Can you think of anything more frightening than the End of Everything, the total collapse of the universe? I can. I saw that TV show where the aliens sent ships to burn up every nation on Earth, city by city. If we’re all going to die, the universe collapsing frankly sounds like an easier way…
Category: Book Reviews
CSFF Blog Tour: Martyr’s Fire
When a lord’s city is filled with secrets he can sense but not see; when the enemies he once beat seem determined to win again, and when they are strangely adept at disappearing, and strangely adept at reappearing; when frauds come with lying blessings and lying relics, and win the hearts of a lord’s subjects…
Prism Tour: Hero
Saturday Woodcutter would publicly declare, and only privately bemoan, that she was the only member of her family who was normal. Not Fey-blessed, not royal or mythic, not practicing magic. And then she broke the world. Hero, written by Alethea Kontis, is the story of Saturday Woodcutter – a young woman who no more knows…
CSFF Blog Tour: The Hero’s Lot
Even if your enemy has any number of vicious cutthroats, and still more vicious ferrals, at his command, one could see reason in hunting him down, if the necessity were great enough. But when your enemy can see you coming from a thousand miles away, one would strain hard to see any reason in taking…
CSFF Blog Tour: A Cast of Stones
Not to put too fine a point on it, Errol Stone is a drunk. Drinking is the only thing he’s good at. That, and running errands over the Cripples. In an effort to earn more ale money, he agreed to take a message to the hermit-priest. So he got involved in the Church, and the…
CSFF Blog Tour: Captives
There are two worlds, separate of their own choosing. In the Safe Lands, all is pleasure and comfort and convenience, greased by the omnipresent wonders of technology – except for the thin plague, and until the time of liberation. In little Glenrock, life is harder and the rules are stricter – but there is the…
Prism Tour Review: King
Akabe’s highest aspiration is to rebuild a holy house for the Infinite. His highest priority is staying alive. As the followers of Atea seek to make him king no longer – in the most final and irreversible way possible – he struggles to stay ahead of the knife’s-edge of their schemes. Choosing an Atean queen…
Prism Tour: Dragonwitch
The North Star, if you follow it, will lead you north, which gets very cold during the winter. In the North Country, Leta lives a dull life expecting dull things, and Alistair leads a promising life expecting death. Neither yet has any notion of the Far World beyond their world – a world that even…
Rules for Reviewers
Before the end of the summer, I expect to participate in at least four blog tours. Possibly five, but just possibly. So, with all this reviewing ahead of me, I’ve been thinking again of what makes a good review – the first principles, if you will. Here, then, are some rules for reviewers. First of…
CSFF Blog Tour: Storm
At the end of the world, you should expect to have some problems. Tyranny, intrigue, drought, a biological superweapon, Big Brother watching you – it all gathers into a perfect storm. In Storm, Logan Langly continues his fight against DOME, his search for answers. He sees more of the big picture than nearly everyone who…