Book Review

‘Singularity’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

SINGULARITY Rise of the Posthumans Edited by Jaime Ramos & Wayne Carey Pro Se Press 164 pgs. Shared world anthologies are always fascinating and at the same time a really challenge to pull off properly. In this wonderful book from Pro Se Press, editors Jaime Ramos and Wayne Carey have

‘The Myth Hunter’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

THE MYTH HUNTER Curse of the Necronomicon By Percival Constantine Nifty Entertainment 145 pgs Of the various series created by new pulp scribe Percival Constantine, our favorite is his Myth Hunter books starring beautiful Elisa Hill; a trained archeologist who travels the globe in search of arcane artifacts often believed

‘The Midnight Guardian’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN (Hour of Darkness) By John C. Bruening Flinch! Books 408 pages The traditional classic pulp novels that appeared in the 30s magazines generally ran 60,000 words. In them one would find a fast paced narrative that would explode across the pages in colorful, purple prose. Over time

‘Crimson Shore’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

CRIMSON SHORE A Pendergast Novel By Preston & Child Grand Central Publishing 370 pages Whenever people ask us what is the best New Pulp Fiction being published today, we’ll invariably point them to the Agent Pendergast novels by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. In the same way Clive Cussler’s Dirk

‘Fight Card – Sherlock Holmes’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

FIGHT CARD – SHERLOCK HOLMES A CONGRESSION OF PALLBEARERS By Andrew Salmon Fight Card 133 pgs This is the final entry in the Fight Card Sherlock Holmes trilogy as written by Canadian pulpster, Andrew Salmon. No stranger to Holmes and Watson, Salmon’s stories of the Great Detective have earned him

‘Sherlock Holmes – Domino Lady’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

SHERLOCK HOLMES – DOMINO LADY Edited by Joe Gentile Moonstone Press 120 pages Normally we don’t care for “hybrid” publications. By that we refer to books that have comics strips and prose stories mixed together between two covers; neither a full out graphic novel or a traditional prose anthology. And

‘The Immorality Engine’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

THE IMMORALITY ENGINE By George Mann Tor Books 347 pages It would be nice if publishers were uniform in how they dispensed their titles to reviewers but alas, that is not the case. Rather they simply hand copies to various marketing associates in their home offices and these men and

‘Tales From The Flip-Side’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

TALES FROM THE FLIP-SIDE The Adventures of Big Daddy Cool & The Bombshell Kittens By John Pyka Pros Se Press 169 pages When our colleague and fellow reviewer, Tommy Hancock, handed us a copy of this book and said, “It has everything from Nazis vampires to flying cars!” We knew

‘The Queen’s Marksman’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

THE QUEEN’S MARKSMAN By Theresa M. Moore Antellus Books (www.antellus.com) 285 pages In 1878, young Robert St. John, a descendant of the fabled Earl of Loxley, aka Robin Hood, joins the army to fight in Afghanistan. On the journey east via the Orient Express with the new recruits, he encounters

‘Transcendental’ book review by Ron Fortier

TRANSCENDENTAL By James Gunn Tor Books 302 pages When one titles a book “Transcendental,” it’s probably a good idea to start our review with a clear definition of that word. Our trusty old Webster list it as an adjective; 1) or relating to transcendentalism. (The philosophical belief that knowledge of

‘No Rest for the Dead’ Book Review By Ron Fortier

NO REST FOR THE DEAD By 26 Mystery Writers Edited by Andrew F. Gulli & Lamia J. Gulli Touchstone Books 252 pages Ever heard of a round robin? A round-robin story, or simply “round robin,” is a type of collaborative fiction or storytelling in which a number of authors each

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