Oz in a Twist(er): Detours off the Yellow Brick Road
Oz Reimagined will take you far off the Yellow Brick Road, but keep you firmly planted in the wonderful world first imagined by L. Frank Baum…
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Would you like a little comedy with your impending doom?
The Coffee Table Book of Doom presents a full list of possible doomsday scenarios, threatening us all just out of sight in a comic manner to leaven the heavy message…
Sometimes you have to travel to the Moon to grow up
Allen Steele’s YA sf novel Apollo’s Outcasts is a great updating of Heinlein’s juveniles to modern sensibilities and modern science, with excellent world-building and gripping story-telling…
Ivan takes center stage to continue the Vorkosigan Saga, and he does it with flair and panache
Lois McMaster Bujold continues her Vorkosigan Saga by focusing on former second-fiddle Ivan with Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, and readers breathe a sigh of relief for the continuation of the well-loved series…
Flight of Fancy: The Family Forge by Ariel Cinii
The Family Forge is an engaging story in an imaginatively fresh setting…
Dying As No Redshirt Has Died Before—With Laughter
Michael Burstein enthusiastically recommends John Scalzi’s Redshirts, but he won’t tell you what it’s about…
Temeraire’s seventh outing brings him to another continent, and another conflict
Crucible of Gold is the seventh outing for Captain Laurence and his dragon Temeraire. They’re still fighting the Napoleonic wars, but this time, they’re doing it in a brand new empire, and it’s just as absorbing as the previous volumes…
A wide range of fantastic tales in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination is Warren Lapine’s new anthology, taking an SF magazine sensibility into the anthology market. He brings 14 very diverse stories by a wide range of authors. These stories do not disappoint…
Subversive Reading
Authority—many different types of authority—are subverted in this hit-and-miss anthology of mostly short stories…
He’s big, he’s back, he’s Taft… in 2012
Jason Heller’s Taft 2012 brings a former President with a great message into a modern Presidential campaign, and wonders why we don’t have such qualified candidates today…
Agent of Inquiry—Madeleine E. Robins’ The Sleeping Partner
This third alternate-history Regency Sarah Tolerance novel in the series hits on all cylinders, returning the reader to a delightful world of scandal, intrigue, and mystery…
The Shattered Vine, a satisfying end to the Vineart War, arrives with an elegant launch party
Laura Anne Gilman brings a satisfying conclusion to her Vineart War trilogy, with wine generating magic and mysteries generating conflicts…
The Circus of Dreams—Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus
The Night Circus scintillates in the mind; it is a taut story combining fantasy, magic, love, death, and secrets…
A Haunted History of Columbus, Ohio is a charming collection of ghost tales
A warm collection of cozy ghost tales for the cool Halloween season upon us…
Death and the Superman: A Look at the DC Comics New 52 Reboot
DC Comics reboots its entire superhero universe, and it looks like it’s off to a roaring start…
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