With the arrival of e-books and online retailers, I fret that local book shops might be doomed to extinction, along with the dodo, glaciers, and letting children trick-or-treat on Halloween without supervision. I love wandering amidst the towering bookshelves of a book store or library, but I admit that I often turn to the Internet...

After having read (and been quite impressed by) Paolo Bacigalupi’s Nebula Award- and Hugo Award-winning debut novel The Windup Girl, I was curious to see how he hoped to expand the world of young adult dystopian fiction. The genre has grown in popularity in recent years, with the City of...

100 pages into Clementine, and I couldn’t help but notice that the protagonist, Maria Isabella Boyd, possesses a little more spine than your average wilting flower. Cherie Priest‘s Clementine, the second work in her Clockwork Century timeline, follows characters new and old after...

Joe Abercrombie has earned a reputation for writing gritty, intense fantasy that’s unafraid to deconstruct and reexamine the old fantasy tropes. I’m glad to say, “Joe’s back,” this time with The Heroes, another standalone novel set in the world of The First Law trilogy.

To say there is a whole lot going on in Ilium would be a huge understatement. The novel begins with three separate settings and sets of characters, each of them completely compartmentalized from the others... Although the date is never specifically referenced, Dan Simmon's characters give the impression that Ilium's events are occurring in a faraway future, perhaps thousands of years from our present day lives.

My first impression of Brandon Sanderson’s Warbreaker? I must admit that my initial thoughts were not promising. Even before I had the chance to read a single word, the cover had disappointed me. Dan Dos Santos crafted a decent, if not exceptional, painting, but the layout felt awkward....