amassing an army to take control of large swaths of land. They learn of a giant who own s a Chaos Shield, which would come in real handy in the battle against Jagreen Lern so they go to get it. Along the way, while aboard a ship, a storm nearly has them drown when tossed from the ship, but they are saved by Straasha, Lord of the Sea. They get the shield, go off to battle and Elric is ready to confront his foes when he discovers Zarozinia who has been transformed into a giant worm. Distraught, she kills herself on Elric’s sword.

And finally, a strange end with “Doomed Lord’s Passing.” Elric and his band of friends and fighters head back to Melnibone. To put a stop to Chaos, Elric will need to blow the Horn of Fate. Blowing it once will awaken dragons. Blowing it twice will bring the White Lords. And blowing three times will end the world. But as Fate would have it, Elric is completely exhausted and drained and is unable to muster the strength to blow the horn three times and there no one near enough for him to kill in order for Stormbringer to give him energy … except for Moonglum. What will Elric do?

This was a really strong collection, and everything we’ve liked about Elric and Stormbringer and Moonglum are present along with some moments we’ve seen before that are quite moving (the inability to save a loved one and having Elric’s precious sword being the cause of their death).

I’m quite certain I read this back in the 70’s (buying it just as much for Michael Whelan’s beautiful cover as for the story within) but I didn’t remember most of the specifics.

Stormbringer has more and more a curiosity throughout the books, and it makes sense to have these four stories together which feature Stormbringer most prominently.

This book definitely feels like the end of the series, and in that sense I’m missing one element … the Eternal Champion. We’ve touched on this theme in earlier books and I would have liked to have had that a little bit more here, but I do recognize that this likely comes from the fact that I’ve now read eight of the books almost one right after another, so this is a little more prominent to me.  

This is probably one of my more favorite books in the series, but I’d highly recommend reading some of the other books first, to get a feel for Elric and his compatriots, before jumping into this.

Looking for a good book? Stormbringer, by Michael Moorcock, sees the albino king of Melnibone in a Ragnarok-like battle to save the world from Chaos.

I received a digital copy of this book, as part of a collection of Elric books, from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.

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Stormbringer

author: Michael Moorcock

series: The Elric Saga (#6), Tale of the Eternal Champion (#12), Elric Chronological Order (#9), The Eternal Champion Sequence (#11.6)

publisher: DAW

ISBN: 9780879973353

paperback, 220 pages

THE BANE OF THE BLACK SWORD – Michael Moorcock

Posted by Daniel on January 4, 2023
Posted in: SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized. Tagged: 3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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The saga of the damned albino prince of Melniboné continues in another novel composed of three novellas in The Bane of the Black Sword. As the title might suggest, Elric’s cursed sword, the soul-drinking runeblade known as Stormbringer plays a larger part in this collection.

We have the ‘usual’ three novellas making up this book, with a short extra. The first of these novellas is “The Stealer of Souls” in which the albino king has his final (?) battle with Theleb Ka’arna, the evil wizard who has plagued Elric. Elric is helped by his old friend Dyvim Tvar and a small horde of dragons.

In “Kings in Darkness” Elric and Moonglum are on a hurried retreat from what must surely be a misunderstanding. Elric, who can slay wizards and demons with his soul-drinking sword, runs away from common soldiers. They find themselves in the dark Forest of Troos and Elric falls in love with the beautiful 17 year old Zarozinia.

“The Flamebringers” sees Elric looking to enjoy his time with his beautiful bride, Zarozinia, to whom he has promised he will not put his hands on his soul-drinking sword, but when you are a fated hero, life intervenes. Elric must face a million mad nomads raping their way toward him while also helping a sorcerer friend whose soul is trapped in the body of a black cat. (Yeah, isn’t fantasy great?)

There is also the “Epilogue: To Rescue Tanelorn” which might be the best part of the book even though Elric isn’t in the story.  Instead we get Rackhir the Red Archer who must protect Tanelorn (think of Tanelorn like Switzerland – it’s neutral territory for all sorts of mercenaries and rebels.  But it’s under threat from a wizard and the beggars he’s gathered as an army.

