The January 2012 issue of Andrew Andrews’s True Review (Number 79) is now available on the web. The quarterly review ‘zine kicks off with an introduction (“On Whose Constant Intercession We Rely For Help”) explaining the massive weather delays which caused this issue to be late, and an editorial (“Adiuvante Gratia Tua” [“With the Help of Your Grace”]). This issue has 13 feature book reviews by Andrews and by Debra Jackson-Andrews, and seven recommendations.
The books with featured reviews in this issue include:
Supervolcano Eruption by Harry Turtledove
Flashback by Dan Simmons
The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown by Paul Malmont
Future Media edited by Rick Wilber
The Urban Fantasy Anthology edited by Peter S. Beagle and Joe R. Lansdale
Blood and Other Cravings edited by Ellen Datlow
The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America by William J. Birnes and Joel Martin
Ghosts by Gaslight edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers
A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories by Ray Bradbury
The Gift by Cecelia Ahern
A Dublin Student Doctor by Patrick Taylor
The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Deception of Lyme by Carrie Bebris
Recommendations include:
Realms of Fantasy August 2011 issue
Realms of Fantasy October 2011 issue
Saints Astray by Jacqueline Carey
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime edited by Michael Sims
Mirror Maze by Michaele Jordan
Eyes to See by Joseph Nassise
Thomas World by Richard Cox