Five Autobiographies and a Fiction by Lucius Shepard
Lucius Shepard’s new collection Five Autobiographies and a Fiction is required reading for fans of the author. People who have never read anything by Shepard may love it too, but because of the...
View ArticleLookin’ Good: The Bread We Eat in Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente (includes...
I don’t get extremely excited about many ARCs anymore. Don’t get me wrong, finding any book in my mailbox always feels a little bit like Christmas morning, but some books are just special, and this...
View ArticleThe Last Full Measure by Jack Campbell
The Last Full Measure is an alternate history novella by Jack Campbell, set in the middle of the Nineteenth Century in the US around the time of the Gettysburg Address. (The title is actually a famous...
View ArticleHow the World Became Quiet by Rachel Swirsky
Just the most basic book description should be enough to set some people running to their preferred purveyor of books to purchase this new title from Subterranean Press: How the World Became Quiet:...
View ArticleJewels in the Dust by Peter Crowther
I’d never read anything by Peter Crowther before Jewels in the Dust, a new collection of thirteen stories published between 1996 and 2006 and collected here for the first time. I was, however, very...
View ArticleThe Ape’s Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan
From the back cover of The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan I learned that this is Kiernan’s twelfth collection of short stories since 2001. That’s about one collection per year. Even...
View ArticleThe Bread We Eat In Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente
At first the narrator of “The Consultant,” the opening story of Catherynne M. Valente’s excellent new collection The Bread We Eat in Dreams, sounds like your standard, tired Raymond Chandler private...
View ArticleLookin’ Good: Academic Exercises by K.J. Parker
If my experiences with author K.J. Parker and publisher Subterranean Press are any indicator, Academic Exercises will be a gorgeous book in every sense of the word. As far as I know, this will be the...
View ArticleFrom the Department of Shut Up And Take My Money: the Subterranean Press...
Subterranean Press is one of my favorite publishers in the SF/F world. They publish a wonderful range of works, from novels to novellas to short story collections and even the occasional non-fiction...
View ArticleSavages by K.J. Parker
K.J. Parker appears to be in a very prolific period in his career right now. In addition to the ongoing serial novel The Two of Swords (my review), which just had its sixth monthly installment...
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