Sunday, June 24, 2012
HebrewPunk - Lavie Tidhar
Or even Weird Tales.
HebrewPunk : The Heist - Lavie Tidhar
HebrewPunk : Transylvania Mission - Lavie Tidhar
HebrewPunk : Uganda - Lavie Tidhar
HebrewPunk : The Dope Fiend - Lavie Tidhar
Damn, holy water sprinklers.
3.5 out of 5
For the wolf commandos. Yeah, nazi werewolves. The usual.
3.5 out of 5
Chaliko trip.
3 out of 5
Immortal dead swap, Tzaddik.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Machineries of Silence - Steven Savile
A short, solid fantasy collection.
Machineries of Silence : The Song Her Heart Sang - Steven Savile
Machineries of Silence : Night of Falling Stars - Steven Savile
Machineries of Silence : Ghosts of Love - Steven Savile
Machineries of Silence : The Odalisque - Steven Savile
Give her the rock.
3 out of 5
Ash and kinslayer release.
3.5 out of 5
Not going to leave, Atynia.
3.5 out of 5
Only Suli.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Wild Things - Douglas Clegg
At 3.50 a rather good short horror collection.
Wild Things : The Wolf - Douglas Clegg
Wild Things : A Madness of Starlings - Douglas Clegg
Wild Things : The American - Douglas Clegg
Wild Things : The Dark Game - Douglas Clegg
Hunting instructions, sheep boy.
3.5 out of 5
Fledge loss.
3.5 out of 5
Absinthe-lootly obliteration seeking assassination.
4 out of 5
Hoax and Axeman.
3 out of 5
4 out of 5
Starlady and Fast-Friend - George R. R. Martin
A story double.
Starlady and Fast Friend : Starlady - George R. R. Martin
Starlady and Fast Friend : Fast Friend - George R. R. Martin
Golden Boy is gone.
3 out of 5
Angel trap run.
3 out of 5
2.5 out of 5
Shivers of Delight - Jenna Byrnes
Double spooky story collection.
Shivers of Delight : Sweet Reunion - Jenna Byrnes
Shivers of Delight : Saving Grace - Jenna Byrnes
Old school style.
3 out of 5
Dog style.
3 out of 5
2.5 out of 5
Halloween Candy - Douglas Clegg
A short horror collection.
Halloween Candy : Where Flies Are Born - Douglas Clegg
Halloween Candy : The Machinery of Night - Douglas Clegg
Halloween Candy : 265 and Heaven - Douglas Clegg
Joey's not dead.
3 out of 5
Lifesavers thing.
3.5 out of 5
Dead room addition.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
The Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels - Maxim Jakubowski
An anthology of novellas, none of particular note with a handful of good.
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : Night Moves - Michael Perkins
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : Hotel Room Fuck - Maxim Jakubowski
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : Spanking The Maid - Robert Coover
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : Lair Of The Red Witch - O'neil De Noux
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : The Banishing - Mark Ramsden
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : De Sade's Last Stand - William T. Vollmann
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : Speaking Parts - M. Christian
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : The Comfort Of Women - Michael Hemmingson
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : Thief Of Names - Lucy Taylor
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : The Darkling Beetles - Gene Santagada
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : Scratch - Nikki Dillon
Mammoth Book Of Short Erotic Novels : The Emperor Of Night - Marilyn Jaye-Lewiss
Holiday couple.
3 out of 5
Master history.
2.5 out of 5
Smack ow.
2.5 out of 5
Love Sorceress child.
3 out of 5
Advertising for one who can take it.
3.5 out of 5
Bad Asian trip.
2 out of 5
Pell Arc artificial.
3 out of 5
Book connection.
3.5 out of 5
Crime cheat disease.
3.5 out of 5
TransWorld stratoliner EOS fear.
3 out of 5
Devil honesty.
3 out of 5
Pearl production.
3 out of 5
2 out of 5
Regret Incorporated and Other Very Very Short Stories - R. J. Astruc
SF flash fiction collection.
Regret Incorporated : XVI and Deek Escape in the Night - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Judge Jury - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Horror Game Review - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Rabbits and Americans in the Town of Yan - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : What the Pauper Did Next - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Deviation - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Words in White - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Wifetime - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Through Walls - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Diacon - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Miss Shen - R. J. Astruc
Regret Incorporated : Regret Incorporated - R. J. Astruc
Crazy work.
3 out of 5
Pedophile execution possibility.
3 out of 5
Indy Black.
3 out of 5
Vermin kombi.
2.5 out of 5
Seal had.
2.5 out of 5
Left-handed. Just sorta evil.
3 out of 5
AI dullness.
3 out of 5
Trying to live up to.
2.5 out of 5
Dodgy implants.
3 out of 5
Sprite, like Christine.
3 out of 5
Invincibility expiration.
3 out of 5
Time travel form.