I am now in unchartered territory for me in the Elric series and I understand why.  These stories are beginning to feel quite the same.

There is some appeal to this – consistency and knowing what you’re going to get.  It’s the reason chain stores all look the same. And as a young reader, when these books were still being released new (I was 16 when this first came out), we didn’t have that immediacy of being able to read them all in a row (unless we waited for them all or re-read all the previous books) so knowing, in general, what we would get with the next book, was appealing.  But now, reading seven books – essentially in a row – it doesn’t hold the same appeal.

This book does seem to be more straight-forward.  In the Sword & Sorcery category, we have both – sword (that is magicked) and wizards and sorcerers aplenty and Elric does much less ruminating or brooding or philosophizing and I almost rather miss it – I mean that’s part of what really defines the brooding albino.

I think that this stands as a decent S&S story, and a decent addition to the Elric saga, but not outstanding, and for the hardcore Elric reader, reading all the books in a row, this might be a less-than-exciting, repetitive volume.

Looking for a good book? The Bane of the Black Sword by Michael Moorcock is a volume of the Elric saga – where it falls in the saga depends on which collection you adhere to, but it does fall just a bit short of being truly unique and interesting.

I received a digital version of this book, as part of a larger collection, from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.

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The Bane of the Black Sword

author: Michael Moorcock

series: The Elric Saga #5; Elric Chronological Order #8

publisher: (1977) DAW; (2022) Saga Press

ISBN: (1977) 9780879974213; (2022)  9781534445710

paperback, (1977) 157 pages/hardcover, (2022) 851 pages

THE REVENGE OF THE ROSE – Michael Moorcock

Posted by Daniel on January 3, 2023
Posted in: SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized. Tagged: 3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, SF/Fantasy. Leave a comment

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Three novellas in one title, as seems to be the pattern with the Elric books. “Concerning the Fate of Empires,” “Esbern Snare; The Northern Werewolf,” and “A Rose Redeemed; A Rose Revived.”

Elric, the albino prince of the doomed city of Melniboné still cavorts with his friend Moonglum when Elric is visited by a dragon who brings the prince to the ghost of Sadric his father. Sadric needs Elric to find his soul which is currently being kept in a wooden box in a land far away, and reunite spirit and soul. If Elric fails, he will be paired with Sadric’s ghost, at which time bad things will happen.

On his journey to find the lost soul, Elric will gain an ally – the warrior princess Rose. Elric and Rose have a mutual enemy, Charion, a high valued, undead agent of Chaos. They need to deal with Charion or Chaos will rule without check. But a couple of demons make it more challenging.

Just before completing his mission to restore Sadric with his soul, Elric learns that Rose’s involvement in the fight against Charion was all about revenge for what Charion had done, destroying her people.

I bought this book when it first came out but I’d not read it because I had fallen behind in reading the series at the time.  It was, I believe, the 8th book in the series then.  Now in this new definitive (?) collection, this becomes the 6th book in the Elric saga.

Elric has always been philosophical but I think there’s more talk and waxing philosophic in this volume than there is swordplay – and that’s not why we read these kinds of books. There is a little bit of high stakes conflict with Charion, but that almost feels secondary to Elric being able to reflect and get morose about the world.

This is not a strong addition to the series and I’m curious why it’s being moved up in the order of the books.

Looking for a good book? The Revenge of the Rose by Michael Moorcock is a late addition to the Elric saga, low on action but high on existential philosophy.

I received a digital copy of this book, as part of a collection, from the publisher, through Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

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The Revenge of the Rose

author: Michael Moorcock

series: The Elric Saga #9, The Elric Saga #6

publisher: Saga Press (2022 collection); Ace (1991 edition)

ISBN: 9781534445710 (2022 edition);  9780441718443 (1991 edition)

hardcover, 851 pages (2022); 244 pages (1991)

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