SF/Fantasy
a science fiction or fantasy book
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GABRIEL FINLEY AND THE RAVEN’S RIDDLE – George Hagen
I was really excited to read this book … enough so that I bumped it way up on my reading schedule … but am disappointed in the outcome. This book feels like a very one-note story that grew a bit tedious. The story: Twelve-year-old Gabriel Finley’s father has been missing for a number of years… Continue reading
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THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH – Jennifer L. Holm
The Newbery Medal is the top prize in American literature for children. Having read a great number of Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor books, I can tell you that there’s a common ingredient among them all. That ingredient is ‘education.’ Every book I’ve read finds a way to teach the reader a little something in the… Continue reading
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STAR WARS: JEDI ACADEMY, RETURN OF THE PADAWAN – Jeffrey Brown
How do you hook early readers who are raised in a culture of social media and at-your-finger-tips-videos? You hook them with books such as this, Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan. Roan is in his second year of Jedi training and young Roan deals with everything that the average middle schooler has to deal with… Continue reading
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METEOR MEN – graphic novel
It is books like Meteor Men that have restored my faith in the graphic novel as a literary form. This book is beautiful to look at and delightful to read. To me, this is precisely what the graphic novel medium is intended to be. I know that the bulk of the graphic novels out there… Continue reading
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BLOODLIGHT: THE APOCALYPSE OF ROBERT GOLDNER – Harambee K. Grey-Sun
Writing jacket copy and ad copy about a book can be an art form that rivals the writing of a book itself. In this case, the paragraphs about the book are much more interesting than the book itself. Bloodlight is actually two books. The first book, which takes 80% of the book, is about high… Continue reading
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THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF THE YEAR: VOLUME EIGHT – Jonathan Strahan, editor
I really enjoy reading short stories. It used to be that I subscribed to just about every science fiction and fantasy magazine on the market, just because of the volume of short stories i could then read. But of course as time went on, my reading time dwindled and about the same time, more and… Continue reading
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THE MARTIAN – Andy Weir
It is going to be hard for me to pick a ‘best book of the year’ with all the quality books I’ve managed to read of late. This will definitely be in the running! Astronaut/botanist/engineer Mark Watley is stranded on Mars when a mission is aborted and Watley is (believably) presumed dead. Thus begins a… Continue reading
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MORNINGSIDE FALL – Jay Posey
**WARNING — POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD (FOR BOTH THIS AND THE PREVIOUS BOOK IN THE SERIES THREE** I raved, not too long ago, about Three, the first book of the Legends of the Dustwalker series by Jay Posey and I was both excited and fearfully nervous about starting this second book. After all, Three was so good,… Continue reading
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DRAGONWRITER: A TRIBUTE TO ANNE MCCAFFREY AND PERN – Todd McCaffrey, editor
BIOGRAPHY WEEK REVIEWS It is very possible that I am the only person who will read this book who has never read a single “Pern” book in the Anne McCaffreey canon. I am, of course, familiar with the books…in large part due to the awesome covers by Michael Whelan, whose art I relished at a… Continue reading
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THE BULLET-CATCHER’S DAUGHTER – Rod Duncan
Often, when I pick up a new book, by an author who is unfamiliar to me, there is both a sense of excitement, wonderment, but also a little sense of dread, wondering what I might be about to throw myself in to. It’s a game of trust betwen me, the author, the editor, and the… Continue reading
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DINOTOPIA: FIRST FLIGHT: 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION – James Gurney
THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE A number of years back (I’m not sure precisely when) I reviewed this book on Goodreads — not the 20th Anniversary Edition, but the original edition. At the time, as a bookseller, I was very impressed with the Dinotopia series of books and recommended them often. However, this particular book… Continue reading
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BLACK SCIENCE, VOLUME 1: HOW TO FALL FOREVER – graphic novel
The premise for this graphic novel/comic series is really wonderful. A team of scientist have developed a dimension-traveling machine. It works well, except that they can’t control where it will take them. We start the first book right in the thick of things, with two dimension-hoppers running for their lives from some very unusual looking… Continue reading
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