softcover, anthology, 22 short stories on title theme. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. Another nice offering from Whortleberry Press. Some great stories in this one with one of my favourites only three in. Blue Grass Dreams Aren’t For Free by Gerri Leen is a very good tale of human/horse reversal, although not perhaps as you’d expect. …
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THUNDERBIRD by Jack McDevitt.
Hardcover, published by ACE, December 2015. Many of Jack’s books have been a mad romp through space, but this one has a thread of seriousness running under the surface right throughout the book. The romp is there, but the book made me think hard about a few things too. In the Sioux Reservation of Spirit …
ROAR Vol.6. edited Mary E. Lowd
softcover, 28 stories etc. 6th in a themed series. reviewed by Steve Johnson. I’m going to make this fast, it’s the time of the year when a whole stack of things to do descend on me, and they have. This is one of Lyn’s author copies, I know she was really pleased to have a …
HEAT OF THE MIDDAY SUN edited David B. Riley.
softcover, 217 pages, intro, and 13 stories. From SF Trails. reviewed by Steve Johnson. As Lyn says, it must be the season. We’d (my wife, Glen and I) no sooner vanished off down the road in our campervan, than Lyn got in copies of two anthologies with her work and wanted me to review them. …
Pan-Fried yellow-Eyed Penguins by Amanda Clow-Hewer.
tradepaperback, published 1998 by HarperCollins. I saw this when it came out years ago, speed-read my way through an item or two and bought it on the spot. And every 4-5 years I re-read it and chuckle happily. (This week was the fourth time.) I might not recommend it to those that are under thirty, …
DUMBEST BLUNDERS: Life’s Embarrassing Moments compiled by Wendy Lewis.
Tradepaperback published New Holland (Australia) 2007. And yes, some of them certainly would have been embarrassing merely making them all the funnier to anyone that wasn’t involved. The compiler has trawled a wide variety of areas to bring this lot together and I’ve found that it’s not just readable, but re-readable. Third time of reading …
Kitty Saves The World by Carrie Vaughn- A farewell.
Paperback, published TOR August 2015. And very sadly, the last in the series. I got this in the mail (pre-ordered) yesterday, read it in gulps all day, and today is the review. Look, this is a great book, still more of the same and I loved every word, but it’s bitterpsweet. Yes, another Kitty book, …
AMAZONS!/AMAZONS II
If you never read these when they were published by DAW in 1979 and 1982, try to lay hands on copies now. They were seminal women’s anthologies then, now they are still unbeatable. Sadly, a number of the authors within have passed on, but here were some of the best stories they ever did. Janrae …
This Is The End – movie
I watched this because I dearly love an end-of-the-world oe disaster movie. Then too it had Emma Watson whom I also like. Sadly I was disappointed. The work reminded me of the elderly Edwardian lady’s advice to the young man. “Funny is good, funny and vulgar is permissable. But be one or the other and …
The Handsome Man’s Deluxe Cafe By Alexander McCall Smith
Published 2015 Abacus paperback. Another gentle pleasant book in the series. I thought that perhaps this was a trifle more lightweight than previous books, but the sheer charm of the characters always carries me into finishing and adding the book to my shelves. And in this story there are genuine problems to solve. At Speedy …