Category Archives: Books

Robert J. Sawyer is the Hugo-, Nebula-, and John W. Campbell Award-Winning author of 20 novels and several short story collections. An Ontario native, he can frequently be found as a guest of honour at Science Fiction Conventions around the … Continue reading →

Baen Books has been releasing new editions of Robert A. Heinlein works for over a decade, at a steadily increasing pace. So far this has included about half of the famed Heinlein juveniles, originally written for Scribner between 1947 and … Continue reading →

Sleight of Hand is the literary equivalent of opening the drawers of a long-buried but recently discovered Chinese apothecary’s cabinet; one has no idea what one’s going to find from drawer to drawer but what emerges from each is finely … Continue reading →

It’s clear from the first page the identity of the audience No Hero is intended for. The setup is familiar: a British secret agency comprised entirely of misfits, holding back an existential threat to the entire world while being kneecapped … Continue reading →

Glen Cook’s Sung in Blood is rather a departure from what we have come to expect of Cook. After I’d gotten about halfway through, I said to myself, “Cool! Glen Cook does pulp.” You’ll see. The wizard Jehrke Victorious, the … Continue reading →

There are two ways to read Kilimanjaro, Resnick’s slow-following successor to the award-winning Kirinyaga. The first takes the novella at face value, giving the reader an Arthur C. Clarke-like read of intelligent people confronting serious issues with intelligence, conversation, and … Continue reading →

Mike Resnick may very well be the most awarded science-fiction writer ever — the biography on the back flap of Dreamwish Beasts and Snarks is a list of awards and nominations. That’s it. There is justification for that, and it’s … Continue reading →

The late George Scithers once said that everyone has one Cthulhu Mythos story in them. Whether or not this is the case, there are certainly plenty of folks who believe it, and who won’t stop at one. The result has … Continue reading →

Award winners don’t always age well. It’s true for Best Picture winners, it’s true for Grammy winners, and it can be true for literary award winners. With that in mind, approaching a collection like the Horror Hall of Fame: The … Continue reading →