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- Winners of the Max Frei/The Stranger Giveaway!
- Spotlight on Selected May Books
- 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner
- "Nights of Villjamur" by Mark Charan Newton (Revie...
- Winners of The Crown Conspiracy & Avempartha Givea...
- "Agents of Artifice" by Ari Marmell (Reviewed by D...
- Flash News: FBC's co-editor Fabio Fernandes publis...
- On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: Book 1 in...
- 2009 Nebula Award - The Winners
- Overlooked Masterpiece Novella: The Crystal Cosmos...
- Nebula Awards Weekend
- Nebula Awards Finalists, Part 1 - Brasyl, by Ian M...
- Interview with Alan Campbell (Interviewed by Mihir...
- Index of Reviews
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- Publishing News from Orbit
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- David Gemmell short list announced; Liviu comments...
- "Blood of Ambrose" by James Enge (Reviewed by Robe...
- "A Madness of Angels" by Kate Griffin — New Book T...
- PKD Award - The Winners
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- "God of Clocks" by Alan Campbell (Reviewed by Robe...
- The Philip K. Dick Award Nominees, Part 4 - Termin...
- The Philip K. Dick Award Nominees, Part 3 - Emissa...
- Winners of the Walter Jon Williams/This Is Not A G...
- Spotlight on Alternative Coordinates #1 (by Liviu ...
- The Philip K. Dick Award Nominees, Part 2 - Time M...
- "Corambis" by Sarah Monette (Reviewed by Liviu C. ...
- The Philip K. Dick Award Nominees, Part 1 - Plague...
- Spotlight on Impossibillia by Douglas Smith (by Li...
- Tor Officially Announces Release Date for 12th Whe...
- "A Madness of Angels" by Kate Griffin (Reviewed by...
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- Index of Monthly Spotlights
- SPOTLIGHT: Books of April 2009
Slanted Jack by Mark VanName (mmpb reprint); Jon&Lobo 2 in a triple cross scheme with an unusual boy wanted by various parties and who is in the care of con-man expert and on and off partner of Jon, "Slanted" Jack of the title; if you are not familiar with this superb adventure sf series get the first one One Step Ahead and this one in preparation for book 3 Overthrowing Heaven which will be a June spotlight book and will have a review here that month. This series is a Personal Favorite
The City and the City by China Mieville - author's name says it all; the one *must* May book; review soon
The Laurentine Spy by Emily Gee - review HERE; personal favorite and a superb book
Fall of Thanes by Brian Ruckley - highly awaited ending of the trilogy; Winterbirth was reviewed HERE, Bloodheir HERE, this one will have an early/mid May review too
Consorts of Heaven by Jaine Fenn (UK only release)- Principles of Angels reviewed HERE was a personal favorite for 2008 and this one has been one of the most eagerly awaited books for 2009; review as soon as I get the book
The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner (first US edition) - "once there was a boy with an extraordinary gift.." - this is a book of major interest to us that will be checked out on publication and possibly reviewed here
Twisted Metal by Tony Ballantyne (UK only release) - Robots, robots, robots
Age of Misrule by Mark Chadbourn (first US edition) - Celtic gods wreak havoc in modern London; first in a multi-novel series brought by Pyr to the US public
Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey - Ms. Carey of Kushiel's fame (Kushiel 5 reviewed HERE, Kushiel 6 reviewed HERE, Kushiel 7 which starts a new cycle several generations later with fresh characters to be reviewed asap) in urban fantasy mode
Wings by Aprilynne Pike
A fantasy romance in which a young girl finds out that she is a fairy after living life as a human for so many years and is thrown into a world of mysterious creatures. While fighting off evil creatures the girl is in the middle of a love triangle.
Magic Thief: Lost by Sarah Prienas and Antonio J. Caparo (illus) - Sequel to the Magic Thief series. Comm, a wizard's apprentice hears voices every time he works a spell. After numerous attempts of warning other wizards, Comm decides to take action into his own hands and deal with it himself, where he runs into some weird encounters.
Starfinder by John Marco
No one ventures into the "Reach" and lives to tell about it. After life events cause a shocking change for 12 year old Moth, he decides to run away into the Reach, where another world is waiting for him and eventually the middle of a war that has been on the verge of breaking out.
Edit Later: Robert was kind to comment HERE and add a list of his favorite May books so I added the covers above and remixed a little bit the cover exposition for balance.
"The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún" by JRR Tolkien
"The Curse of the Mistwraith" by Janny Wurts (Reprint)
"The Ask and the Answer" by Patrick Ness (UK Only)
"Worst Nightmares" by Shane Briant
"Norse Code" by Greg Van Eekhout
"Bad Things" by Michael Marshall (US Debut)
Earlier Monthly Spotlights can be found HERE
PS: Though the award has been given yesterday, neither the official award site nor the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival has confirmed the info yet -- but Graham Sleight, editor of Foundation, was there and saw everything, as told to Cheryl Morgan in the comments of the related post in Science Fiction Awards Watch. Thank you, Graham!!
Fantasy readers are no strangers to long-winded exposition. For every gripping battle and flowing stream of dialogue and intrigue come pages of meandering description of the leaves of a tree or a tavern's common room that ultimately resembles all the others. Even combat only has so much appeal before the interest in stances, cuts, and parries becomes akin to a how-to on surgical procedures rather than a visceral experience.
Author Ari Marmell's Agents of Artifice is a prime example of what should be every writer's foremost axiom: show, don't tell. Marmell's successful application of breakneck character and plot development results in an excellent narrative that is equal parts truth and deception.
Agents of Artifice is two-thirds a tale set in its present day, and one-third a prequel to its own story. Less than 100 pages into the tale, I found myself completely stunned and enraptured by a plot twist that firmly has its way with the "nothing is what it seems" cliché, a pleasant surprise in an age where true plot twists are unforeseen. The twist propels both reader and protagonist (whose name I have intentionally omitted so as to preserve the surprise) back several years in an exploration of the events that led to the book's beginning before reinstating character and audience back in the present in search of resolution.
It's the sort of story that mandates a build-up to current events, and one that may seem adverse to skirting exposition. After all, if one is to understand a character's current predicament, one must be presented with a solid foundation, and that would seem to require copious explanation. Not so with Agents of Artifice: Marmell's method of delivery makes the venture into the protagonist's past just as compelling as his present. Readers experience events for the first time right along with the protagonist at a smooth pace that never falters. Readers learn along with the protagonist, allowing events to build to a crescendo of puzzle pieces snapping logically into place with each turn of the page rather than constant narration interjections.
Questions posed at the beginning of the book--who is this person? who are his friends? why is this or that name so important?--are answered upon delving into the character's past. By comprising the bulk of the story as a prequel, Marmell assures readers insight into present and even future events without bogging them down in details.
The pace also allows characters to evolve gradually, blooming and evolving before a reader's eyes. While each of his characters is interesting, all suffer from Marmell's apparent affinity for witty and sarcastic quips. Such biting dialogue is used for every character, which often gives them all a feeling of sameness--and that's when the attempts at humor don't fall flat. Situations in which characters should be running for their lives regardless of their personalities are all too often preceded by cringe-worthy banter that would charm any loyal viewer of primetime sitcoms, but not necessarily fantasy.
That's not to say the dialogue is always inappropriate; it often works well, and most characters do drop their facetious pretenses when the need arises for their true nature to be revealed. It's simply overused and sometimes serves to induce eye-rolling when a situation calls more for intensity and drama.
Agents of Artifice is an excellent example of walking a character's road in his shoes. It is a self-contained trilogy that doesn't require two to three years of waiting between books, and comes highly recommended to all fantasy readers regardless of their familiarity with Magic: The Gathering fiction.
Fabio Fernandes, our co-editor here at Fantasy Book Critic has just published a new story in Everyday Weirdness:
"The Arrival of the Cogsmiths (oil on canvas, by Turner, 1815)"
The story is set in the same milieu as the story:
"The Boulton-Watt-Frankenstein Company"
published earlier this year by Everyday Weirdness.
Cindy and Liviu congratulate Fabio on his achievement.
On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: Book 1 in the Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson (Spotlight Reviewed by Cindy Hannikman)
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The story revolves around three children, Tink, Janner and Leeli Igiby who live in a cottage on the outskirts of the city of Skree with their mother and grandpa. A long time ago there was a Great War that took place and the Venomous Fang have moved into the city. These evil lizard like officers patrol the area, keeping the citizens of Skree in constant fear. However, the Fang are really looking for a set of jewels that hold the key to the great King of Anniera and the possibility to rule over the whole world, spreading fear and destruction wherever they go.