3 out of 5
2. out of 5
Saturday, June 23, 2012
How We Left The Desert and Other Stories - R. J. Astruc
A short SF collection.
How We Left the Desert : How We Left The Desert - R. J. Astruc
How We Left the Desert : In The Shadow of Kakadu - R. J. Astruc
How We Left the Desert : Greenwich Mean Time Plus - R. J. Astruc
How We Left the Desert : The Vanishing Project - R. J. Astruc
Trouble with time.
3.5 out of 5
Alien spirit.
3 out of 5
Punk ride.
3 out of 5
Double vortex wanna leave.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Like A Thorn - Cecilia Tan
The better sort of fractured fairy tale.
Like A Thorn : Cinder Feet - Mari Ness
Like A Thorn : The Princess and Peony - Mercy Loomis
Like A Thorn : The Last Mistress of the Chatelaine - Kieran Wyn Dewhurst
Like A Thorn : That Wicked Witchcraft - Sunny Moraine
Like A Thorn : Skin Deep - Shanna Germain
Dealing with the rest of her.
3 out of 5
Sleeping and washing.
3 out of 5
Marriage servant not in the room full of dead.
3.5 out of 5
Circe busts a pair of crims.
3.5 out of 5
Beast tied.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
The Last Mistress Of The Chatelaine - Kieran Wyn Dewhurst
Marriage servant not in the room full of dead.
3.5 out of 5
Final Orbit - Nigel Brown
The decommissioning of the American space station and being outstripped by other countries leads to the final commander discovering some unusual sabotage.
3.5 out of 5
Fisher's Gambit - Stephen Gaskell
A desperate Kuiper Belt prospector separated from family takes AI fake genius bait.
4 out of 5
Tell Me A Story - Leigh Kimmel
The Man in the Moon kid's book gets used going into the future.
3.5 out of 5
Adrift on the Sea of Rains - Ian Sales
An alternate history of a Cold War that escalated into apocalypse. A hotshot fighter pilot (of the not so mythical SR-91 Blackbird successor in this reality) and colonel responsible for a shootdown incident that helped heighten tensions is given a command of the US moonbase. The apocalypse part happens while they are there. So the small contingent of nine men manning the base is cut off.
To make things weirder, they have the Nazi Bell. Here they can use the strange advanced energy device to cross worlds with a bit of jerryrigging. A functioning Earth is what they need to find to survive given their lack of supplies.
As an added bonus this short book has appendices that list all the Apollo missions for this story, the terminology and also a reading list of fictional and real space science work of interest.
All in all, this is excellent. Ebook, hardback or paperback, take your pick.
4.5 out of 5
Friday, June 22, 2012
Officer Needs Help - David Sullivan
A cop struggles with identity in seventies San Francisco.
3 out of 5
Serial Killers Incorporated - Andy Remic
A degenerate muckracking reporter gets himself mixed up in an otherworldly serial killer recruiter vs hunter of conflict thanks to falling prey to the wife of a Romanian gangster. Murder and mayhem ensue.
3.5 out of 5
Shedding Skin: Two Tales of Horror and Identity - Julian Darius
A two-story horror collection.
Shedding Skin : Shedding Skin - Julian Darius
Shedding Skin : Inherited Things - Julian Darius
Old ritual breakdown lizard.
3.5 out of 5
Old family chains.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
The Good The Bad and the Ugly - Bev Vincent
About eight secondary characters from the Dark Tower series.
3 out of 5
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig
A low-rent itinerant drifter with a troubled past is somewhat out of the ordinary. When she touches people she will see exactly how and when they will die, if not exactly where. A smart and entertainingly foul-mouthed and black humoured young lass she gets into even more trouble than a life of paint stripper booze and petty crime of opportunity.
A con artist spots her as a potential partner. A con artist with a load of appropriated drugs and a rather nasty pair of sociopathic henchpeople after him.
This horror crime story is rather better than it sounds for the main character. A very good book.
4 out of 5
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Like Twin Stars - Kelly Clark
A very rare beast, a short anthology of bisexual erotic science fiction and fantasy.
Like Twin Stars : The Dancers' War - N. K. Jemisin
Like Twin Stars : Incubus Succubus - Neil James Hudson
Like Twin Stars : The Travesties - Giselle Renarde
Clan challenge.
3.5 out of 5
Demon visit maturation.
3.5 out of 5
Intersex it is.
3.5 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
Monday, June 4, 2012
Universe 07 - Terry Carr
At a paltry 2.94 nothing of real interest here.
Universe 07 : A Rite Of Spring - Fritz Leiber
Universe 07 : My Lady Of The Psychiatric Sorrows - Brian W. Aldiss
Universe 07 : Probability Storm - Julian Reid
Universe 07 : People Reviews - Robert Chilson
Universe 07 : Ibid - George Alec Effinger
Universe 07 : The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton - Gene Wolfe
Universe 07 : Brain Fever Season - R. A. Lafferty
Universe 07 : The Ninth Symphony Of Ludwig Van Beethoven And Other Lost Songs - Carter Scholz
Seven times too long.
