Monday, July 30, 2012
A Rip Through Time - David Cranmer
Fun anthology of linked stories of cross-time pursuit of mad scientist and femme fatale.
Rip Through Time : The Dame the Doctor and the Device - Chris F. Holm
Rip Through Time : Battles Broadswords and Bad Girls - Charles A. Gramlich
Rip Through Time : Chaos in the Stream - Garnett Elliott
Rip Through Time : Darkling in the Eternal Space - Chad Eagleton
Rip Through Time : The Final Painting of Hawley Exton - Chad Eagleton
Dr Berlin creates rip problem for Rip.
3.5 out of 5
Dr Berlin does a Merlin turn.
3 out of 5
Hemingway and the Scorpion Pit.
3 out of 5
Tesla and the end of time.
3.5 out of 5
Odd titler ending.
3.5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
The Dame The Doctor and the Device - Chris F. Holm
Dr Berlin creates rip problem for Rip.
3.5 out of 5
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Women In Deep Time - Greg Bear
A two story themed collection.
Women In Deep Time : Sisters - Greg Bear
Women In Deep Time : Hardfought - Greg Bear
Designer defect death.
3.5 out of 5
Spacehawk history problems.
4 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
Dragons: The Greatest Stories - Martin H. Greenberg
A poor anthology at under 3.
Dragons the Greatest Stories : Berlin - Charles de Lint
Dragons the Greatest Stories : The Champion of Dragons - Mickey Zucker Reichert
Dragons the Greatest Stories : The Flight of the LZ-D1 - Brian McNaughton
Dragons the Greatest Stories : Between Tomatoes and Snapdragons - Jane Lindskold
Dragons the Greatest Stories : Saint Willibald's Dragon - Esther Friesner
Dragons the Greatest Stories : The Hidden Dragon - Barbara Delaplace
Dragons the Greatest Stories : The Dragonbone Flute - Lois Tilton
Borderlands gang.
3 out of 5
Slice decision.
3 out of 5
Spy and zeppelin bomber.
3.5 out of 5
Peppery little lizard.
3 out of 5
Treasure and other legend.
2.5 out of 5
Weredragon kill.
3 out of 5
Piping them down.
2 out of 5
2 out of 5
Thrice Told Tales - Robert W. Walker
An ok collection of short horror and crime stories.
Thrice Told Tales : 500 Words - Robert W. Walker
Thrice Told Tales : Bat Guano - Robert W. Walker
Thrice Told Tales : Zomflies - Robert W. Walker
Thrice Told Tales : A Snitch in Time - Robert W. Walker
Thrice Told Tales : Pet Project - Robert W. Walker
Thrice Told Tales : Rules of Fog - Robert W. Walker
Thrice Told Tales : The Unread - Robert W. Walker
Thrice Told Tales : Stump Grinder - Robert W. Walker
Werewolf drop.
2.5 out of 5
In my head.
3 out of 5
Rotten rights.
3 out of 5
Plane assassin chance.
3.5 out of 5
Butcher killed slow.
3.5 out of 5
A military murder and an ice pick in Jessica Coran’s life.
3.5 out of 5
Spook naked.
3 out of 5
Good for vampire disposal.
3.5 out of 5
3 out of 5
Nothing But the Boots - Sommer Marsden
Or one purple one and a kimono for a while, greeting for the new underling.
3.5 out of 5
Friday, July 27, 2012
Quest For Sex Truth and Reality - Edward Lee
A short collection of Lee esoterica.
Quest For Sex Truth and Reality : The Seeker - Edward Lee
Quest For Sex Truth and Reality : Pay Me - Edward Lee
Quest For Sex Truth and Reality : The Goddess of the New Dark Age - Edward Lee
Pizza vomit writer.
3 out of 5
Reunion Do-Horse and job.
3.5 out of 5
Ghost real.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
Butt In - Landon Dixon
A decent enough short collection, even with a spy story.
Butt In : Butt In - Landon Dixon
Butt In : Engines of the Night - Landon Dixon
Butt In : Hunk-hunk! - Landon Dixon
Butt In : Massaging the Truth - Landon Dixon
Butt In : Agony Uncle - Landon Dixon
Beach bottom.
3 out of 5
Tailpipe time.
2.5 out of 5
Football photography loosening.
3.5 out of 5
CIA sting love.
3.5 out of 5
Strict job interview requirements.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
Bring It Back Home - Niall Griffiths
Cakes, a girl, drugs in doughnuts, a baby, bad things and occasional fish and chips.
3.5 out of 5
Possession Obsession and a Diesel Compression Engine - Gerard Brennan
Solid, short and often funny horror collection.
Possession Obsession and a Diesele Compression Engine : Blood Bath - Gerard Brennan
Possession Obsession and a Diesele Compression Engine : Steele Guitar - Gerard Brennan
Possession Obsession and a Diesele Compression Engine : 925 - Gerard Brennan
Possession Obsession and a Diesele Compression Engine : Road Rage - Gerard Brennan
Possession Obsession and a Diesele Compression Engine : An Irish PossessionWould you be Interested? - Gerard Brennan
Accountant is better than lawyer.
4 out of 5
Screaming riff talented beginner devil.
3.5 out of 5
No head hook and tasty colleague.
3 out of 5
Crazy Freddy sunk.
3 out of 5
Belfast exorcised first boy.
3 out of 5
I need your life Tim.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Game Ball - Landon Dixon
A reasonable short collection.