Even though the citizens live in fear, every year there is the great Dragon Festivel and people gather to celebrate and at sunset watch the Dragons dance in the Dark Sea. This is where the whole story starts picking up. The Igiby children have an encounter with the Fangs and are in grave danger.
After escaping the danger, the children go on a quest to find out what these jewels might be. Along the way they find out a lot more about their past, and what is to come in the future for the family. The story is laced with silly characters, adventures, and great story telling.
This book is pure magic from the beginning. Andrew Peterson is a song writer, and while most song writers turned authors fall short on the story and plot line, Peterson does an excellent job. There are several appeal characteristics to this book.
First, this book can be loved an enjoyed by anyone no matter what age you are. Adults will find the whitty conversations, and quick flowing plot-lines a nice easy read that is sure to satisfy anyone looking for a fantasy read. On the other hand, it's a great story for children and teens. There isn't anything offensive, and there is plenty of action that will keep the kids interested. I can even picture this book being read out loud to children.
The second major strength of this book is the characters. While there are silly conversations, all the characters seem real. No one is really one sided. Instead Peterson does a great job in creating these three children and their family. You really want to get to know and keep reading on about them and learn more about them and their adventures.
The culture of Skree and the people, serve as the third strength of this book. Peterson has
created this whole world, where there are books that are referenced, and traditions that are followed. For older readers, he explains everything so that you feel as though you have grown up in Skree your whole life.
There are only a few slight drawbacks on the book. As this is the first book of a series, it does take a tiny amount of time to get flowing and get to know the characters and land around them. After the reader knows the culture and characters it's an easy read. The second drawback is that the book ends just when it's getting good. So you are left with a cliff-hanger, but one that makes you want to keep reading the series.
In the end, Peterson does an excellent job of creating a silly, witty world of Skree and making the readers feel as though they grew up in Skree. It's a great read for anyone of all ages, and there is a lot of promise for this series of books. I look forward to reading the rest of the books, because this series can only get better.
* Powers - Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt, Sep07)
* The Spacetime Pool - Catherine Asaro (Analog, Mar08)
* Pride and Prometheus - John Kessel (F&SF, Jan08)
Short Story
* Trophy Wives - Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fellowship Fantastic, ed. Greenberg and Hughes, Daw Jan08)
* WALL-E - Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
Andre Norton Award
* Flora's Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try to Save Califa from a Shaky Doom (Despite Being Confined to Her Room) - Ysabeau S. Wilce (Harcourt, Sep08)
I´m still running somewhat late as reviews are concerned - but I haven´t given up! I already started publishing reviews of the Nebula Finalists at Fantasy Book Critic (the first one was written by my pal Jacques a while ago, on Ian McDonald´s Brasyl - the others will start to be reviewed from tomorrow on. After that, I´ll resume the reviews of the PKD Award and also of the upcoming Arthur C. Clarke Award. Stay tuned!
From PS Publishing I am presenting The Crystal Cosmos by Rhys Hughes
The Crystal Cosmos is a novella clocking at about 80 pages but pulling the weight of a book triple its size; I would say that extended to about 150 pages it would have been a masterpiece, but even so it's a very, very good read.
It's partly wacky space opera, partly planet adventure and partly satire with a two threaded storyline that converges and intertwines delightfully.
In one thread on a strange Earth-like planet but with some notable differences that I leave to the reader to discover, the "natural philosophers" and official dogma have a view of the Universe sort of like the science one today - material, uncreated, chaotic, no gods, billions of stars, the Earth revolves around the Sun - and it takes young goat shepherd Daphnis, uneducated but with a sharp mind. to perform experiments that show that actually some objects fall faster than others, the Earth is flat and the Sun revolves in a fixed and rigid orbit...
The Ptolemaic model of the Solar System and more generally the clockwork universe theory actually holds, so God or gods *must* exist since after all who created and started it, but it is heresy to claim so and Daphnis may find himself on "death row" if his claims become widely known.
In the other thread in a Multiverse analogue of our Earth, Sappho Ritsos an operative of the official "Trust" that supervises faster than light travel using the "altwhere" "drive" and protects the rights of the "natives" and their planets, teams with highly manipulative famous prospector Cankar who claims he found a Solar System made of a diamond like substance and wants mining rights.
Dense and worth at least one re-read I liked this novella a lot, but I felt a bit cheated of a masterpiece since 80 pages are just not enough to do justice to the wealth of ideas introduced here.
Highly, highly recommended if you can get a hold of a copy.
While the arcane rules of the award eligibility have been recently simplified (via SF Scope) this year's Nominees have been chosen based on the old rules, so they are from both 2007 and 2008.
For the full list click through the Nominees link, while here we will present the novels and their Fantasy Book Critic reviews when available.
The 2008 Nebula Award novel nominees are:
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow (Tor, Apr 08)
Powers - Ursula K. Le Guin (Harcourt, Sep 07)
Cauldron - Jack McDevitt (Ace, Nov 07)
Brasyl - Ian McDonald (Pyr, May 07)
Making Money - Terry Pratchett (Harper, Sep 07)
Superpowers - David J. Schwartz (Three Rivers Press, Jun 08)
Liviu's take: I read only two novels from the list Cauldron and Brasyl since those are the only ones of interest to me.
I love Jack McDevitt's fiction, own and have read all his novels and loved most of them, some quite a lot, and *of course* this means you will see reviews of any new McDevitt novel here as long as I will contribute to FBC - starting with last year's The Devil's Eye reviewed in October 08.
I loved Cauldron the last Academy novel featuring Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchinson and found it a fitting ending to the series. Not the best of the series which is still Engines of God, but not the so-so Omega which was the weakest one by far.
Excellent storytelling and great characters with solid sfnal content is what makes Jack McDevitt a big time favorite author of mine and both the Academy series and the Alex Benedict one show that.
Regarding Ian McDonald, I was not that interested in his novels before the career defining River of Gods which was just superb; since then I started enjoying his new work including his superb short fiction set both in the River of Gods universe collected in Cyberabad Days and in his Tear universe.
This last novella is just mind-blowing and was the highlight of the strong Galactic Empire anthology, ed. G. Dozois that I found the best original anthology of 2008.
I found Brasyl very well written and extraordinarily atmospheric, but I thought the sfnal elements do not coalesce well and River of Gods is still the superior novel.
So overall, I do not have an informed opinion on this year's award - which personally I consider the weakest by far of all major, pedigreed sff awards - since both novels nominated that I have read were very good, but not the respective author's best or in my top 10 of 2007.
Fabio Fernandes is continuing his superb major sff award coverage after the PKD with reviews of the Nebula novels and news of the event.
Nebula Awards Finalists, Part 1 - Brasyl, by Ian McDonald (reviewed by Jacques Barcia)
The first novel of the lot is Ian McDonald´s Brasyl. Jacques Barcia wrote it in March 2008 in his own blog. It is reproduced here with his permission.)
Parallel lives, parallel times, parallel universes. And a single country. Or not quite so. In Brasyl, Irish writer Ian McDonald opens a window to three distinct landscapes: one futurist, descending from cyberpunk tradition; other contemporary, an echo of news services and the fever of reality shows; and, at last, one in the past, in a mysterious and predatory jungle, an independent world inside a colony. Linking all these three universes, so distant from each other, and at the same time so close, is quantum physics, its possibilities and its consequences.
The book tells the story of three characters separated in time and space. In 2006 Rio de Janeiro, Marcelina Hoffman is a TV producer specialized in reality shows seeking Barbosa, the goalkeeper of the fateful 1950 final, when Brazil lost for Uruguay in the Maracanã stadium. In ultra-surveillance society of 2032 São Paulo, entrepreneur and street guy Edson Jesus Oliveira de Freitas has his life tured upside down when he gets involved with a girl member of a gang of quantumeiros, physicians that use illegal quantum computing to break any kind of code. And in 1732 Amazon, Jesuit father Luis Quinn hunts, in the name of the Church and the Portuguese Crown, another father that would be building his own theocracy in the heart of the jungle. And in the middle of all this, two conspiracies that cross the wall between realities: one tries to keep the multiverse a secret, while the other tries to open up the realities as the only way to save them.
But Brasyl is much more than this. It is a book that keeps the title Science Fiction has earned: that of last representative of the literature of ideas. Just because of that, Brasyl is not an easy book, even less a conventional SciFi book.
In the book, McDonald builds, in those three narrative lines, three discussions: the number of lives an individual may have, the quantity of landscapes and societies a country can have and, finally, how many different worlds fit in a universe. It is a tour, from micro to macrocosm, about the nature of identity. It is a book about philosophy, physics and the nature of reality. About choices, secrets and masks. It is a book about a country that never were and maybe never will be. About parallel realities, but focused in their similitudes rather than their differences.
