Reviewed by: Samuel K. Sloan (FarPoint Media Executive News Director)
I must admit that when a representative for Michael Grant’s publisher asked me to read and review “Gone,” Grant’s latest Young Adult (YA) novel, I was less than excited. Why? I’m simply not a big fan of YA novels. Call it my age […]
“Bright Sky” & “Spindrift” — A Slice of SciFi Book Review
July 1, 2007 || Category: Book Reviews | 1 Comment
Reviewer: Debbie Walker (SoSF Contributor)
© A Slice of SciFi Book Review:
Bright of the Sky , by Kay Kenyon
Titus Quinn wakes up on a distant planet six months after he piloted a colony ship through a black hole and it was destroyed. His explanation of spending 10 years in a parallel universe doesn’t fly […]
Written by: Samuel K. Sloan (SoSF Managing News Director)
“Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.” — Buster “Rant” Case
I am going to do something we rarely, if ever, do on Slice of SciFi. I will be reviewing a book. Normally we reserve […]
Legend of the Blue Diamond Gets Launched
October 27, 2005 || Category: Book Reviews | Leave a Comment
Source: Insight News
Submitted by: Lesmond
Science fiction writer Keshawn Dodds launches new ’space adventure’ book, “Menzuo S.W. (Solar Warriors) Legend of the Blue Diamond”
Science fiction writer Keshawn Dodds has launched his new adventure series, Menzuo S.W. (Solar Warriors) to focus on space exploration and adventure. Dodds’ first book, “Menzuo in the Calling of the Sun Prince,” […]
Visions and Re-Visions: Re-Constructing Science Fiction - A Review
October 8, 2005 || Category: Book Reviews | Leave a Comment
Source: Fabula
Review By: Julian Desrochers
Submitted by: Lesmond
R.M. Philmus, Visions and Re-Visions: (Re-)Constructing Science Fiction
[Liverpool University Press, 2005, 288 p. ISBN: 0853238995]
This book makes a case for the novel idea that science fiction comes out of The Time Machine as a literature of re-visions as well as of visions.
�Re-vision� in the pertinent sense finds its […]
Dean Koontz’s FRANKENSTEIN, BOOK TWO: CITY OF NIGHT
August 2, 2005 || Category: Book Reviews | 2 Comments
Source: Dean Koontz-Random House
For all our Dean Koontz fans the saga continues in his new “Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night.”
This past winter, Dean Koontz unleashed his first ongoing series of books with “Frankenstein, Book One: Prodigal Son.”
This new series is a complete re-envisioning of the Frankenstein myth, bringing the monster and his now-evil […]
