Idle Ingredients A Sin du Jour Affair- Book 4 Matt Wallace Tor.com Release Date: February 7, 2017 ISBN 978-0-7653-9003-5 Idle Ingredients is the fourth book in the Sin du Jour series, which follows the exploits of a premiere paranormal catering company based in Long Island. These quick, witty novellas by […]
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? Paul Cornell Pan Books Release Date: May 19, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4472-7326-4 London detectives James Quill, Tony Costain and Kevin Sefton, and analyst Lisa Ross form a unique team; they have been “gifted” with the Sight – the ability to see the hidden, supernatural side of London. […]
Nightwise R. S. Belcher Tor Books Release Date: August 18, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-7460-8 Wow. What a difference a bit of experience makes. I read R. S. Belcher’s debut novel, The Six Gun Tarot, shortly after it came out, and was very impressed with this supernatural Western thriller/morality tale, and especially […]
You’re Never Weird on the Internet (almost) Felicia Day Touchstone Books Release Date: August 11, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4767-8565-3 In 2007, something fun happened on the internet: The Guild, a web series based on the lives of a group of gamers, posted its first season on You Tube. The game upon […]
Gemini Cell Myke Cole Ace Books Release Date: January 27, 2015 ISBN 978-0-425-26964-0 They’re lying to you. Whoever wrote the back cover copy and the PR blurb-age wants you to think that Gemini Cell, the fourth in Myke Cole’s “Shadow Ops” series (and a precursor to the first three books) […]
We Are All Completely Fine Daryl Gregory Tachyon Publications Release Date: August 12, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61696-171-8 So…. in the beginning (of this novel) there are five patients and one psychotherapist who meet together once a week for group therapy. But the patients… let’s just say that they are not your […]
London Falling Paul Cornell Tor Books First Edition: April 13, 2013 ISBN: 978-0765330277 Two undercover officers, one a veteran, the other a rookie, at odds, suspicious of the other as far as techniques, motivations, loyalties. Add to that their abrasive, hard-nosed commander, who will battle for every inch even as […]
Dark Currents: Agent of Hel Jaqueline Carey A ROC Book First Edition: October 2, 2012 ISBN 978-0-451-46478-1 —♦— If you’ve read much of what I’ve had to say here at LitStack then you probably know that I am a huge fan of Jacqueline Carey. Her Kushiel Legacy series – especially […]
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.