What do the following works have in common: M. John Harrison’s Viriconium Nights , Ursula Le Guin’s Tales from Earthsea , Ian McDonal...

Ken Liu’s first published story appeared in 2002, and over the next eight years only five additional stories appeared.   A fire lit b...

Many science fiction and fantasy writers pass away each year, but few cause me personal pause.  Hearing yesterday of the passing of Terry Pr...

Having just finished the second book in Stephen Donaldson’s ongoing The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant called The Illearth War , I ca...

Picking up the events precisely where The Other Lands left off, The Sacred Band is the other half of the story, and the conclusion ...

David Anthony Durham’s Acacia: The War with the Mein was the author’s first foray into speculative fiction and a book that stretched...

Reading David Anthony Durham’s Acacia: The War with the Mein is a mixed experience.   On more than several occasions the clichés of e...

For those who have not discovered Brian Jacques delightful and exciting Redwall series, you’re in for a real treat. Though aimed at ...

Printed and re-printed more than 150 million times, existing in thirty-eight translations of foreign languages, spawning a variety of...

For readers perusing the volume titles of Paul Kearney’s Monarchies of God series pondering whether to slap down the cash, Ships fro...

With Hawkwood, Bardolin, and Murad arriving back on Normandian shores in the epilogue of The Iron Wars , Kearney hinted the next book...

The Iron Wars is unique among the five volumes of Paul Kearney’s Monarchies of God series.   Like the handle of a dumbbell, it conn...

The Heretic Kings , volume two of Paul Kearney’s five part Monarchies of God series, picks up events precisely where Hawkwood’s Voya...

After reading the first installment in Paul Kearney’s Monarchies of God quintuplet, Hawkwood’s Voyage (1995), its difficult to beli...

Glen Cook’s Black Company series has been going since 1984, ten books and counting.   Cook by and large flying low on most people’s ...

Paul Kearney is a name that flies under most fantasy radars.   It is undeservingly so.   Possessing writing skills that move stories ...

In 1976, David Gemmell was undergoing testing for cancer, and in an effort to take his mind from the process, began putting on paper ...

In spite of its title and cover art, there are many things that Gene Wolfe’s The Wizard Knight is, and many things it is not.   Tho...

Goodkind, Feist, Eddings, Salvatore, Brooks, Williams, Donaldson , Jordan, etc., etc., the list of post- Tolkien imitat—err, I mean, wr...