In the end, Brasyl is not even a single book, but many, inside a single tome of about 400 pages. That is because McDonald wrote, between the lines, that he could have made made books with the same premise, the same elements and the same characters. Brasyl could have been a book about interdimensional intrigue. It could have been a action-packed book, with capoeira, gunshots and swordfights. It could have been an epic in the jungle. It could have been a book about the future of a country dominated by soap operas and reality cop shows, controlled by a surveillance system that monitors, from the stratosphere, every person, every object. Not that all these elements are not present in McDonald's book. There are fight scenes in which capoeira is described in all its beaty, a afro-descendent version of Hong Kong movies. There are swordfights, both in 18th century chivalric tradition, and in a future one, with the Q-Blades, capable of cutting in the quantum level.
But instead, McDonald decided to spend most of the book writing about three characters and their individual parallel realities: a blond girl that is also a capoeira practiotioner and tries to keep her beauty tp be a little happier, and at the same time that maintains a love affair with a colleague without knowing if it is love at all; a priest, that is an assassin and a general; and a man that by day is an entrepreneur, in love for a Japanese descendent girl, by night is a cross-dresser, a dance queen, and in the weekends is a super-hero, a homoerotic fetish.
And McDonald tells these stories using a special, poetic and labyrinthine prose. The points of view going back and forth, both between the three main characters, as in their minds eye, their memories and multiples lives, too often jump to different scenes in the same paragraph. The structure McDonald uses in Brasyl completes the notion of parallel realities and is the mark of an author that has control over his book.
Through three main characters, both believable an empathic, McDonald explores the nature of Brazilian people. Even if he hasn't lived in Brazil, doing his research in a couple of visits to São Paulo, Bahia and the Amazon, and reading the few books about Brazil available in English, McDonald was able to capture, with amazing precision, th Brazilian spirit. And he did this without clichés, without hullabaloos, but with critical observations regarding the importance Brazilian people gives to beauty, soccer and TV. Besides, geographically everything is right and linguistically, it is better than most foreigners trying the language of Camões.
The author mixes his English with many terms in Portuguese, which causes a positive estrangement much more interesting to fellow English speakers, but here it becomes the only and real downside of the book. There is a great deal of misspellings: non existent diacritical marks, misplaced accent marks and some inaccurate translations. But that is something that does not diminishes the book's brilliance and importance.
A hell of an accomplishment for a gringo, definitely Brasyl is a book Brazilians must read.
Fantasy Book Critic was given the opportunity to interview Alan Campbell via email before the release of his newest novel: God of Clocks. God of Clocks is the third book in the Deepgate Codex series and was released in the US on April 14, 2009 and in the UK on July 3, 2009. Thanks to Mihir for his interviewing skills.
Q: Who is/are your favorite character/characters from your books and why?
I suppose I like Mr Nettle, because he's such a loner, and because of his relentless determination. And because I always wondered what his first name was.
Q: What type of writer are you. An Outliner or a freewriter? And could you give us a glimpse of your writing style and schedule?
Both. I outline, and then deviate wildly from it. My schedule depends on how close the deadline is, and on my mood that day. Sometimes I'll work in manic bursts, writing thousands of words in one sitting, and other times I'll just be staring at a blank screen for ages. I wish I could write to a fixed schedule, but my brain doesn't really work like that.
Q: The world of Deepgate codex which you have created is quite a encompassing one, how did you go about creating it? What was your inspiration and what were your inventions in context to world building? What's your take on the debate of character-driven story vs fully realized world?
Page by page, which sounds inane, but it's the truth. The Deepgate world began as a simple idea which I developed in more detail as the story went on. I don't really know where the idea came from, or if anything inspired it, but certain inventions in the book were born out of necessity. For example, a city under constant threat needs an army, but how do you support an army in this unusual environment? What allowances have to be made for horses? And so on.
If there's a debate about character-driven story vs full realized world, I'm firmly on both sides of it.
Q: If not fantasy which other genre would you have chosen to write in? And do you have any plans to publish books in any other genre?
I enjoy writing fantasy, so I'm happy to stick with that. I've heard it said that genres choose authors, rather than the other way round, which sort of makes sense and yet manages to be completely ridiculous at the same time.
Q: What book/books [irrespective of genre] have you read recently or in the past that have made an impression on you?
Everything by Cormac McCarthy. His prose is beautiful. I wish he'd hurry up and write some more books. Recently I've been reading a lot of Graham Greene. I love the way he gets inside his characters' heads.
Q: Which authors that you have read & are your favorites, would you recommend to your fans esp. in the fantasy/sci-fi genre, [you can cite other genres as well]
Read M John Harrison's Viriconium novels. There's nothing else like it out there. And I thoroughly recommend Clark Ashton Smith if you like gothic horror tales.
Q: To any new reader who hasn't read any of your books what would you say about them and your writing so as to draw them to give your books a try!
Normally I just skulk around bookshops, wearing a fake beard, and approach people saying, "Have you read this? It's brilliant." But it's becoming more difficult now because the staff are on to me.
Q: What are your plans for the future? Are there any more books set in the Deepgate universe or are you planning a foray into another world?
There are three more books planned. They're not set in Deepgate, exactly.
Q: What do you do when you are not writing or reading books, what are your other hobbies?
My hobbies include having my old Triumph motorbike repaired each year and wondering when I'll have time to go out on it again before rust renders it unusable. I also enjoy gazing at my snowboard, and wondering when I'll find a spare moment to strap it on and hurtle down the slopes.
Q: What do you want to accomplish as a writer?
I want to write the sort of stories I enjoy reading. And I'd be happy if other people enjoyed them too. I'd also like a film deal, a million pounds and a yacht, thank you very much. Who wouldn't?
Q: You have created a vast & very alienistic world[in the sense of combining fantastical & sci-fi elements] how did you go about it & how much did your background as a Videogame designer help/hinder it.
People always ask me that, and I honestly don't know if a background in videogames helps when it comes to writing a book. Both processes are creative ones, I suppose, so I can see why people make the connection.
Q: God of Clocks ends the trilogy begun with Scar night followed by Iron Angel, what can we expect from this book?
Hopefully some surprises.
Q: In Scar night you focused only on Deepgate & the world below, however in Iron Angel the reader was exposed to panorama of sights and places & was given the rundown about the world's previous god conflict, did you always plan to so drastically change the course of the series in the 2nd book & expand the horizons in such a vast way?
In a sense, yes. Deepgate was quite claustrophobic, and I wanted to write about characters and places far beyond its borders.
Q: Where do you see yourself ten years from now? Will you ever retire from professional writing?
I've no idea, so I'm going to say I see myself sitting on a beach sipping a Margarita, which is a nice thought. I'll probably be on holiday, but what the hell. I wouldn't want to retire – writing stories is too much fun. If I did retire, I'd only spend my free time writing.
Q: What was the reason for the rebellion/fight off the gods against their mother Ayen & what is Menoa doing in hell if he was on Ayen's side & if they won the war.... and why is Ayen not doing anything uptill now.
All is explained/revealed in the third book.
Q: Both your previous titles have had last line cliffhanger situations, Should readers brace for a hatrick?
No. The last book ends the series.
Note: The interview has been conducted for Fantasy Book Critic by Mihir Wanchoo who has assisted us in several other interviews and to whom we are grateful for his help.
As promised we are going live with the Review Index. We covered almost all the reviews from the blog, the few exceptions will be added in time once we straighten out the inevitable mistakes in such a large undertaking. We welcome comments pointing to such - eg wrong or bad links, misspelled names...
The reviewers are noted by initials:
Main/Current: Robert Thompson (RT), Liviu Suciu (LS), Cindy Hannikman (CH), Mihir Wanchoo (MW)
Occasional/Former: Fabio Fernandes (FF), Jaques Barcia (JB), David Craddock (DC)
We have 538 reviews indexed and linked so far and of course new reviews are continuously added and will be indexed and linked on a weekly basis, while this list will be always linked from the main page.
