LIGHTWEIGHT – Black Death By Nicholas Ahlhelm Metahuman Press 129 pages If you think surviving four years of high school it tough, try doing it as a superhero who can control gravity. That’s Kevin Mathis’s challenge in the second of Nicholas Ahlhelm wonderful series that explores both the angst of
HUNT AT WORLD’S END (A Gabriel Hunt Novel) By Nicholas Kaufman Titan Books 269 pages We recently participated in an on-line round table forum on how to avoid clichés when writing mystery fiction. Webster’s defines the word as “…a hackneyed expression or idea.” Hackneyed in that it has been repeated
THE HUMAN DIVISION By John Scalzi Tor Books 431 pages Rare are the times when a reviewer so loves a book that he or she has to share it with close friends and family, never mind their reading audience. Such was the case years ago when we first read John
AIRSHIP HUNTERS By Jim Beard & Duane Spurlock Meteor House 210 pages It’s 1897 and the 19th Century is coming to an end. America, still rebuilding from the ruinous Civil War, is on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution. Things look bright for the future until mysterious reports of strange
GIDEON SMITH & THE MASK OF THE RIPPER By David Barnett Tor Books 379 pages I am by no means a fanatical fan of steampunk, though the little of it I’ve read in the past few years has entertained me a great deal. None more than David Barnett’s series starring
JUST CAUSE By Ian Thomas Healy Local Hero Press LLC 350 pages For the past three years, Colorado based writer Ian Thomas Healy has been writing some of the most entertaining superhero fiction on the market today. This subgenre of fantasy adventure is about bringing spandex wearing comicbook characters to
JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN By Edgar Rice Burroughs (A graphic novel) Editor Patrick Thorpe Sequential Pulps & Dark Horse Books Since we first heard of this project, we were excited to see it come to fruition. The idea was simple enough, take Burrough’s own book, which relates the adventures of
THE MINISTRY OF THUNDER By Davide Mana Acheron Books 340 pages Shanghai in 1936 is overrun by foreign agents all vying to align themselves with various political factions they believe will survive the coming global conflict and emerge victorious. Amidst this cauldron of intrigue and espionage, Italian mercenary pilot Felice
THE BLACK STILETTO By Raymond Benson Oceanview Publishing 266 pages Did you ever wish you had a lot more time to read? I have to believe everyone reading these reviews is now nodding their head affirmatively. It seems every day a new book comes out that appeals to our particular
THE QUEST OF FRANKENSTEIN By Frank Schildiner 250 pages Black Coat Press Most of my experiences with Frank Schildiner’s work has been reading and editing his fast paced, action pack hero-pulp short stories. That his first full length novel should be one of unremitting horror came as a surprise to
HADON, King of Opar By Christopher Paul Carey Meteor House Press 153 pages Opar, the lost jungle city first appeared in the pages of Edgar Rice Burrough’s “The Return of Tarzan.” Some believe Burroughs took the name from the Biblical reference to Ophir, whence King Solomon supposedly received a cargo
HE-MEN, BAG MEN & NYMPHOS Stories by Walter Kaylin Edited by Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle New Texture 283 pages A little while ago this reviewer had the joy of discovering the fiction world of Men’s Adventure Magazines that proliferated the newsstands of the 50s, 60s and 70s via a
