The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan – review
If you have ever felt like women are difficult to understand, reading a Caitlin R. Kiernan book isn’t going to help you unravel that mystery any time soon. One of the things that I have always liked...
View ArticleStill Life with Shape-shifter by Sharon Shinn – review
Still Life with Shape-shifter is a loose sequel to last fall’s The Shape of Desire. It expands on the world and includes some of the characters from Shape but has different main characters. The...
View ArticleCover Art Debuted For The Garden Of Stones
The cover art for the upcoming fantasy novel The Garden of Stones by Australian novelist Mark Barnes which comes out May 21, 2013. The novel is one that lovers of the fantasy genre will immediately...
View ArticleWhat are you reading this week?
I just got my copy of Imager’s Batallion, the 6th book in L. E. Modesitt’s series. The package might as well have come with a birthday card from Tor. Happy Moff Elena, indeed! I also picked up a copy...
View ArticleMore Steampunk Ace Monkeys and New Jackie Collins!
Just a couple news pieces to share this morning. First, a reminder for any Jackie Collins fans out there that her new book, The Power Trip, is due out on Feb. 12 from Macmillan. Board the exclusive...
View ArticleTesseracts Sixteen (Parnassus Unbound) ed. by Mark Leslie – Review
Looking for a veritable banquet of the finest Canadian speculative fiction? Look no further than Tesseracts Sixteen (Parnassus Unbound) edited by Mark Leslie. Each of the previous anthologies have had...
View ArticleBetter Book Cover – The Mad Scientists Guide to World Dominations Or Elsewhens
Stay tuned as we are testing out some ideas on how to make our March Madness book tournament the best it can be. That being said, vote for the book cover you like the most by Facebook…we will be adding...
View ArticleScent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder – review
Publisher’s Description: As the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, Avry of Kazan is in a unique position: in the minds of friends and foes alike, she no longer exists. Despite her need to prevent the...
View ArticleA Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan – review
Publisher’s Description: You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to...
View ArticleThe Literary World of Pulp Adventure (And Dragons) With Marie Brennan – Guest...
All Art Courtesy of Todd Lockwood Ahhh, pulp adventure. It’s so fun, and yet such a mess. It was never a respected corner of publishing, even when respectable authors were working in it. The whole idea...
View ArticleNight of the Swarm by Robert V.S. Redick – review
Publisher’s Description: The mighty centuries old ship, Chathrand is long gone . . . At the centre of an infernal forest there is clearing. Above it looms a seven hundred foot tall fragment of a vast...
View ArticlePrized by Caragh O’Brien – review
Growing up all too often means picking your battles. As you grow up and develop your own system of values, you choose the things that are important to you based on your experiences with the people...
View ArticleGillian Philip – FIREBRAND – interview
Bookspotcentral.com is very pleased to bring in author Gillian Philip for a fireside chat about her newest book, Firebrand, out today in the U.S. We talk about the inspiration for the book, characters...
View ArticleGeek Girl’s Fictional Junk Food-o-Rama –“The Enormous Egg”
When I was growing up, there wasn’t a local bookstore anywhere close by. I depended primarily on the racks of paperbacks in the grocery store and the local pharmacy both for comic books and regular...
View ArticleNightfall by Stephen Leather – Review – Douglas R. Cobb
Former police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s own father sold his soul to a devil in return for vast wealth. However, he doesn’t bother to let his son know about this small fact until it is close to the...
View ArticleTrickster by Jeff Somers – review
Publisher’s Description: Magic uses blood—a lot of it. The more that’s used, the more powerful the effect, so mages find “volunteers” to fuel their spells. Lem, however, is different. Long ago he set...
View Article7th Annual Book Tournament: Last Call for Nominations!
Did you read a published book last year that could be classifed as fantasy or science fiction? Do you think it might be one of the best 64 SFF novels of 2012? Then tell us about it! Nominate it for...
View ArticleBrandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings sequel will be WORDS OF RADIANCE
A bit late with this, but worth noting all the same! Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings has a sequel coming out this November from Tor, and they just released the title: Words of Radiance. Included with...
View ArticleSeed by Ania Ahlborn – Review – Douglas R. Cobb
For a taste of Southern Gothic horror, look no further than Seed by Ania Ahlborn. The horror is a bit slow to build, but there are plenty of gruesome and bloody moments in the novel to appeal to the...
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