Tag Archives: contemporary fantasy

Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

Posted on 3rd March 2024 by Diverse Voices

Lenora Rose wrote this review. “Yes, I tried reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell…. After three hundred pages and far too many cups of Turkish coffee to keep from nodding off while reading it, I gave up. It’s dry, it’s … Continue reading →

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Scott Mebus’s Gods of Manhattan

Posted on 2nd March 2024 by Diverse Voices

In this post-Potter world, more authors than ever seem attracted to writing for adolescents. And given the acclaim and success J.K. Rowling has achieved — including the great wealth now enjoyed by the previously struggling author — why wouldn’t more … Continue reading →

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Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola’s Hellboy: The Companion

Posted on 12th August 2023 by Cat Eldridge

Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall, Victoria Blake, and Mike Mignola (writers) and Mike Mignola (illustrator) It’s really hard to do a companion to a long running series well. Roger Zelazny’s The Amber Chronicles was well served by Theodore Krulik’s The Complete … Continue reading →

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Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine

Posted on 14th April 2023 by Warner Holme

Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine is called, in at least some of the advertising, a contemporary fantasy. While this is technically true, technology like phones and computers feeling more than familiar, it is possibly better fit into another genre. Specifically, it … Continue reading →

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Esther Friesner’s Death and the Librarian and Other Stories

Posted on 6th April 2023 by Diverse Voices

Guy Soffer wrote this review. This book is a collection of twelve short fantasy stories all written in the ’90s. Friesner has published this collection of stories, eleven of which have previously been published and one, “Ilion,” is a new … Continue reading →

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Charlaine Harris’s Dead As A Doornail

Posted on 6th April 2023 by Michael M. Jones

Y’know, life for Sookie Stackhouse just keeps getting more and more complicated. It’s hard enough being a telepathic barmaid in a small Louisiana town, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In the past year, she’s been forced to … Continue reading →

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Francesca Lia Block’s Girl Goddess #9: 9 Stories

Posted on 16th March 2023 by Diverse Voices

Rebecca Scott wrote this review for Folk Tales. When Girl Goddess #9 arrived on my doorstep, I wanted to pick it up immediately and start reading. Then I thought of some of the things I’d written in my last review … Continue reading →

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Ben Aaronovitch‘s Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

Posted on 19th November 2022 by Lis Carey

This is a collection of short stories, including some “moments,” short pieces that Aaronovitch doesn’t want to call stories, set in the Rivers of London world. Not all of these stories feature the major characters in the novels. Several feature side characters … Continue reading →

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Steven Brust’s Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla, Taltos, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, Dragon, Issola, and Jhereg: The Graphic Novel

Posted on 11th April 2022 by Michael M. Jones

Vlad Taltos is a very dangerous man. He has to be, in his line of work. He’s an assassin. He’s an Easterner (what we’d call human) in an empire full of near-immortal, very powerful beings known collectively as the Dragaerians. … Continue reading →

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Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden and Stephen R. Bissette’s Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman

Posted on 13th March 2022 by Aptil Gutierrez

Authors Hank Wagner and Christopher Golden collaborated previously on The Complete Stephen King Universe, a comprehensive, excellent study of King’s writings. This time around they’ve enlisted the help of artist Stephen Bissette and have turned their attention to Neil Gaiman. … Continue reading →

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