Current # reviews: 746
Aaron, Rachel, The Spirit Thief, MW + LS
Aaron, Rachel, The Spirit Rebellion, MW
Abercrombie, Joe, Before They Are Hanged RT
Abercrombie, Joe, Best Served Cold LS
Abercrombie, Joe, The Heroes LS
Abercrombie, Joe, The Blade Itself RT
Abraham, Daniel, A Betrayal in Winter RT
Abraham, Daniel, An Autumn War with bonus Q/A RT
Agarwal Shilpa, Haunting Bombay MW
Akers, Tim, Heart of Veridon LS
Alexander, Alma, Worldweavers RT
Allen, Justin, Slaves of Shinar RT
Amsterdam, Steven, Things We Didn't see Coming LS
Anders, Lou ed. Fast Forward 2 FF
Anderson, Barth, The Magician and the Fool RT
Anderson, Kevin, Enemies and Allies CH + FF
Anderson, Kevin, The Edge of the World LS + CH
Anderson, Kevin, The Map of all Things LS
Andrews, Ilona, Magic Bites and Magic Burns (MW)
Andrews, Ilona, Magic Strikes and Magic Mourns (MW)
Andrews, Ilona, Magic Bleeds and A Questionable Client (MW)
Agarwal, Shilpa, Haunting Bombay MW
Armstrong, Kelley, A Fantasy Medley RT
Ash, Sarah, The Eclectic Worlds of Artamon MW
Asher, Neal, Brass Man RT
Asher, Neal, Hilldiggers RT
Asher, Neal, Line War + Bonus Q/A RT
Asher, Neal, The Technician FF
Astruc, R.J., Festival of Skeletons LS
Athans, Philip, The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction DC
Auster, Paul, Invisible LS
Atwood, Margaret, The Year of the Flood LS
Avanti, Michele, GreeHee: The Journey of Five. Book One of the Tales of Tamoor CH
Bacigalupi, Paolo, Ship Breaker CH
Bacigalupi, Paolo, The Windup Girl FF
Baker, Kage, Hotel Under the Sand CH
Bakker, R. Scott, The Judging Eye (Aspect-Emperor, #1) LS
Bakker, R. Scott, Neuropath RT
Bakker, R. Scott, Disciple of the Dog RT
Banks, Dakota, Dark Time MW
Banks, Iain, Transition LS
Banks, Iain, Surface Detail LS
Ballard, Gary A, Under the Amoral Bridge MW
Barclay James, Dawnthief CH
Barclay James, Noonshade CH
Barlow, Toby, Sharp Teeth RT
Barlowe, Wayne, God's Demon RT
Barnett, David, Angelglass LS
Barker, Clive, Mister B. Gone RT
Barnes, Jonathan, The Somnambulist RT
Barton, William, Invitation to His Work LS
Bazell, Josh, Beat the Reaper: A Novel RT
Bear, Greg, Hull Zero Three LS
Bear, Elizabeth, Dust RT
Beckett, Galen , The Magicians and Mrs. Quent RT
Beckett, Galen, The House on Durrow Street LS
Bennett, Robert Jackson, Mr. Shivers CH + MW
Beddor, Frank, Archenemy + Hatter M. Mad Bonus Review RT
Beddor, Frank and others Hatter M. The Nature of Wonder RT
Beddor, Frank, Seeing Redd RT
Bedford, K.A., Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait FF
Bemis, John Claude, Nine Pound Hammer CH
Berger, John, G LS
Beyer, Doug, Alara Unbroken DC
Bell, Alex, Jasmyn LS
Bell, Alex, The Ninth Circle LS
Bell Alex, Lex Trent Versus the Gods LS
Berg, Carol, The Spirit Lens LS
Berg, Carol, The Soul Mirror LS
Bernobich, Beth, A Handful of Pearls LS
Bernobich, Beth, Passion Play RT + LS
Berry, Jedediah, The Manual of Detection RT
Berry, Julie, The Amaranth Enchantment CH
Bilsborough, David, Wanderer's Tale RT
Birkegaard, Mikkel, The Library of Shadows LS + CH
Blatty, William Peter, Elsewhere RT
Bledsoe, Alex, Sword Edged Blonde RT
"Blissett, Luther", Q LS
Bodard, de, Aliette, Servant of the Underworld LS
Bolano, Roberto, Monsieur Pain LS
Bowman, James, The Adversary MW
Bowling, Drew, Tower of Shadows RT
Brett, Peter V., The Painted Man LS
Brett, Peter V., The Great Bazaar LS
Brett, Peter V, The Desert Spear MW + LS
Britain, Kirsten, High King's Tomb RT
Britain, Kirsten, Blackveil RT
Brooke, Keith, The Accord LS
Brooks, Terry, Dark Wraith of Shannara RT
Brooks, Terry, The Elves of Cintra RT
Brown, Eric, Kethani RT
Brown, John, Servant of a Dark God RT + CH
Bryant, Shane, Worst Nightmares DC
Buchanan, Col, Farlander LS
Bujold, Lois, The Sharing Knife 1 RT
Bujold, Lois, The Sharing Knife: Passage 3 + Bonus Q/A RT
Bullington, Jesse, The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart RT
Bullington, Jesse, The Enterprise of Death RT + LS
Bunn, Christopher, The Hawk and His Boy LS
Buroker, Lindsay, Encrypted LS
Butcher, Jim, Changes MW
Butcher, Jim, First Lord's Fury MW
Butcher, Jim, The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle RT
Butler, Robert Olen, Severance:Stories LS
Byatt, A.S., The Children's Book LS
Bynum, Laura, Veracity RT
Cain, Chelsea, Heartsick RT
Cameron, Christian, Tyrant: King of the Bosporus LS
Canavan, Trudi, The Magician's Apprentice DC
Campbell, Alan, God of Clocks RT
Campbell, Alan, Iron Angel RT
Campbel, Alan, Lye Street RT
Campbell, Alan, Scar Night RT
Campbell, Alan, Sea of Ghosts RT + LS
Campbell, Ramsey, The Grin of the Dark RT
Card, Orson Scott, The Lost Gate RT
Carey, Jacqueline, Kushiel's Justice RT
Carey, Jacqueline, Kushiel's Mercy + Bonus Q/A RT
Carey, Jacqueline, Naamah's Kiss LS
Carey, Jacqueline, Naamah's Curse LS
Carey, Mike, Dead Men's Boots RT
Carey, Mike, Thicker Than Water RT
Carey, Mike, The Naming of the Beast RT
Carey, Mike, Vicious Circle with bonus Q/A RT
Carey, Mike, The Devil You Know RT
Carroll, Jonathan, The Ghost In Love FF
Carroll Lewis, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland CH
Carlson, Jeff, Plague War FF
Cashore, Kristin, Graceling CH
Castro, Adam-Troy, Emissaries From the Dead RT
Castro, Adam-Troy, Emissaries From the Dead FF
Chabon, Michael, Gentlemen of the Road RT
Chadbourn, Mark, Age of Misrule 1: World's End CH
Chadbourn, Mark, Age of Misrule 2: Darkest Hour CH
Chadbourn, Mark, Lord of Silence MW
Chadbourn, Mark, The Silver Skull CH
Charlton, Blake, Spellwright RT
Christopher, Nicholas, The Bestiary RT
Clegg, Douglas, Neverland, CH
Cochran, Jeff ed, Alternative Coordinates #1 LS
Cochran, Jeff ed, Alternative Coordinates #2 LS
Cobley, Michael, The Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire) LS
Coe, David, The Horsemen Gambit CH
Coe, David, The Dark Eyes' War CH
Connington, John, Field of Fire LS
Connington, John, Skywatcher LS
Connolly, John, The Gates MW
Connolly, John, The Lovers MW
Connolly, John, The Whisperers MW
Conviser, Josh, Echelon RT
Conviser, Josh, Empire RT
Cook, Glenn, Surrender to the Will of Night RT
Cordell, Bruce R., Plague of Spells DC
Cordell, Bruce R, City of Torment DC
Cordell, Bruce R, Key of Stars DC
Corin, Joshua, Nuclear Winter Wonderland MW
Cook, Glen, Lord of the Silent Kingdom RT
Cronin, Justin, The Passage, LS
Czerneda, Julie, StMartin Rob ed., Ages of Wonder LS + Bogdan Lascu
Dakin, Glenn, Candle Man CH
Dalglish, David, A Dance of Cloaks MW
D'Amato, Brian, In the Courts of the Sun LS
Danieels, Rowena Cory, King's Bastard CH
Dantec, Maurice G., Cosmos Incorporated LS
Dashner, James, Maze Runner CH
David, Peter, Tigerheart with Bonus Q/A RT
Davidson, Andrew, The Gargoyle LS
Davidson, Rjurik, The Library of Forgotten Books LS
Davys, Tim, Amberville RT
DeAngelis, Camille, Mary Modern RT
Deas, Stephen, The Adamantine Palace RT
Deas, Stephen, The King of the Crags LS
Deas, Stephen, The Thief-Taker's Apprentice LS
De Santis, Pablo, Voltaire's Calligrapher LS
Del Toro, Guillermo and Hogan, Chuck, The Strain FF
Dietrich, William, Napoleon's Pyramids LS
Dietrich, William, The Rosetta Key LS
Dietrich, William, The Dakota Cipher + bonus essay LS
Dietrich, William, The Barbary Pirates LS
