The February 2013 issue of Andrew Andrews’s True Review (Number 83) is now available on the web. The quarterly review ‘zine kicks off with a commentary about the permanency of online life (“Candle In the Wind”) and an editorial on football versus baseball (“A Semblance of a Man”). This issue has 11 feature book reviews by Andrews and by Debra Jackson-Andrews, and seven other recommendations.

The books with featured reviews in this issue include:
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012 edited by Rich Horton
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 edited by Paula Guran
Cold City by F. Paul Wilson
Everything is Broken by John Shirley
The Doctor and the Rough Rider by Mike Resnick
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman
The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet
AFter Rome by Morgan Llywelyn
Shelf Life edited by Greg Ketter
At the Edge of Waking by Holly Phillips

Recommendations include:
Dog in the Manger by Mike Resnick
Bloodman by Robert Pobi
Revelations by C. Dennis Moore
Cyberpunk edited by Victoria Blake
Be My Enemy by Ian McDonald
Ash by James Herbert
Burning the Middle Ground by L. Andrew Cooper