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Steven Brust and Skyler White’s The Incrementalists

In my view, a new novel by Steven Brust is something to be eagerly awaited. And when he collaborates with another writer, the results can be both unexpected and very rewarding. And so, I opened The Incrementalists with a large … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Bear’s Book of Iron

With Book of Iron, Elizabeth Bear pays another visit to the world of Bijou the Artificer, the Wizard of Messaline who makes creatures out of bone, jewels, and metal and who embarks on adventures, whom we first met in Bone … Continue reading

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Glen Cook’s A Fortess in Shadow

The Fire in His Hands With Mercy Toward None A Fortress in Shadow is an omnibus edition collecting Glen Cook’s two “prequel” novels to The Dread Empire trilogies. (Yes, there are two of them, which we have discussed here and … Continue reading

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Mike Resnick’s Stalking the Zombie

There’s actually a fairly long history for the fantasy detective genre, going back at least to Randall Garrett’s stories of Lord Darcy from the 1960s. The genre has enjoyed a roster of stellar practitioners — Michael Moorcock, Glenn Cook, Steven … Continue reading

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Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Margaret Atwood needs no introduction to readers of Green Man Review. Suffice to say she is one of the best known and highly respected North American writers of … hmm, well, what is it that she writes? Actually, that is … Continue reading

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Glen Cook’s A Path to Coldness of Heart

‘Copyright Glen Cook 2011 and used with the permission of Night Shade Books. Online use granted to Green Man Review, a publication of Kinrowan Limited, and any other use, online or in print, is prohibited without the express written permission … Continue reading

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William Schafer, Ed., Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2

I don’t think I’m alone in thinking of “dark fantasy” as a sort of combination of urban fantasy and horror: vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies, and less pleasant creatures confronting more or less normal people who may have the resources, or … Continue reading

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Lev Grossman’s The Magicians

It should be pointed out that The Magicians is not Lev Grossman’s first book. His previous novel, Codex, was a bestseller. Previous to and coincident with that, he has been the book critic for Time magazine. I mention this because … Continue reading

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Phillip José Farmer, The Dark Design

The Dark Design, the second volume in Tor’s reissue of Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld series, is actually the third book in the saga, following To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat. We’re following four threads of narrative here. … Continue reading

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Kage Baker’s Not Less Than Gods

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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