DiLouie, Craig, Tooth and Nail MW
Dini, Paul and others, Madame Mirage RT
Doctorow, Cory, Little Brother RT
Doctorow, Cory, Little Brother FF
Donoghue, Emma, Room LS
Doub, David, Dusk: A Graphic Novel MW
Doubinsky, Sébastien, The Babylonian Trilogy LS
Dozois, Gardner, Strahan, Jonathan, The New Space Opera 2 LS
Dunlap, Susanne, Anastasia's Secret CH
Durham, David Anthony, Acacia RT
Durham, David Anthony, The Other Lands RT + LS
Easton, Michael and Shy, Christopher, Soul Stealer: Blood and Rain RT
Easton, Michael and Shy, Christopher, Soul Stealer RT
Edelman, David Louis, MultiReal (The Jump 225 Trilogy, Book 2) LS
Edelman, David Louis, Geosynchron (The Jump 225 Trilogy, Book 3) LS
Elliot, Kate, Shadow Gate RT
Elliot, Kate, Traitors' Gate MW
Elliot, Kate, Cold Magic LS
Elliot, Will, The Pilo Family Circus LS
Ellis, Warren, Crooked Little Vein RT
Enge, James, Blood of Ambrose, RT
Enge, James, The Crooked Way CH
Erdelac, Ed, Merkabah Rider MW
Erikson, Steven, Bauchelain and Korbal, DC
Erikson, Steven, Reaper's Gale RT
Esslemont, Ian Cameron, Knight of Knives RT
Estep, Jennifer, Spider's Bite MW
Estep, Jennifer, Web of Lies MW
Evans, Chris (US), Iron Elves: A Darkness Forged in Fire RT
Evans, Chris (US), Iron Elves: The Light of Burning Shadows RT
Evans, Christopher (UK), Omega LS
Evenson, Brian, Last Days RT
Fallon, Jennifer, The Gods of Amyrantha (MW+LS)
Fallon, Jennifer, The Immortal Prince (LS)
Fallon, Jennifer, The Palace of Impossible Dreams (MW+LS)
Farland, David, Worldbinder RT
Farnsworth, Christopher, Blood Oath RT
Farnsworth, Richard, Succumbing to Gravity MW
Farrell, S.L., A Magic of Nightfall: A Novel of the Nessantico Cycle LS
Farrell, S.L., A Magic of Dawn: A Novel of the Nessantico Cycle LS
Fenn, Jaine, Consorts of Heaven LS
Fenn, Jaine, Principles of Angels LS
Ferrari, Mark, The Book of Joby RT
Finlay, C.C., The Patriot Witch CH
Fisher, Catherine, Incarceron CH
Flynn Michael, The January Dancer LS
Flynn, Michael, Up Jim River LS
Ford, Jeffrey, The Drowned Life JB
Foster, Alan Dean, Terminator Salvation: Movie Novelization FF
Fox, Daniel, Dragon in Chains RT
Fox, Daniel, Jade Man's Skin RT
Fox, Daniel, Hidden Cities RT
Frei, Max, The Stranger (The Labyrinths of Echo Book 1) RT
Freeman, Pamela, Deep Water (The Castings Trilogy) LS
Freeman, Pamela, Blood Ties RT
Friedman, C.S., Wings of Wrath: Book Two of the Magister Trilogy LS
Frost, Gregory, Lord Tophet: A Shadowbridge Novel RT
Frost, Gregory, Shadowbridge RT
Frost, Toby, Space Captain Smith LS
Gaiman, Neil, The Graveyard Book CH
Gaiman, Neil, The Graveyard Book FF
Gaiman, Neil, The Graveyard Book - revised after the Hugo 09 FF
Galgut, Damon, In a Strange Room, LS
Gee, Emily, The Laurentine Spy LS
Gee, Emily, The Sentinel Mage LS
Gemmell David and Stella, The Troy Trilogy LS + MW
Gevers, Nick, Other Earths LS
Gibson, Gary, Stealing Light RT
Gibson, Gary, The Dakota Merrick Series: Stealing Light and Nova War LS
Gibson, Gary, Empire of Light LS
Gilman, Felix, Gears of the City RT
Gilman, Felix, Thunderer RT
Gilman, Felix, The Half Made World LS
Golden, Christopher and Lebbon, Tim, The Map of Moments RT
Golden, Christopher and Lebbon, Tim, Mind the Gap RT
Golden, Christopher, Poison Ink RT
Golden, Christopehr, The Borderkind RT
Golden, Christopher, The Myth Hunter RT
Golden, Christopher, The New Dead RT
Goodkind, Terry, Confessor DC
Goodman, Alison, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn CH
Gout, Leopoldo Ghost Radio: A Novel LS
Gracq, Julien, The Opposing Shore LS
Graham, Ian, Monument RT
Graham, Jo, Black Ships RT
Graham, Jo, Stealing Fire LS
Greenberger, Robert, The Essential Batman Encyclopedia RT
Greenwood, Ed, The Annotated Elminster Collector's Edition DC
Greenwood, Ed, Elminster Must Die DC
Gregory, Darryl, The Devil's Alphabet MW
Griffin, Kate, A Madness of Angels LS
Grimwood, Jon Courtenay, End of the World Blues RT
Grimwood, Jon Courtenay, The Fallen Blade RT + LS
Groff, Laureen, The Monsters of Templeton RT
Grossman, Austin, Soon I Will Be Invincible, RT
Gunn, David, Death's Head RT
Gunn, David, Death's Head: Day of the Damned LS
Gunn, David, Death's Head: Maximum Offense RT
Gustainis, Justin, Black Magic Woman RT
Haarsma, PJ, "The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1" CH
Hague, Michael, In the Small RT
Hall, Sarah, Daughters of the North aka The Carhullan Army LS
Hall, Sarah, How to Paint a Dead Man LS
Hale Shannon and Dean, Calamity Jack, CH
Haley, Cameron, Mob Rules MW
Hamerton, Greg, Riddler's Gift, The: First Tale of the Lifesong LS
Hamerton, Greg, Second Sight: Second Tale of the Lifesong LS
Hamilton, Peter F., The Temporal Void (Void Trilogy, Book 2) LS
Hamilton, Peter F., The Dreaming Void RT
Hammond, Warren, Kop RT
Hanover, MLM, Unclean Spirits RT
Harkaway, Nick, The Gone-Away World LS
Harlan, Thomas, Land of the Dead LS
Harlan, Thomas, House of Reeds/Wasteland of Flint LS
Harms, William and others, Impaler RT
Hartnett, Sonia, The Ghost's Child CH
Harrison, Kim, This Witch For Hire Omnibus RT
Harrison, Michael J., Nova Swing RT
Harrison, Michelle, 13 Treasure CH
Hawks, John Twelve, The Dark River RT
Hawks, John Twelve, The Golden City RT + MW
Hayward, Brett, Filaria LS
Healey, Karen, Guardian of the Dead CH
Heaney, William aka Joyce, Graham, Memoirs of a Master Forger LS
Hearn, Lian, Heaven's Net is Wide RT
Heermann, Travis, Heart of the Ronin LS
Hicks, Michael R., In Her Name LS
Hill, Joe, Horns RT
Hines, Jim, The Stepsister Scheme RT
Hobb, Robin, Renegade's Magic RT
Hobb, Robin, Dragon Keeper RT
Hodder, Mark, The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack LS
Hodder, Mark, The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man LS
Hoffman, Paul, The Left Hand of God RT + LS
Hogan, James, Migration LS
Holt, Terrence, In The Valley of the Kings LS
Hooper, Kay, Blood Dreams RT
Hoyt, Sarah, Heart of Light RT
Hubbard, Susan, The Society of S, RT
Hubbard, Susan, The Year of Disappearances + Bonus Q/A RT
Hughes, Matthew, Majestrum RT
Hughes, Matthew, Template FF
Hughes, Rhys, The Crystal Cosmos LS
Humphreys, C.C., Vlad The Last Confession LS
Hunt, Stephen, The Kingdom Beyond the Waves + Bonus Q/A RT
Hunt, Stephen The Court of the Air RT
Hunt, Stephen Secrets of the Fire Sea LS
Hurley, Kameron, God's War MW
Huso, Anthony, The Last Page LS
Hussey, Bill, The Absence RT
Hussey, Bill, Through a Glass Darkly, RT
Huston, Charlie, First Three Joe Pitt Cases RT
Huston, Charlie, My Dead Body RT
Huston, Charlie, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death RT
Huston, Charlie, Shotgun Rule RT
Huston, Charlie, Sleepless RT
Hutchins, J.C., Seventh Son:Descent RT
Iles, Greg, True Evil RT
Ishiguro, Kazuo, Nocturnes LS
Jarpe, Matthew, Radio Freefall, RT
Jeschonek, Robert, Mad Scientist Meets Cannibal FF
Jemisin, NK, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms RT
Jemisin, NK, The Broken Kingdoms LS
Jones, Gwyneth, Spirit: The Princess of Bois Dormant LS
Jones, Howard, Andrew, The Desert of Souls RT
Jones, Jaida and Bennett Danielle, Havemercy RT + LS
Jones, Jaida and Bennett Danielle, Shadow Magic LS
Jones, Jaida and Bennett Danielle, Dragon Soul LS