3 out of 5
Old peasant.
3 out of 5
Fat Man anomaly.
3.5 out of 5
Recording syndrome.
2 out of 5
Getting tired of reading.
2.5 out of 5
Robot scam bad for person inside it.
3.5 out of 5
Comes and goes.
3 out of 5
Past composer time.
3 out of 5
2 out of 5
Thebes of the Hundred Gates - Robert Silverberg
Back in time to the real Egypt and the death industry.
3 out of 5
Ink In the Veins: Stephen King Biography - Kevin Quigley
Stuff about Stephen King nerdery.
3 out of 5
Beware! The Scientist's Revolt - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Assuria spy assassin fun, with the odd princess.
2.5 out of 5
Wetware: Stephen King Digital - Kevin Quigley
Giving details and esoterica about such projects as The Plant for Stephen King nerds.
3 out of 5
Further: Beyond the Threshold - Chris Roberson
A far future space opera with a Buck Rogers twist. A generation ship commander on a long-term cryomission to a nearby star wakes up and finds out that he has slept a long time by quite a lot of millenia.
This interstellar Entelechy consists of members both human and artificial and his being found and revived provides novelty and a chance to gain the funding for building an actual expensive and experiment FTL ship to complement the realy, really slow expansion by sublight wormhole towing they currently experience.
Complete with chimpanzee surgeon, orca engineer and robot astrogator with our Buck Rogers elected to be captain by the AI majority shareholders.
Exploration time to desirable destinations of course can meet with nasty opposition, even in a utopian setting.
3.5 out of 5
Skulldoggery - Fletcher Flora
Funny crime novel about the fight over an estate after a grandfather leaves everything to his family - on the proviso that his chihuahua is looked after as well as her pups, or no inheritance.
3.5 out of 5
Hex - Allen M. Steele
A bored starship captain gets an offer. The inscrutable aliens the Coyote humans had never talked to apparently have some real estate going. Which doesn't make sense as there are no habitable planets in their system.
What they do have is a several millenia long Dyson Sphere project crossed with the Well World and some strict rules for this family reunion contact mission.
3.5 out of 5
Harvest Moon - James A. Moore
Here's your baby eating evil seductress witch breeding supernatural monster children to assist with her reincarnation later on. After she gets torn apart by wild horses.
Patches, Old Bones and Jack (yes, the pumpkin head variety) have some fun with the local townspeople in the present at Halloween as they gather the bits and pieces (and whole ones) of people needed to reproduce mother dearest. In the face of some opposition, at least.
3.5 out of 5
Werewolf's Grief - Robert W. Walker
Stroud is now a go-to occult guy for solving problems. Getting called back from a dig he is asked to assist with some animal-style slaughters. This time, enough werewolves that he needs to hire mercenary help along with his other colleagues.
3.5 out of 5
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Dead Harvest - Chris F. Holm
Who has a crappy kind of job? Those that have to collect nasty dead people, or people that need to be dead, or ex-souled.
Particularly when you get sent after a young woman who apparently gleefully painfully massacred her whole family in a place that you really don't like.
Even worse when that places you in the middle of covert demon and angel power plays leading you to going on the run with someone who may be a psycho killer that impresses demons.
3.5 out of 5
Vampire Dreams - Robert W. Walker
Abraham Stroud is now an ex-detective, seizures and psychic phenomena and a metal plate in the head thanks to a military history cause him to give it up.
A wealthy grandfather leaving him a legacy changes things. It turns out this grandpa of the same opinion as the one in the Lost Boys, personally out to do something about it in his town of Andover.
Wherein a clever vampire leader has worked up an artificial blood supply that protects from the sun while still allowing them their powers, even if their longevity is waning.
Good old occult detective monster fighting chaos to be had here.
3.5 out of 5
Demon's Gate - Steve White
Crazy types want to bring back demons in this bronze age fantasy world. Bad gods, good gods, priestesses, a couple of stalwart warriors and your wizard type.
3 out of 5
Sign of the Labrys - Margaret St Clair
Postapocalyptic wiccan science fantasy. Disease has blighted humanity making them unable to stand each other for long periods of time. Underground society, enmities, high priestess with secrets for a treatment to be found, etc.
3 out of 5
SIM - Andy Remic
The world is apparently infested with disease - which means people are born blind if not implanted with mechanical eyes. Whether ordinary person or cyborg soldier servant manufactured by brutality.
In this Orwellian dystopia perhaps this is not completely true and perhaps it is worse than it seems. One SIM soldier with a cat and his treatment will change things, violently.
3.5 out of 5
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