Within the Sanctuary of Wings A Memoir by Lady Trent Marie Brennan Tor Books Release Date: April 25, 2017 ISBN 978-0-7653-7765-4 What a lovely way to end a wonderful fantasy series! Since 2013, with the publication of Lady Trent’s first installment of her memoirs in A Natural History of Dragons, […]
The Summer Dragon – First Book of the Evertide Todd Lockwood DAW Books Release Date: May 3, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7564-0833-6 I first noticed Todd Lockwood as the artist who created such amazing illustrations for Marie Brennan’s “A Natural History of Dragons” series. The cover artwork alone instantly established the sense […]
In the Labyrinth of Drakes: A Memoir by Lady Trent Book 4 of “A Natural History of Dragons” series Marie Brennan Tor Books Release Date: April 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-7763-0 Oh, I adore Lady Trent! She’s exactly what I want to be when I grow up. (Never mind that I […]
The Trials Linda Nagata Saga Press Release Date: August 18, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4814-4095-0 NOTE: This review, by necessity, contains spoilers for the first book in the series, The Red: First Light. The Trials is the second book of Linda Nagata’s marvelous military sci-fi series, “The Red Trilogy”. It picks up […]
The Red: First Light Linda Nagata Saga Press Release Date: June 30, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4814-4657-0 I keep saying that military science fiction just isn’t my thing. But then I read books such as Gemini Cell by Myke Cole or The Human Division by John Scalzi, and I wonder what would […]
Voyage of the Basilisk – A Memoir by Lady Trent Marie Brennan Tor Books Release Date: March 31, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-3198-4 I want to be Lady Trent when I grow up. Okay, so I’m way past the age where I could look forward to being “grown up”, but I still […]
Owl and the Japanese Circus Kristi Charish Simon & Schuster Release Date: January 13, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4767-9499-0 Alix Hiboux is a thief, specializing in antiquities. Well, thief is a somewhat suggestive term, but she has built a reputation for acquiring ancient artifacts for discerning (and wealthy) clients. It wasn’t always […]
The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir of Lady Trent Marie Brennan Tor Release Date: March 4, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7653-3197-7 Lady Trent is back, as feisty as ever. We first met her as a young woman in A Natural History of Dragons, where she was grappling with a burning curiosity considered […]
A Natural History of Dragons Marie Brennan TOR Books First Edition: February 5, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7653-3196-0 — ♦ — What a wonderful flight of fancy! Marie Brennan’s newest work, A Natural History of Dragons, is a delightful blend of Victoriana, fantasy and archaic science at its best. Told as the […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.