Jordan, Robert and Sanderson Brandon, Towers of Midnight DC
Judson, Theodore, The Martian General's Daughter LS
Kadrey, Richard, Sandman Slim, FF
Kadrey, Richard, Kill the Dead, RT
Karr, John, Rhone MW
Kawabata, Yasunari, Timeless Masterpieces: the 3 Nobel Novels and a short story LS
Kay, Guy Gavriel, Under Heaven LS + CH
Kasai, Kirsten Imani, Ice Song+ Author's Note LS
Kearney, Paul, The Ten Thousand LS
Kearney, Paul, Corvus LS
Keck, David, In the Eye of Heaven RT
Keck, David, In a Time of Treason RT
Kemp, Paul, Shadowrealm DC
Kemp, Paul, Shadowstorm DC
Kent, Jasper, Twelve RT
Kent, Jasper, Thirteen Years Later RT + LS
Keyes, Greg, The Born Queen RT
Kiernan, Caitlin, Daughter of Hounds RT
Kilborn, Jack, Afraid RT
Killeen, Andrew, The Father of Locks LS
King, Stephen, Duma Key RT
Kirkpatrick, Russell, Across the Face of the World RT
Kirov, Erica, The Pyramid of Souls CH
Kline, Otis Adalbert, The Swordsman of Mars FF
Kornher-Stace, Nicole, Desideria LS
Kornher-Stace, Nicole, To Seek Her Fortune (story from anthology) LS
Koontz, Dean, In Odd We Trust (Odd Thomas Novel, Book 5) RT
Koontz, Dean, Odd Hours (Odd Thomas Novel, Book 4) RT
Koontz, Dean, The Good Guy RT
Kowal, Mary Robinette, Shades of Milk and Honey LS
Kress, Nancy, Steal Across the Sky LS
Kristof, Agota, The Notebook LS
Kristian, Giles, Raven: Blood Eye LS
Kristian, Giles, Raven: Sons of Thunder LS
Lake, Jay Mainspring + Bonus Q/A RT
Lake, Jay, Escapement RT
Lalumiere, Claude, Objects of Worship LS
Lamplighter, L Jagi, Prospero Lost LS
Langan, Sarah, The Missing RT
Langan, Sarah, Audrey's Door RT
Lappe, Anthony and Goldman, Dan, Shooting War RT
Lasky, Kathrin, Daughters of the Sea: Hannah CH
Lebbon, Tim, Dusk and Dawn RT
Lebbon, Tim, Fallen + Bonus Q/A RT
Leicht, Stina, Of Blood and Honey RT
Lewis, J.S., Invasion:CHAOS 1 CH
Ligotti, Thomas, Nightmare Factory Volume 2, RT
Lin, Grace, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon CH
Lint, Charles de, The Mystery of Grace RT
Lo, Malinda, Ash FF
Lovegrove, James, The Age of Ra LS
Lovegrove, James, The Age of Zeus LS
Lukas, Michael David, The Oracle of Stamboul LS
Lumley, Brain, Necroscope:The Touch RT
Lynch, Scott, Red Seas Under Red Skies RT
Maberry, Jonathan, Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel RT
Maberry, Jonathan, The Dragon Factory: A Joe Ledger Novel RT
MacLeod, Ken, The Restoration Game LS
Mace, James, Soldier of Rome (LS)
Mace, James, Soldier of Rome 2 - The Sacrovir Revolt (LS)
Magnum, Lisa, The Hourglass Door CH
Magnum, Lisa, The Golden Spiral CH
Mann, George, Ghosts of Manhattan LS
Mann, George, The Affinity Bridge LS
Mann, George, The Osiris Ritual LS
Mann, George, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume 3 LS
Mann, George, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy RT
Mantchev, Lisa, Eyes Like Stars CH
Mantel, Hilary, Wolf Hall LS
Marco, John, Starfinder CH
Margolin, Philip, Supreme Justice MW
Marino, JC, Dante's Journey MW
Marmell, Ari, Agents of Artifice DC
Marmell, Ari, The Conqueror's Shadow RT
Marmell, Ari, The Warlord's Legacy RT
Marquitz, Tim, Armageddon Bound MW
Marquitz, Tim, Sepulchral Earth MW
Marshall, Michael, The Intruders RT
Martin, Gail, The Summoner RT
Martin GRRM, Dozois ed, G, Warriors RT
Martin GRRM, Dozois, G, Abraham, D , Hunter's Run RT
Marusek, David, Mind Over Ship LS
Mass, Wendy, 11 Birthdays CH
Masello, Robert, Blood and Ice RT
Massey, Misty, Mad Kestrel RT
Matheson, Richard, I Am Legend RT
Mathias, M.R., The Sword and the Dragon LS
Mathias, M.R., The Royal Dragoneers LS
Maxey, James, Bitterwood RT
Maxey, James, Dragonseed: A Novel of the Dragon Age CH
McAuley, Paul J., The Quiet War LS
McAuley, Paul J., Gardens of the Sun LS
McDermott, JM, Never Knew Another RT
McDevitt, Jack, The Devil's Eye: An Alex Benedict Novel LS
McDevitt, Jack, Time Travelers Never Die LS
McDonald, Ian, Brasyl JB
Meaney, John, Absorption, LS
Meaney, John, Black Blood (Tristopolis, Book 2) RT
Meaney, John, Bone Song RT
Mellon, Mark, Escape From Byzantium LS + MW
Mellon, Mark, Napoleon Concerto LS
Meltzer, Brad, The Book of Lies FF
Merciel, Liane, The River King's Road RT
Micklem, Sarah, Firethorn/Wildfire LS
Mieville, China, The City and the City FF
Mieville, China, The City and the City LS
Miller, Karen, Hammer of God CH
Miller, Karen, The Innocent Mage RT
Ming, Wu, Manituana LS
Miranda, Mei Lin, Lovers and Beloveds LS
Mitchell, David, Cloud Atlas LS
Mitchell, David, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet LS
Melko, Paul, Singularity's Ring RT
Melko, Paul, The Walls of the Universe LS
Meyer, Stephanie, The Host RT
Michael, Jacob Asher, Buddha's Thunderbolt MW
Modesitt, L.E., Imager: The First Book of the Imager Portfolio RT
Modesitt, L.E., Imager's Challenge (#2) LS
Modesitt, L.E., Imager's Intrigue (#3) LS
Monette, Sarah, Bear, E, A Companion to Wolves RT
Monette, Sarah, Corambis LS
Monette, Sarah, The Mirador RT
Moody, David, Hater RT
Moody, David, Dog Blood MW
Moore Leah, Reppion John, The Trial of Sherlock Holmes #1 FF
Moore, Steve and others, Hercules RT
Morgan, Richard K.,The Steel Remains RT + LS
Morgan, Richard K., Thirteen RT
Morton, Kate, The Distant Hours LS
Mortimus, Clay, The Purloined Boy CH
Mostert, Natasha, Keeper of Light and Dust RT
Mostert, Natasha, Season of the Witch RT
Murphy, C.E., Queen's Bastard RT
Nayeri, Dina and Daniel, Another Pan CH
Neff, Henry H., The Second Siege CH
Ness, Patrick, The Knife of Never Letting Go + bonus Q/A FF
Neumeier, Rachel, Lord of the Changing Winds CH
Neville, Stuart, The Ghosts of Belfast MW
Newton, Mark Charan, Nights of Villjamur LS
Newton, Mark, City of Ruin LS
Newton, Todd, The Ninth Avatar CH
Nielson, Sheila, The Forbidden Sea CH
Niffenegger, Audrey, Her Fearful Symmetry LS
North, Pearl, Libyrinth CH
Northern, Chris, The Last King's Amulet LS
Novik, Naomi, Tongues of Serpents CH
Nylund, Eric, Mortal Coils RT
O'Connell, Jack, The Ressurectionist RT
Oppegaard, David, The Suicide Collectors RT
Orringer, Julie, The Invisible Bridge LS
Overstreet, Jeffrey, Auralia's Colors RT
Oyeyemi, Helen, White is for Witching LS
Packard, Jake, The Manhattan Prophet LS
Palahniuk, Chuck, Snuff RT
Palmer, Dexter, The Dream of Perpetual Motion RT
Palmer, Philip, Debatable Spaces RT
Palmer, Philip, Red Claw LS
Parker, KJ, Blue & Gold LS
Parker, KJ, Purple & Black LS
Parker, KJ, The Folding Knife LS
Parker, KJ, The Hammer LS
Parker, KJ, A Rich Full Week (story from anthology) LS
Parker, KJ, The Scavenger Trilogy LS
Parker, KJ, Three Short Stories LS
Paschen, Elise ed, Poetry Speaks Who I Am CH
Patterson, James, Dangerous Days of Daniel X RT
Pauley, Kimberley, Still Sucks To Be Me CH
Pears, Iain, Stone's Fall LS
Pearce, Jackson, Sisters Red CH
Pekearo, Nicholas, Wolfman RT
Peters, SM, Whitechapel Gods RT
Peterson, Andrew, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness CH
Pevel, Pierre, The Cardinal's Blades RT
Phillips, Holly, The Engine's Child LS
Pierres, Marianne de, Chaos Space (Sentients of Orion) LS
Pierres, Marianne de, Mirror Space (Sentients of Orion) LS
Pike, Aprilynne, Wings CH
Pitts, JA, Black Blade Blues MW
Poblocki, Dan, The Stone Child + Bonus Q/A MW
