The December 2012 issue of Andrew Andrews’s True Review (Number 82) is now available on the web. The quarterly review ‘zine kicks off with a commentary on the weather and publishing (“Tyranny of the Same”) and responses from Andrews’s call for bad job experiences in the previous issue (“Bad Jobs Reloaded”), as well as an editorial on “Excruciatio Amor” (“The Agony of Love”). This issue has 14 feature book reviews by Andrews and by Debra Jackson-Andrews, and nine other recommendations.

The books with featured reviews in this issue include:
Red Rain by R.L. Stine
Other Worlds than These edited by John Joseph Adams
Lilith by Toby Tate
Alien Contact edited by Marty Halpern
Multiples: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume 6 (1983-87) by Robert Silverberg
Some Remarks by Neal Stephenson
Long Black Coffin by Tim Curran
The coffee Table Book of Doom by Steven Appleby and Art Lester
Hellfire and Damnation II by Connie Corcoran Wilson
An Irish Country Wedding by Patrick Taylor
Keepsake by Kristina Riggle
The Take-Charge Patient by Martine Ehrenclou
The Skeleton Box by Bryan Gruley
Defining Moments: Breaking Through Tough Times by Dorothea S. McArthur

Recommendations include:
Zombie Apocalypse! by Stephen Jones
House of Skin by Jonathan Lanz
The Listeners by Harrison Demchick
Worth Their Weight in Blood by Carole Jahme
The Sinner by K. Trap Jones
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
The Moon Stealers by Tim Flanagan
Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye
Blood of the City by Robin D. Laws