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Well, THAT was Totally Unexpected

April 17, 2017 by Lipton Leave a Comment

“To call the scene a disaster does it a terrific disservice. The final death toll was never fully calculated, for heaven only knew how many bodies might lie wedged in the rubble. And alas, there was no time for excavation.” – Hale Quarter

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: alternate history, boneshaker, cherie priest, steampunk, Young Adult, zombies

Lipton's CBR9 Review No:12 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: alternate history, boneshaker, cherie priest, steampunk, Young Adult, zombies ·
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I’m a nice man.

July 29, 2014 by narfna Leave a Comment

Rogues was my second George R.R. Martin/Gardner Dozois themed anthology in less than six months, and I’m happy to say I enjoyed it more overall than their previous effort, Dangerous Women. (I will pick up Warriors eventually. Maybe next year. I’m soooo done with anthologies for now.) And I’m sad to say, especially for how good Martin is at writing lady characters, I really think the main difference is that a lot of genre writers (including women!) just could not fathom how to write a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: #Scott Lynch, bradley denton, carrie vaughn, cherie priest, Connie Willis, daniel abraham, david w. ball, gardner do, garth nix, george r.r. martin, Gillian Flynn, joe abercrombie, joe r. lansdale, lisa tuttle, matthew hughes, michael swanwick, Neil Gaiman, paul cornell, phyllis eisenstein, steven saylor, walter jon williams

narfna's CBR6 Review No:66 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: #Scott Lynch, bradley denton, carrie vaughn, cherie priest, Connie Willis, daniel abraham, david w. ball, gardner do, garth nix, george r.r. martin, Gillian Flynn, joe abercrombie, joe r. lansdale, lisa tuttle, matthew hughes, michael swanwick, Neil Gaiman, paul cornell, phyllis eisenstein, steven saylor, walter jon williams ·
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