Pollard, Tony, The Minutes of the Lazarus Club LS
Pratchett, Terry, Nation CH
Pratt, TA, Blood Engines RT
Pratt, T.A, Poison Sleep RT
Preble, Joy, Dreaming Anastasia CH
Preston Douglas, Impact MW
Preston Douglas and Child, Lincoln, Cemetery Dance MW
Preston Douglas and Child, Lincoln, Fever Dream MW
Priest, Cherie, Boneshaker RT
Priest, Cherie, Clementine RT
Priest, Cherie, Dreadnought RT
Quidt, Jeremy De, The Toymaker CH
Rabuzzi, Daniel, The Choir Boats LS
Raedeke, Christy, The Daykeeper's Grimoire 1 CH
Raicht, Mike and Smith, Brian, The Stuff of Legend Book 1 CH
Rector, John, The Cold Kiss MW
Reeve, Laura E., Peacekeeper: A Major Ariane Kedros Novel LS
Redick, Robert V.S., Red Wolf Conspiracy RT
Redick, Robert V.S., The Rats and The Ruling Sea RT
Redmond, KE, What Time Forgets LS
Remic, Andy, Kell's Legend MW
Remic, Andy, War Machine RT
Remic, Andy, Soul Stealers MW
Resnick, Mike, Stalking the Vampire RT
Reynolds, Alastair, House of Suns (Gollancz) LS
Reynolds, Alastair, Terminal World LS
Rhodes, Natasha, Dante's Girl RT
Ritter, Lukas, Monster Slayers CH
Roberts, Adam, Yellow Blue Tibia: A Novel LS
Roberts, Adam, New Model Army LS
Roberson, Chris, Dragon's Nine Sons RT
Roberson, Chris, End of the Century FF
Roberson, Chris, Set the Seas on Fire RT
Roberson, Jennifer, Deepwood RT
Robins, Lane, Maledicte RT
Rollins, James, The Doomsday Key MW
Rollins, James, The Judas Strain RT
Rollins, James, The Last Oracle (Sigma Force, Book 5) Bonus Q/a RT
Rollins, James, Subterranean MW
Rose, M.J., The Memorist LS
Rothfuss, Patrick, The Name of the Wind RT
Rothfuss, Patrick, The Wise Man's Fear RT
Rothfuss, Patrick, The Adventures of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle CH
Rowley, Christopher, Pleasure Model RT
Ruckley, Brian, Bloodheir (The Godless World, Book 2) LS
Ruckley, Brian, Fall of Thanes LS
Ruckley, Brian, Winterbirth RT
Russell, D.L. Hell is an Awfully Big City MW
Rutheford, Alex, Raiders from the North MW
Rutkosk, Marie, The Celestial Globe CH
Ryan, Carrie, The Forest of Hands and Teeth RT
Saintcrow, Lilith, Night Shift (Jill Kismet, Book 1) RT
Salvatore, RA, The Orc King DC
Salvatore, R.A. and Geno, The Stowaway DC
Salvatore, R.A. and Geno, The Shadowmask CH
Sanderson, Brandon, Warbreaker MW
Sanderson, Brandon, The Well of Ascension RT
Sapkowski, Andrzej, The Last Wish RT
Sarkar, Sam and others, Caliber RT
Savage, Scott J, Water Keep CH
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The Holy Bible – Old Testament
Deuteronomy Chapter 29
1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
16 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
17 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
19 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

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FSFE Newsletter - July 2009
This month has been full of activity, but one bit of news has cast a shadow over it all. We have learned of the death of Richard Rothwell, who was a prominent and respected advocate for Free Software in education and a Fellow. We are saying farewell to him below.
Major activities of the month were: the support of our German Chapter to OpenRuhr initiative, the participation to a Conference hosted by the WIPO, an interesting Fellowship meeting in Berlin, our presence to RMLL in Nantes, and the publishing of our statement about the latest developments in the EU browser case.
Table of Contents
- Fresh air at WIPO, but old habits die hard
- A farewell to Richard Rothwell
- FSFE supports OpenRuhr
- FSFE booth at RMLL Nantes, France, 07-11 July
- Fellowship Meeting in Berlin, 09 July
- The Fellowship interviews: Smári McCarthy In the spotlight
- EU browser case: FSFE says details of settlement will be crucial It happened in the past
- FSFE supporting European Commission in their case against Microsoft Upcoming events
- 4th Froscon, St. Augustin, Germany, 22-23 August
Fresh air at WIPO, but old habits die hard
On the 13 and 14 July, in Geneva, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) hosted the Conference "Intellectual Property and Public Policy Issues" with the aim of reflecting on the consequences of the policies that WIPO promotes. Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's president, attended the event and wrote an extensive report: "Fresh air at WIPO, but old habits die hard". He highlights that the event in itself was a very positive step for the organisation, which is starting to pay attention to the real-world impact of the policies it develops. Still, some troubling old mistakes remain.
A farewell to Richard Rothwell
It is with sorrow that we pay our respect to Richard Rothwell. A Fellow, a brilliant activist and a key figure in the UK Free Software community. On 17 July, Richard passed away, tearing a hole in the network of the Free Software movement which will be difficult to fill. We want to remember him here, and to offer our condolences to Richard's family and closest friends.
FSFE supports OpenRuhr
Our German chapter has decided to support the OpenRuhr initiative. During 2010 in the Ruhr area the 'cultural cities' will set facilities and plan events which will promote Free Software as a cultural technique for creative people in their works. Our German chapter aims at developing informative material to portray Free Software as a cultural technique.
FSFE booth at RMLL Nantes, France, 07-11 July
Rainer Kersten and Michel Roche manned our booth at the 10th "Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libres" (RMLL), which took place in Nantes. RMLL is the most important Free Software event in France with some 5000 visitors. Rainer and Michel had a very busy four days explaining the basics of Free Software, and telling a large number of people about FSFE's work.
Fellowship Meeting in Berlin, 09 July
The Berlin Fellowship group met on 9 July at the Newthinking Store, at Tucholskystrasse 48. On the meeting's agenda was an interesting debate with representatives of youth organisations of various political parties. Members of the Junge Union Brandenburg, Jungen Liberalen Brandenburg, Grüne Jugend, Piratenpartei, and SDS.Berlin presented their views about Free Software issues and answered questions from other participants. Lena Simon recorded the event, which we will publish shortly on our Fellowship platform.
The Fellowship interviews: Smári McCarthy
This month, Stian Rødven Eide interviewed Smári McCarthy: a thoughtful anarchist and practical chaos technician with a deep interest in Free Software and democracy. The interview addressed various aspects of Smári's life from his work at the Fab Lab, to the Icelandic Society for Digital Freedoms, concluding with his views on a "crowdsourced democracy".
In the spotlight
EU browser case: FSFE says details of settlement will be crucial
In 2007, Opera Software presented the European Commission with a formal complaint regarding Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer (IE) to its operating systems. We decided to follow the development of this issue and we officially offered our help as interested third party to the Directorate General for Competition.
