Eric and I are both slowly recovering from our illnesses, so if you bribed the witch that knocked us both out, I thank you. We are both feeling on the mend, and hope to get back to work. In the… Read More ›
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Book Reviews
Patrice Sarath knows the subtle corruption of power
In the mercantile city of Port Saint Frey, the Sisters Mederos live in a world where power is more important than law. Large and wealthy corporations skirt the edges of right and wrong, and anyone who wishes to rise must… Read More ›
Not a Drop to Drink: Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman
By Megan Bosarge When Technology can’t save you money has no value. What’s left? Instincts. Darwin. Survival of the fittest. What role does humanity play in that? Father-son duo Neal and Jarrod Shusterman attempt to answer that question in their… Read More ›
Review: CHICK BASSIST by Ross Lockhart
Ross Lockhart is one of the exciting authors involved in our first anthology, THE WAY OF THE LASER: FUTURE CRIME STORIES and most people who only know him as a prominent editor of award-winning press, WordHorde, and many renowned anthologies,… Read More ›
John H. Stevens Reviews PALADIN OF SOULS by Lois McMaster Bujold
When I first read this novel shortly after its publication in 2005, I found it entertaining and well-written. It felt slow in places but the presence of gritty emotion held my interest. Tragedy, regret, and bitterness were the notes of… Read More ›
Books for Reluctant Readers #3: David Wong’s This Book is Full of Spiders
As a high school teacher, I have complete control over my small classroom library. Among the hand-me-downs, library leftovers and nobody-teaches-me-anymore books are carefully placed titles for reluctant readers. These are the books students who never read come back to… Read More ›
John H. Stevens Reviews LOVECRAFT COUNTRY by Matt Ruff
Once in awhile I’ll come across a book that stirs mixed feelings in me. Not in terms of whether it is a good story or not, but in the range of emotions it creates in me. Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country brought up… Read More ›
Book Review: In a Ho-Hum Wood.
I don’t like to write reviews that are less than positive, unless I can talk about something important where it isn’t really the book, itself, that has failed, but some other aspect of society where we are failing and the… Read More ›
Breaking: Stephen King Writes Book with Trump in Mind, Shocked to Learn President Can’t Read
Following the release of his novella, Elevation, Stephen King shared with readers his dismay that his intended audience would never read it.
Review of Thomas M. Disch’s On Wings of Song by John H. Stevens
Tom Disch is one of my favorite authors; I find his writing to be powerful and insightful, unrelenting but sensitive. His work is often infuriating and disturbing, but worth the effort to engage it. The first work of his that… Read More ›