Wingman

Author	Barbara Hambly
ISBN	0345409957

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths Reviews.

Once, long ago, I recall walking through the Waldenbooks bookstore at my local mall, trying to find something new to read. After having crammed everything Middle-Earth related into my brain, I needed a new fix of epic fantasy adventure. Sure,...

Author	Caitlín R. Kiernan
ISBN	1596065869

Caitlín R. Kiernan has been described as one of “the most original and audacious weird writers of her generation” (Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, The Weird), “one of our essential writers of dark fiction” (New York Times), and S. T. Joshi has proclaimed, “hers is now the voice of weird fiction.”...

Author	Virginia Hamilton
ISBN	0590362143

Thoroughly enjoyed this whole series about Justice, a young girl with powers she is only beginning to understand, - and SURPRISE! - her twin brothers who are completely different in personality and outlook. The action begins on a significant birthday, where Justice is sure her life will change in some...

Author	David Robbins
ISBN	0843931051

Don't get me wrong . This will never be considered great literature or for that matter anything other than trashy fun. I discovered this series back in my college days.(Those long ago days when unlike my young nephew who complained that his teacher did not give the class pre-printed notes because his...

Author	Jack Vance
ISBN	1596060778

A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.

Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers...

Author	Alan Dean Foster
ISBN	0743498259

When I was young and dumb--even dumber than I am now--I spent a summer as a live-in staff member at a prestigious, World's-Top-Hideaways-list-making New Zealand luxury lodge, waiting tables and working housekeeping. For a hundred bucks a week in my pocket. This is one of the numerous downsides to having...

Author	George Alec Effinger
ISBN	1930846193

George Alex Effinger's first short-fiction collection in nearly 15 years, these nine tales are set in Budayeen, the walled city in the sand, a city of dark shadows and even darker inhabitants, where a Raymond Chandleresque vision has been created -- hardboiled, noir, futuristic -- but with a twist....

Author	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
ISBN	0553282522

A novel of the Vietnam War, with a magical, mystical twist.

Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and...

Author	Dave Duncan
ISBN	0345352912

Yes, I'm giving this the rare 5 star rating. I'm a bit surprised I decided to go that high...but it's a good read. No deep emotional depths here, no great philosophical insights just a good adventurous read.

Wally is dying, well actually he seems to be dead. But instead of heading off to the after...

Author	William C. Dietz
ISBN	0759202060

Colonel Stell and his band of mercenaries yearn for a place to call home. To them Freehold is like a bright diamond in the vast universe. But its desert conditions, economic instability, social disarray, and political turmoil render the planet perfect for takeover. Willing to fight anything that stands...

Author	Buzz Aldrin
ISBN	0446604046

If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.



Tiberian Baldies: "Encounter with Tiber" by Buzz Aldrin, John Barnes



“’First of all, the burst of base eight numbers are coming in groups of 16,769,021, with a longer break between each group. Ad what...

Author	David G. Hartwell
ISBN	1616960698

Terrifying barbarians, cunning mages, and daring heroes run rampant through these exceptional examples of the exciting sword and sorcery genre. In “Tower of the Elephant,” Conan takes up jewel thievery but proves to be far better with his sword. “The Flame Bringers” finds antihero Elric...

Author

China Miéville

"What’s the first thing we learn about icebergs? That we only see the tip. Nine tenths of every one is out-of-sight." I've only read a handful of China Mieville's short stories, but so far they all have been just like icebergs - below the little bit on the surface hides the bulk of potentiality. The...

Author	Kevin J. Anderson
ISBN	0553299212

Nebula Award Nominee. The crew of Moonbase Columbus make an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious...

Author	Timothy Zahn
ISBN	0879978430

The Blackcollar marks the beginning of Timothy Zahn's career that would culminate in the creation of the best Star Wars trilogy on the market. As he is my favorite author, I couldn't miss out on this one.

ETA 06/09/14: After reading more books and thinking back on my feelings for this book, I have...

Author	Joe R. Lansdale
ISBN	1596066776

The story of African-Americans in the West has been confined to the dusty, bottom shelf of recorded history and American literature. But in the vein of the old dime novels containing stories about such heroes as Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James, comes the true story of one of those ten-cent...

Author

Mercedes Lackey

Invasion is comics made into podcast made into book. Weird? Nevermind. The book starts very strong, Nazis in gigantic metal armors are ambushing cities all around the world, killing innocents as the go, but mainly targetting Meta humans organisation, Echo. Story switches between a dozen heroic,...

Author

Ian Slater

In the Pacific--Off Koreans east cost, 185 miles south of the DMZ, six Russian-made TU-22M backfires come in low, carrying two seven-hundred-pound cluster bombs, three one-thousand-pound "iron" bombs, ten one-thousand-pound concrete-piercing bombs, and fifty-two-hundred-pound FAEs.
In...

Author	Dan Simmons
ISBN	1596061812

Since the publication of Song of Kali in 1985, Dan Simmons has produced a substantial body of fiction notable for its vigor, variety, and sheer imaginative reach. His latest, a novella-length tale of startling originality, beautifully embodies these qualities, reaffirming Simmons's position...

Author	Harlan Ellison
ISBN	1596066342

New, fresh, and different is tricky in the storytelling business, as rare as diamonds, but, as a born storyteller, Harlan made story brave, daring, surprising again, brought an edge of the gritty and the strange, the erudite and the street-smart, found ways to make words truly come alive again in an...

Author	Tim Powers
ISBN	1596066709

For the first time in his esteemed career, Tim Powers returns to the setting (and a central character) from his landmark time travel novel, The Anubis Gates.

Tracking the murderer of her fiancée through 19th century London's darkest warrens, Jacky Snapp has disguised herself as a boy -- but...

Author	Peter J. Wacks
ISBN	1419689517

I like time travel/paradox stories. This one, not so much. There was a lot of unnecessary technobabble about the nature of time that felt like just words piled upon words for effect. Time is a sphere with pores that the substance of time seeps through? At first time is a sphere, then the substance contained...

Author	Joey Comeau
ISBN	1608863972

The third volume of Adventure Time creator, Pendleton Ward's new series based on the Cartoon Hangover hit!

Join Chris, Wallow, Beth, and Danny, four 16-year-old heroes-for-hire, as they travel through the galaxy helping those who need it...and some of those who don’t! Enjoy these brand-new...

Author

Judith Reeves-Stevens

"The most destructive natural disaster in history isn't "natural...."THE PLACE

Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf. A floating slab of solid ice the size of France, more than 3,000 feet thick.

THE EVENT

On Thanksgiving weekend, six precisely placed nuclear warheads buried...