Paperback, anthology – 23 stories, published BAEN April 2012. This is excellent value for money. I received a book voucher and landed on Mighty Ape seeking a good book. I found this one and initially dallied over the choice. The theme is ‘power armor’ and I wasn’t sure what sort of stories I’d find. But …
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The Night Searchers by Marcia Muller
hardcover, published July ’14, Grand Central Publishing (Hatchette).(It may also be an interesting sign of the times that this publisher is now adding a line in the information at the front – “The publisher is not responsible for websites or their content that are not owned by the publisher.) I’m left wondering what event made …
“Gale Girls’ Trilogy by Tanya Huff
This isn’t so much my normal review as a note to readers. Back in 2009 I purchased the first in this trio, THE ENCHANTMENT EMPORIUM, read and liked it a lot, so when THE WILD WAYS appeared in 2011 I bought that too. Then last month (Nov.’14) the third, THE FUTURE FALLS, appeared – I …
Sex and Dating:The Official Politically Correct Guide By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf
Paperback, published HarperCollins 1994. A friend sent this to me and I promptly read it over the next couple of days. If it wasn’t that I lived through a lot of this nonsense I’d have assumed this was some sort of humor parody, except that it isn’t. For instance in the alphabetical listing I find…coffee, …
COMING HOME by Jack McDevitt.
Hardcover published ACE November 2014. The only complaint I have to make about this book is basic. I had to wait a year for it since the author’s last one (Starhawk) was published. Of all his books, I like the Benedict and Kolpath series the most so I’ve been anticipating this book for months and …
FATAL IMPRESSIONS by Reba White Williams.
Large paperback, published The Story Plant, April 2014. second in the Coleman and Dianah Green Mysteries. Again a good well-written mystery, with what is becoming a trademark for this writer, the ability to trickle interesting information on the art world into and throughout the book without ungainly infodumps, or items so arcane that the ordinary …
Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart.
hardcover, published by Hodder and Stoughton 1997. I’ve always liked Mary Stewart’s writing. She started with what were called Romantic Thrillers, but many had a touch of fantasy as well, and I loved that combination, a romance, a murder or mystery, and fantasy, everything a reader could ask for. So I bought most of her …
STEAMPUNK TRAILS ed. J.A. Campbell.
large size soft cover. 2nd annual. 103 pages. 10 short stories, 5 more flash, plus articles and editorial. Reviewed by Steve Johnson. This anthology is a very nice piece of work. Stunning cover art by M. Wayne Miller -which was picked up as the plot behind J.A. Campbell’s story. (RCAF Royal Canine Air Force) a …
SATURNALIA by Grant Callin.
Published paperback, Baen, January 1986. There are times when it pays to have a blog! Last year I did one of my Have You Overlooked columns about this author who’d had a very low output of very high quality – and in that I mentioned I didn’t have the earlier of his two books. I …
OFF THE GRID by P.J. Tracy.
Published Signet, large pb, July 2013. Book six in the Monkeewrench series. While I was in Auckland in April I raided the ever-great Bookwormz and came home with a carton of used books in as-new condition. This was one of them and it looked so interesting I’d grabbed. I read it first once the carton …