Antinomy

Author	Lloyd Alexander
ISBN	0141310685

When Theo agrees to print a traveling showman's pamphlet, he only thinks of the money it will bring in. Instead, it sets off a chain reaction that results in the smashing of the press and the murder of his master. Caught on the wrong side of the law, Theo must flee the city. Soon, he has teamed up with the traveling...

Author	Catherine Asaro
ISBN	1416520791

This one didn’t enthrall me with either its ideas or its plot. A human who dies in a car crash has his brain circuitry emulated in an android construction, and runs away from his Dr. Frankenstein and lands on the short of a female scientist who has withdrawn from the industry over ethical issues. She falls...

Author	Linda Evans
ISBN	0671875949

The sad thing is their are some really cool ideas like the idea that Odin is a villain and that it looks at the monsters as more of as tragic characters instead of as villains like they usually are. But the problem comes mostly with the main character Randy is just really boring and seems more like a gary stu...

Author	Holly Lisle
ISBN	0671877038

Be careful what you wish for...One day, dayne Kuttner, a nurse, couldn't take it anymore. Sick at heart from doctors ordering her to maintain the life in patients who were already dead, saving people who didn't want the help, and most of all angry over the thought her recently deceased husband would rot...

Author	Eric Flint
ISBN	0743471466

Please Note: Read in January 2008 immediately after The Philosophical Strangler. Just copying over my review.

Thoughts: Combining prequel and aspects of similarity with The Philosophical Strangler, Forward the Mage is full of Rabelaisian nonsense that is certain to confuse and befuddle...

Author	Susan Dexter
ISBN	0345380657

Leith had been born under a curse, but when he found Valadan, a fabulous black stallion, he thought his luck and his life were about to change. He was only partly right. He wins the hand of a maiden who she doesn't want to be won. The maiden claims her missing mother is a witch and wants to look for her, not marry....

Author	Don Callander
ISBN	0441692222

This book is somewhat dated, and has more of a YA feel to it, which is pretty typical of the era and genre. This is not a criticism, mind you, just a caveat to people who may hold expectations for this book.

There is no doubt I would have enjoyed this book more when I was a teen (or tween) and as an adult...

Author	Thorarinn Gunnarsson
ISBN	1560769068

The recent opening of a thread dealing with fantasy and science fiction recommendations in one of my groups brought this book to mind, and reminded me that I'd never reviewed it. It was one that my wife and I read together back in the early 90s, having picked it up at a flea market. At the time, we liked it quite...

Author	Troy Denning
ISBN	1560761210

A new creed kindled from despair...

Kalak: an immortal sorcerer-king whose evil magic has reduced the majestic city of Tyr to a desolate place of dust, blood, and fear.

His thousand-year reign of death is about to end.

Banding together to spark a revolution are a maverick...

Author

Lynn Abbey

I recently reread a different Darksun series from my youth, and this sparked an interest in checking out other novels in this universe. Troy Denning’s Prism Pentad was one of the first series of books I read (without being forced) when I was in middle school, and I have always had a special place in my...

Author	David Zeb Cook
ISBN	1560761539

Poor Krynnish farmer Telden Moore has a space ship crash land in his field. The dying captain gives him a magical cloak and soon every miscreant in Wildspace is on the trail of Telden and his cloak. Will Telden's life ever be the same?

Even though I played a fair amount of D&D when I was a lad,...