Firebirds - Sharyn November

False advertising you could call this. The cover says Fantasy and Science Fiction, except there is none of the latter.

Unless you call the plane story a really inconsequential sort of alternate history perhaps, or Garth Nix's superhero Western.

If you are looking for SF, do not buy this book.

Whoever wrote the cover needs a whack upside the head.


On the whole it appears to be aimed at kids going by what the editor is saying, and that appears to be the case as this is very lightweight stuff.

Firebirds : Cotillion - Delia Sherman
Firebirds : The Baby in the Night Deposit Box - Megan Whalen Turner
Firebirds : Beauty - Sherwood Smith
Firebirds : Mariposa - Nancy Springer
Firebirds : Max Mondrosch - Lloyd Alexander
Firebirds : The Fall of Ys - Meredith Ann Pierce
Firebirds : Medusa - Michael Cadnum
Firebirds : Byndley - Patricia A. McKillip
Firebirds : The Lady of the Ice Garden - Kara Dalkey
Firebirds : Hope Chest - Garth Nix
Firebirds : Chasing the Wind - Elizabeth E. Wein
Firebirds : Little Dot - Diana Wynne Jones
Firebirds : Remember Me - Nancy Farmer
Firebirds : Flotsam - Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Firebirds : The Flying Woman - Laurel Winter


Hell boy tithe grapple rescue.

3 out of 5


Bank life inheritance withdrawal.

3 out of 5


Tree bloke.

2.5 out of 5


Soulless upbringing.

3 out of 5


Job description.

3.5 out of 5


Riddle me this deadman.

2.5 out of 5


Reptile garden ornament.

2.5 out of 5


Wizard vs King and Queen a bit rough.

2.5 out of 5


Tengu shafting.

3.5 out of 5


Superspeed shootist sheriff slays sister on the way to silver bullet showdown with supervillain shyster.

3.5 out of 5


Plane advance.

3 out of 5


Cat overload.

3 out of 5


Soul asylum.

3 out of 5


Elfgate.

3 out of 5


Magic, the gathering.

2.5 out of 5





2 out of 5