The Dread Hammer is the first fantasy book by Trey Sheils, who has written more books as science fiction writer Linda Nagata. Linda Nagata has won the Locus Award for Best Science First Novel for The Bohr Maker and the Nebula Award for Best Novella for Goddesses. When Ketty’s father decides she is to marry an old man who has been married twice already, she runs away and desperately prays to the Dread Hammer for help when these two men […]
Review of The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
The Cloud Roads is the first book in the Books of Raksura series by Martha Wells, author of the Nebula nominated novel The Death of the Necromancer. The second volume, The Serpent Sea, is scheduled for release in January 2012. Thanks to a brief Twitter conversation with Martha Wells, I discovered that she is working a third book even though it hasn’t been purchased by the publisher yet. When Moon was very young, his mother and siblings were killed, leaving […]
Review of The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
The Demon King is the first book in the Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima. It is followed by The Exiled Queen, and the third book The Gray Wolf Throne was just released last month. The Crimson Crown, the fourth and final book in the series, is scheduled for release in fall 2012. Han used to be a very successful leader of a street gang known as “Cuffs” for his silver armbands, which he cannot remove and has had […]
Hard Spell is the first book in a new series by Justin Gustainis, the Occult Crimes Unit Investigation series. There is a second book in this urban fantasy series in progress, Evil Dark. The supernaturals (or “supes” for short) were not a regular occurrence in the United States until after World War II. When the American soldiers came back from fighting overseas, many of them returned as vampires or werewolves and the supernatural started to become more widespread in America. […]
Review of Embassytown by China Mieville
Embassytown is the latest book by China Mieville, who is perhaps best known for his novel Perdido Street Station. He’s written several books in the speculative fiction genre, some of which have won major awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Hugo Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Embassytown, a science fiction novel, came out in hardcover and ebook formats this year and will be released in trade paperback in January 2012. Since I’ve heard a lot about China Mieville […]
Review of One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire
One Salt Sea is the fifth book in the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire, the winner of last year’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. The first four books in this urban fantasy series, available both as ebooks and in mass market paperback, are as follows: Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, and Late Eclipses. One Salt Sea is available in the same formats today. There are two more books scheduled for release with […]
