"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Joe Abercrombie “I’ve settled a few scores in my time, but it only led to more.” The fantasy world of blood and decay on display here, populated by the downtrodden and the corrupt, could possibly be called Anti-Fantasy. You don’t look to this world like you might many others in the genre, with faces raised... Continue Reading →
by Charles Beaumont “I just lie awake at night and thank God that I’m bald.” Making your way through this gigantic book brings with it a revelation. You are not reading a book, you're staring directly into the imagination of one of our best speculative fiction writers, one of our best situational thinkers. As the... Continue Reading →
by Jim Butcher The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. “I don’t believe in faeries!” Book 4 of the Dresden Files, this one follows our wizard as he tries to uncover the... Continue Reading →
by Joe Abercrombie “No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right.” A tough-as-nails woman, her pseudo-father and other unlikely companions gathered along the way track down a mercenary army across the brutal plains to retrieve her stolen brother and sister. This is a western containing the throwback violence... Continue Reading →
by Jonathan Carroll "The Land of Laughs was lit by eyes that saw the lights that no one's seen." Carroll's first novel sets the stage for what becomes a kind of trademark later in his career, and his style is tough to explain. The words 'magic' and 'surreal' come to mind, but generally in Carroll's... Continue Reading →
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