Category Archives: Books

Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy

Posted on 29th December 2010 by J.J.S. Boyce

You may be familiar with Fforde’s previous (and ongoing) Thursday Next detective series, starring the detective of the same name, whose specialty is crimes of a “literary nature”. The Big Over Easy marks the beginning of the Nursery Crimes series, … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Strahan and Charles M. Brown, eds: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories

Posted on 23rd December 2010 by Robert

I was about to start off this discussion of Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories by saying that Fritz Leiber needs no introduction. I’m not sure that’s true any more: there are several generations of fine writers in the field of speculative … Continue reading →

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Peter S. Beagle’s Return

Posted on 21st December 2010 by Robert

As you’ve no doubt heard many times here at GMR, there is something unique about the writing of Peter S. Beagle. There’s a “can’t quite put your finger on it” quality that is, perhaps, equal parts simple, uninflected narration, universes … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook: The Many Deaths of the Black Company (Water Sleeps, Soldiers Live )

Posted on 21st December 2010 by Robert

If you stop think about it, it’s rather remarkable that a living writer of speculative fiction finds himself with reissues of seemingly all of his earlier works hitting the market while he’s working on new ones.  I think it says … Continue reading →

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Holly Black and Ellen Kushner’s Welcome To Bordertown

Posted on 12th November 2010 by Michael M. Jones

A generation ago, Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold introduced us to Bordertown, an abandoned American city sitting on the Border between the “real world” (The World) and Faerie (The Realm). A place where science and magic both worked, if … Continue reading →

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Gregory Maguire’s Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation

Posted on 8th May 2010 by Diverse Voices

Joseph Thompson penned this review. One of the best conversations I ever had as a child was with a large birch at the edge of a peat bog. I was 8 years old and stammered stupidly through most of the … Continue reading →

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Kage Baker’s Not Less Than Gods

Posted on 1st February 2010 by Diverse Voices

Matthew Winslow submitted this review. It is a little after 1:15 p.m., January 31, 2010. Kage Baker passed away just 12 hours ago and I found out about it less than a half hour ago. Even though the Green Man … Continue reading →

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Tasha Alexander’s A Fatal Waltz and Tears of Pearl

Posted on 17th October 2009 by Donna Bird

A while back I reviewed an earlier book in this series, A Poisoned Season. I liked it enough that I knew I would be willing to read future installments. Then I lost track, which is easy enough to do, given … Continue reading →

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Neal Stephenson’s Anathem

Posted on 15th September 2009 by kestrell

One of the joys of Anathem is the way it unfolds slowly, bit by bit, with every newly revealed detail exposing another unsuspected layer of complexity beneath. Stephenson’s world-building is on the truly fantastic level in Anathem, but it is … Continue reading →

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Joss Whedon, Karl Moline and Jeff Loeb’s Time Of Your Life (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight Volume 4)

Posted on 11th September 2009 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

Since I reviewed Volume Five before I received this pretty parcel, I know what will be coming down the road. This review could have a bit of a spoiler taste to it, but I promise to be as good a … Continue reading →

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