WoGF Review: The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer
I had not realized that landscape would play such a large role in this title, but it was a pleasant surprise and spoke to the same love of nature that I find in Tolkien's work, amongst others. The...
View ArticleWoGF Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is another one of those books everybody but me has read. It is one of the few works of science fiction (I'm not going to get into Atwood's reluctance to classify...
View ArticleWoGF Review: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Lou Arrendale was born too early to have his autism taken away. He did receive other interventions and now lives a fairly independent life. When his new boss tries to force him and his fellow autistic...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
I've always marveled and pondered the many ways authors handle the subject of dragons. In Seraphina, they are intelligent, possess advanced technology, and have a magical ability that lets them take...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
What happens to society after the apocalypse? Books, TV and movies are filled with examples of society breaking down into a depraved and brutal landscape and people. But what would happen if instead of...
View ArticleWoGF Review: The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer
I love sword and sorcery. Robert E. Howard, Karl Edward Wagner, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock… well, you get the idea. Based on her debut novel, Courtney Schafer may very well belong in that esteemed...
View ArticleWoGF Review: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Every now and then, a book attacks me and holds on tight and when I finish with it, it refuses to let me go. That's the case with the first book in the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, whom I declare...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
My (quite late) June WOGF review is of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, a fantasy/historical fiction/romance novel about time travel, Scotland, sex, Scottish men, and sex with Scottish men in Scotland after...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Fools by Pat Cadigan
In the future, mindplay is commonplace. Method actors build character personalities to run in their bodies for performances, celebrity personae are franchised and sold, and memories are manipulated for...
View ArticleWoGF Review: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
One possible definition of science fiction is that SF is about the potential effects of technology on humanity and the human environment. The potential of technology can create the "sense of wonder"...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough
Jo Fletcher Books is publisher to many good authors, including Tom Pollock, Snorri Kristjansson, and one Sarah Pinborough. Sarah is author to many dark stories, including her Dog Faced Gods horror...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Sword of Fire and Sea by Erin Hoffman
word of Fire and Sea by Erin Hoffman was a light, fun book. By no means perfect, but quite enjoyable. Captain Vidarian Rulorat is commissioned by the fire priestesshood to transport one of their own to...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
As part of World's Without End WoGF reading challenge for July I read Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear. I must say that I've been enjoying myself with this challenge. It's given me the incentive to...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Half World by Hiromi Goto
When we first meet Melanie Tamaki, the shy and neglected protagonist of Hiromi Goto's Half World, she is running with all her might, as she is being chased down the street by a pack of bullies who are...
View ArticleWoGF Review: To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
In Ned Henry's day, historians are very much involved in time travel, but unfortunately their main source of funding happens to be a tyrannical woman who is obsessed with renovating Coventry Cathedral....
View ArticleWoGF Review: The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
I've wanted to read Lauren Beukes for a while now but I always thought I'd start with Zoo City, whose description somehow spoke to me the most. Then I listened to the book review and interview with the...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Who Fears Death by the Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor is my seventh read for the Women of Genre Fiction reading challenge. Not bad considering I only started in May. At this pace I may finish...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal
I think 2013 has seen me branching out into more sub-genres of fantasy than any other year, thanks to participating in events like the Worlds Without End's Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge....
View ArticleWoGF Review: Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler's first novel was Sarah Canary, and this well recognized work was added to the list of Science Fiction Masterworks just last year. I left one spot open on my list of authors for the...
View ArticleWoGF Review: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
I've been meaning to read Elizabeth Bear for some time now, and after taking up Worlds Without End's Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, Range of Ghosts came out on top of that list. I was almost...
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