Game Ball : Game Ball - Landon Dixon
Game Ball : Pulped - Landon Dixon
Game Ball : Men of the Open Road - Landon Dixon
Game Ball : Sunnyside Up - Landon Dixon
Game Ball : Blue vs Brown - Landon Dixon
Indoor soccer score.
3 out of 5
A double for Brian.
3.5 out of 5
Young and old pickup.
3 out of 5
Different fishing pole, farm.
3 out of 5
Delivery mano-a-mano.
3 out of 5
3 out of 5
After the Sabines - Sarah A. Hoyt
A man is looking for his wife after a gender balance shifting virus is introduced into the Chinese population, leading them to attack the USA to get more women.
4 out of 5
Thursday, July 26, 2012
A Guy Walks Into A Bar - Lee Child
Reacher intervenes, punchwise, with two thugs, a boy and a girl.
3 out of 5
Going Topless - Renee Knowles
A couple of sisters take a holiday and go not very crazy.
2.5 out of 5
Bluebeard - Selena Kitt
A collection discovery leads to taking up with the import spouse.
3 out of 5
The Dogs of Riga - Henning Mankell
At the time of just before the collapse of the Soviet Union two bodies wash up in Sweden, leading Detective Kurt Wallander to a solo dangerous spylike investigation in Latvia amidst a power struggle in the police department in Riga.
3 out of 5
Fort Freak - George R. R. Martin
A soon to retire Joker detective decides to revisit an old case while an Internal Affairs detective investigates corruption and murder in the same precinct.
The cold case leads back to one of the original aces and goes via several well known Jokertown identities.
3.5 out of 5
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Shadow of the Well of Souls - Jack L. Chalker
The second of this sequel series has Mavra and Nathan trying to get to the part of the Well where they can stop things from going bad.
This involves a lot of travel with companions, some of whom struggle greatly with the species and gender shifting involved. Better than the first one but middle seriesness bigtime.
3 out of 5
The Scar-Crow Men - Mark Chadbourn
As if Will Swyfte didn't have enough problems with evil fairies and dodgy Spaniards now spy factions in his own government want to have him become mortally challenged.
The disappearance of friend and fellow agent Christopher Marlowe escalates the need to run away and attempt to stop the takeover of England via an Unseelie version of Invasion of the Body Snatches.
A female Irish counterpart, supernatural assassins, a personal demon in the form of his dead girlfriend and French royalty complicate things further as Will's sword gets a lot of use.
3.5 out of 5å
Friday, July 13, 2012
The Apocalypse Codex - Charles Stross
The latest Laundr novel picks an all-time favourite of mine to homage. Modesty Blaise.
Bob Howard discovers the Laundry actually does have some external and deniable assets they use, not bound by the usual Yes Minister cum literal soul sucking bureaucratic agreements.
So he is read in on the BASHFUL INCENDIARY dossier and sent to the USA to deal with a Christian cult leader that appears set to try and perform your gate summoning of something powerful and nasty and take over the country and the world, etc. Penny Hazard and Johnny McTavish aren't too pleased about having oversight in their heads but as things get worse they realise Mr Howard is actually a bit on the useful side as Bob continues to be fast tracked in a key role in opposing CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN eldritch invasion horror.
Delightful to read as usual, especially given the fact I love Modesty Blaise. Points off for O'Donnell disposal!
4 out of 5
The Last Mortal Man - Syne Mitchell
A young woman dying of untreatable cancer is caught up in a plot to kill the man responsible for an immortality process that could save her if she could 1) afford it and 2) he would allow it.
A change of heart leads her to save his life and eventually make a deal to stay out of jail - two and a half centuries of indentured service as his bodyguard.
Converted to a Deathless immortal she is highly effective but divisions and enemies her boss makes, including those close to him lead to further conflict in the future. His grandson is allergic to the nanotech that can make people immortal, so when a weapon that strikes at that technology is unveiled, killing most of his rellos, he is tasked with trying to stop it and save some kids. With the help of a posthuman killer bodyguard.
4 out of 5
Carpathia - Matt Forbeck
Here's a fun one, ship full of dead people aside.
The Titanic voyage doesn't go so well.
However, three of the survivors are Quin Harker, Abraham Holmwood and Lucy Seward. The ship that picks them up is in the title. On board, some vampires. The three friends soon realise that Uncle Bram may not have been making stuff up and that their parental predilection for household garlic and crucifixes was not so normal.
These three are not so easy prey given their background and divisions in the vampire ranks make things more interesting too.
Good stuff.
3.5 out of 5
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Making Mars a Nicer Place in Fiction and in Fact - Eric Choi
Or a brief history of some Mars stories, etc.
4 out of 5
Pathfinders - Martin McGrath
A probably apocalyptically cut off base leads to desperate excursions.
3.5 out of 5
Incarnate - Craig Pay
A daughter wants to be dead properly when brought back from backup.
3.5 out of 5
Friday, July 6, 2012
Scourge of the Betrayer - Jeff Salyards
No cursed magic swords here. Only a cursed magic flail. Which which the captain of small military company is encumbered. Sent on an unspecified to the scribe hired to document their work mission the young man soon gets involved in events lethal and dodgy as these agents of a foreign empire go about their politically motivated work.
A solid novel of low-tech geopolitical small area stabbity and backstabbity, with the odd monstrous beasties.
3.5 out of 5
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Wunderwaffe - Ian Sales
Nazi Bell dimension portal accidental Atlantean Metropolis demise.
4 out of 5
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