The Fatal Tree by Stephen R. Lawhead – review
Science fiction and fantasy are filled with stories of all that can go wrong with time-travel. Once human beings gain the ability to travel into the past (or future), they immediately start searching...
View ArticleShattering the Ley by Joshua Palmatier – review
Shattering the Ley is the first book in a promising new series by Joshua Palmatier. While the cover of this hardcover edition tells us immediately that this is A Fantasy Novel, the setting blends magic...
View ArticleFool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb – review
In Fool’s Assassin, Robin Hobb returns to the story of FitzChivalry Farseer, the character that started the Farseer Trilogy nearly two decades ago. While we watched Fitz grow up and become the King’s...
View ArticleBoomtron’s Book Related Content in Back Up – Interviews, Reviews, Guest Posts...
Just an announcement that Boomtron’s archives are back up, full of a several dozen, interviews, reviews, author guest posts and articles. Stuff from and about George R.R. Martin, Jacqueline Carey,...
View ArticleApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times – review
ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times is a new graphic novel from Dark Horse Comics that will be released on May 20, 2015. It follows the story of Aria, a young woman who has been marooned on a...
View ArticleYesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress – review
I have been a fan of Nancy Kress ever since I read Beggars in Spain and discovered that science fiction could be more than an action story with aliens or starships. Her latest release, Yesterday’s Kin,...
View ArticleHarper Lee “Go Set a Watchman”– July 14th
Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” is set for a July 14th release date. Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” won her the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for its view of racial injustice in the South....
View ArticleThieftaker Ethan Kaille, on Boston in 1770 By D.B. Jackson – Guest Post
I am afraid I have little time to share with you today. Pressing matters demand that I linger only for a short while. A great many odd occurrences have, of late, plagued our fair city, and I fear that,...
View ArticleThrone of Darkness by Douglas Nicholas – review
Throne of Darkness is the third book in an enchanting historical fantasy series by author Douglas Nicholas. While knowledge of the earlier volumes would be helpful before reading this book, it is not...
View ArticlePlayin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Catelyn Stark Chapter 18
She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 18, a...
View ArticlePlayin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Jon Snow Chapter 19
She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 19, a Jon...
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Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link Review
I can safely say that I’ve never met a Kelly Link story that I didn’t like, and, after re-reading her alchemical debut collection “Stranger Things Happen”, I’m just about ready to tell you why. First,...
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Review – The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
“Are you okay?” That is the question asked, in one form or another, in nearly all of the stories that comprise Christopher Barzak’s new mosaic novel The Love We Share Without Knowing. It is a...
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Zoran Živković Interview + Seven Touches of Music + Steps Through the Mist...
This week our guest is World Fantasy Award winning author Dr. Zoran Živković. Publishers in the UK and USA have snapped up Živković’s stories, written in his native Serbian, in English translation at...
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Blindsight by Peter Watts Review
One of the things I find interesting about “hard” science fiction — by way of introducing Peter Watts’s Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight, the best example of the type that I have read in years — is...
View ArticleGuy Gavriel Kay Interview – Ysabel
This week our featured author is critically acclaimed, award-winning writer Guy Gavriel Kay, author of the soon-to-be released novel Ysabel, and many other historical fantasies including The Last...
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Escaping into Fiction – Sharon Shinn Guest Blog
When I was having an interesting time of it in college, I was seized with the notion that I was reading an incredibly long and detailed story about a woman named Sharon Shinn, and at some point I...
View ArticleThe Love (stories) of our Lives?
Synergy is back! This is the second installment of the monthly feature. The basic gist is that one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to mixed in...
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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Eddard Stark Chapter 33
She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader. She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet. Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on. Today they react to Chapter...
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