See the Apocalypse Through the Eyes of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
In the Talking Heads song “(Nothing but) Flowers” David Byrne playfully laments a world overtaken by nature: “This used to…
Rich Rosell
One Last, Wild Ride with Miriam Black: Chuck Wendig’s Vultures
If you recognize Chuck Wendig’s name, there’s a good chance it’s because of his bestselling Star Wars tie-in novels, or…
Christopher Moore Goes Noir in His Latest Smart Genre Satire
My first exposure to Christopher Moore was his supremely absurd 2002 novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood…
Nightmares and Reality Merge in the Eerie Glimpse
Genre authors have employed nightmares, visions, hallucinations, and dreams to serve as woozy, off-balance plot devices, allowing their stories to…
Calculating the Deep Space Adventure of Binary/System
Fans of science fiction tend to have a gut-level tendency to only stand up and notice authors who bravely twist…
If Loving The Wrong Dead Guy Is Wrong, We Don’t Want to Be Right
After the end-of-the-world antics of 2016’s The Everything Box, I figured Richard Kadrey would have a tough time out-apocalypsing himself with…
The Last Sacrifice Is a First Among Gritty, Grimdark Fantasy Books
After having briefly stepped away from the sword-swinging comfort of the humongous epic fantasy genre, I’m back in it, with a…
Into The Guns Fires the First Shots in a Post-Apocalyptic Civil War
Every genre author approaches the beginning of a novel in a different way, but it is not uncommon to see them start…
Chuck Wendig Returns with a Techno-Thriller That Will Invade Your Dreams
Chuck Wendig has a lot going on. Even as his work on the Star Wars: Aftermath trilogy garners him an imperial star destroyer’s worth of…
Inside the Lockup with M.R. Carey’s Fellside
Mike Carey earned his stripes as a writer in the comics/graphic novel realm, penning the entire run of the Eisner Award-nominated…
What’s in The Everything Box? An Apocalyptic Romp
Some authors might be happy to crack the formula for one successful series. Richard Kadrey is not one them. His multi-volume Sandman Slim gritty urban…
The Cormorant Is a Deep Dive into a Dark Place
In the annals of wildly likable female antiheroes, the name Miriam Black should be up in lights, right next to Scarlett O’Hara and Lisbeth Salander.…
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Grows Up in Blood of Innocents
It had been quite some time since I dropped headlong into an expansive fantasy series. Then I read Mitchell Hogan’s A Crucible…
The Second Cut Is the Deepest: City of Blades Is a Masterful Sequel
City of Stairs was, without question, my favorite book of 2014. Robert Jackson Bennett’s masterful first stab at epic fantasy plotted…
The Red Trilogy Offers a Thrilling Hybrid of Military Action and Cutting Edge SF
Linda Nagata’s not-so-distant-future military sci-fi series The Red wraps up with Going Dark, capping a trilogy that has done more to get my heart…
Chuck Wendig’s Mockingbird Sings a Dark Song
Poor Miriam Black can’t seem to catch a break—as if her ability to know how you’re going to die isn’t enough…
Fantasy Gets a Wakeup Call from Down Under in A Crucible of Souls
The best thing about a humongous fantasy series is the promise of an extended stay in a world you love. The worst?…
Death Takes Flight in Chuck Wendig’s Blackbirds
In Blackbirds, Chuck Wendig introduces us to Miriam Black, the feisty and foul-mouthed twentysomething anti-hero with the unwanted ability to touch…