On January 2009, the European Commission DG Competition issued a statement of objections against Microsoft which recently led the company to consider a settlement. While the offer of a settlement is an important achievement for the European Commission, we believe that it is the details which will make all the difference. A settlement that simply looks good will not be enough. We need to be sure that any agreement between Microsoft and the Commission really puts Free Software on an equal footing with proprietary competitors, and allows for free competition in the web browser market.
Our press release, which outlines some details of the settlement that should be carefully considered, is available here:
Relevant links:
It happened in the past
FSFE supporting European Commission in their case against Microsoft
Five years ago, Microsoft appealed against the European Commission antitrust decision. The Directorate General for Competition called for cooperation upon FSFE and Samba. A call that we did not miss: on 27 July 2004 we had already participated to the preliminary hearing of the appeal in Luxembourg. That was the beginning of what would become the greatest success for FSFE and for Free Software in the legal field in 2007, when Microsoft was ordered by the European Court of First Instance to share interoperability information with the Samba team.
Upcoming events
4th Froscon, St. Augustin, Germany, 22-23 August
We will be present with a booth at the 4th Froscon in St. Augustin, Germany. The conference is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, with the help of Fachschaft of Computer Science, LUUSA and FrOSCon e.V. For coordination we will use the booth@ mailing list and the Fellowship Wiki.
You can find a list of all FSFE newsletters on
https://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.htmlYou can join the Fellowship and find how to support us on
https://my.fsfe.org/donate https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.htmlYou can order our merchandise at


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Exstrophy of the bladder is a complex combination of disorders that occurs during fetal development. The disorder usually involves many systems in the body, including the urinary tract, skeletal muscles and bones, and the digestive system. Bladder exstrophy means that the bladder is essentially inside out and exposed on the outside of the abdomen. Because the bladder and other structures are exposed to the outside of the body, urine constantly trickles onto the skin causing local irritation.
Epispadias is usually seen with exstrophy of the bladder. Epispadias occurs when the urethral opening, which is the hollow tube that drains urine from the bladder to the outside of the body, is in an abnormal location. In males, the opening is usually on the topside of the penis and not the tip. This is different than hypospadias where the opening is usually underneath the penis. In girls, the urethral opening may be positioned further up the urethra and may be bigger and longer than normal. Often in girls, the opening extends to the bladder.
According to the American Urologic Association, this is a rare disorder that occurs in about one in every 30,000 births. It is more common in males and varies in severity. The cause of exstrophy of the bladder is unknown. Although some reports show a clustering of exstrophy of the bladder in families, suggesting an inherited factor. However, the chance for parents to have another child with exstrophy of the bladder is small (1 percent or less). The disorder may occur in varying degrees from mild to severe. In many cases, exstrophy of the bladder is associated with the following:
Widened pubic bones
Outwardly rotated legs and feet
Triangle-shaped defect in the abdomen and visibility of the membrane of the bladder that is usually bright pink
Abnormally-shaped abdominal muscles
Displacement of the umbilicus (belly button), usually above the defect
Umbilical hernia may be present (section of intestine protrudes through a weakness in the abdominal muscles)
Short, small penis with urethral opening along top of penis (epispadias)
Narrow vaginal opening, wide labia, and short urethra
Exstrophy of the bladder can usually be diagnosed by fetal ultrasound before an infant is born. After the infant is born, exstrophy can be determined by physical examination. Your child's doctor may order other diagnostic procedures.
Specific treatment for exstrophy of the bladder and epispadias will be determined by your child's doctor based on:
Your child's age, overall health, and medical history
The extent of the disorder
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After a diagnosis is made, your child will be referred to a surgeon for surgical repair. There are usually three stages to the surgical repair that start when your child is as young as 48 hours old. The first stage involves internalization of the bladder and closing the abdomen. The second stage may be done as early as 6 months of age and involves repairing the epispadias and other genital abnormalities. The final surgery is done at around age 4 to 5, when the bladder is large enough and the child is psychologically ready to be dry. This final surgery involves reconstruction of the urinary tract including the bladder, and other structures of the urinary tract.


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Builders risk insurance is effectively a form of property insurance that covers the period while the property is still under construction. It's possible for the property owners to take out such a policy, though more commonly it'll be a policy they insist the contractors take out.
What does a builders risk policy cover?
The key areas of coverage are damage caused by events such as fire and hail storms. You'll also normally be covered for theft, vandalism (though not by your employees), and damage caused by vehicles or aircraft hitting the building. To make sure coverage levels are adequate, policies are often set at a fixed percentage of the total construction budget. You'll need to check how long the policy runs as it typically won't allow repeated extensions of the construction timeline.
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One of the most important events in the national gun violence debate will take place Tuesday — in the snows of Chicago, a thousand miles from Newtown, Conn., or Washington, D.C.
That's where Democratic voters will choose their nominee to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. Because the district is so heavily Democratic, the winner will almost certainly be sworn in at the Capitol following the April general election.
Chicago is also where the billionaire mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, is flexing the muscle of his gun control superPAC by spending, as of late Friday, $2.2 million on the race. For those keeping score, that's four times what the top five candidates' campaigns have spent — combined. Most of that money has gone to attack former Rep. Debbie Halvorson, with the rest building up Robin Kelly, the former administrator of Cook County and a former state representative.
Because Halvorson is the only white candidate in the primary, originally facing nearly two dozen African-Americans, there was a reasonable chance she would win a slim plurality with the black vote splintering so many different ways.
In fact, polls early on showed her leading — but that was before Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC unleashed a pair of TV ads and a series of mailers against her and her positions on guns. Now, days ahead of the vote, Kelly appears to be in the lead, with a pair of other top contenders having dropped out.
Bloomberg has been quite open about his desire to push stronger gun laws in the country, particularly after the December elementary school massacre in Newtown. Asked this week about involving himself in the Illinois race, he answered: "I'm part of the public and I happen to have some money. That's what I am trying to do with my money — trying to get us some sensible gun laws."
Bloomberg is worth some $22 billion. Meaning that if he's serious about pursuing this cause, he by himself could serve as an enormous counterweight against what until now has been the only major player on the issue — the National Rifle Association.
In the 2012 elections, for example, the NRA spent a total of $16 million on independent expenditures in federal races, according to Federal Election Commission records. Of that, $12 million went to attack President Obama, and less than $1 million was sprinkled across 82 House races.
Compare that to the $8 million that Bloomberg spent in just five House races, several months before Newtown. That money helped defeat two pro-gun representatives, and made competitive races out of a couple of others.
Perhaps most intriguing in Bloomberg's campaign against Halvorson has been how the ads have taken the NRA head-on (Narrator: "No wonder Halvorson received an A+ rating from the NRA, the special interest lobby against effective background checks ..."). This turns what has historically been an asset into a liability, perhaps a fertile strategy, given recent polling that shows falling approval ratings for the gun rights group.
If Halvorson loses Tuesday, and particularly if she loses convincingly, look for congressional candidates in other districts to start eyeing Bloomberg and his superPAC just as nervously as they've grown accustomed to eyeing the NRA.
S.V. Dáte is the congressional editor on NPR's Washington Desk.
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Will Crushing Student Loans and Worthless College Degrees Politicize the Millennial Generation?
The existing social and financial order is crumbling because it is unsustainable on multiple levels. The central state is not the Millennials' friend, it is their oppressor.
No generation of young people is ever politicized by hunger in distant lands or issues of the elderly. It's no rap on youth that self-interest defines what issues have the potential to radically transform their political consciousness; the transformative cause must reveal the system is broken for them and that it intends on sacrificing their generation to uphold the Status Quo.
Podcast with Mike Swanson of WallStreetWindow.com on student loan debt and the Nearly Free University: Charles Hugh Smith On the Forces of Centralization and Soaring Education Costs. I always enjoy discussing issues with Mike, a polymath with a wide range of interests and experiences.
Things are falling apart--that is obvious. But why are they falling apart? The reasons are complex and global. Our economy and society have structural problems that cannot be solved by adding debt to debt. We are becoming poorer, not just from financial over-reach, but from fundamental forces that are not easy to identify or understand. We will cover the five core reasons why things are falling apart:
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Complex systems weakened by diminishing returns collapse under their own weight and are replaced by systems that are simpler, faster and affordable. If we cling to the old ways, our system will disintegrate. If we want sustainable prosperity rather than collapse, we must embrace a new model that is Decentralized, Adaptive, Transparent and Accountable (DATA).
We are not powerless. Not accepting responsibility and being powerless are two sides of the same coin: once we accept responsibility, we become powerful.
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