Review time!

Hey everyone. It’s time for me to push on y’all a little bit. Many of you have left reviews for Ours Is the Storm, and for that I thank you. Others I’ve asked not to post reviews, as you’re personal friends and I didn’t want all my reviews to be from folks who know me. That …

Review – The Lies of Locke Lamora

Here I am, procrastinating on actually working on my new projects (The Festival of Masks, a Mona Scrap, and RAZE, a fantasy web serial) or old projects (The Victorious Death of Eliza Warden) but sort of doing something useful by blogging a little. The Lies of Locke Lamora is funny, brutal at times, clever, and fresh. It’s Ocean’s …

I’m not telling you what to do but GO SEE FURY ROAD NOW

Mad Max: Fury Road was great. I was smiling the whole time when I wasn’t wincing or cackling. It’s fun, it’s exciting. It drops you face-first into a fully developed, vast, terrible world and doesn’t stop till the credits roll. More importantly, though, Fury Road takes us away from the remakes and reboots. It’s a …

Review – North American Lake Monsters

North American Lake Monsters, by Nathan Ballingrud Dark tales, some haunting, some disturbing, some hopeful. These stories are of human monsters and the monstrousness of us, in us; the others, the monsters outside, often are the less horrific. You’ll go places you’d rather have avoided, but come out the better. Some of these will stay …

Review – The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin 5/5 This is a beautiful book, beautifully written. A lot’s been said already by other reviewers, so I won’t go into that. This isn’t what you expect, if you’re unfamiliar with Le Guin and with a more thoughful style and speed of scifi. It’s extraordinarily political, heartbreaking, hopeful, and very, …