AMAZING – FANTASTIC – INCREDIBLE (A Marvelous Memoir) By STAN LEE and Peter David and Collen Doran Touchstone 192 pages I was a 13 year old comic book reader when the birth of Marvel Comics launched the Silver Age of Comics in the early 1960s. That’s why writer/editor Stan Lee,
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
LIE CATCHERS By Paul Bishop Pro Se Press 272 pages On average, we read approximately fifty books a year. The bulk of those are fairly decent whereas a small number are amateurish and difficult to get through while an equally small number are truly exceptional; what we call great reads.
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
GENTLEMAN ROGUE An Infernum Novella By Percival Constantine Nifty Entertainment 139 pages “Gentlemen Rogue” is the third in a series about a shadowy spy organization and the mysterious man who operates, Dante. The first was a mixed bag called “Love and Bullets” which evidenced the potential Constantine had as a
HITLER’S TIME MACHINE By Robert F. Dorr ISBN # 978-0-9863200-0-2 292 pages The fun of any new pulp adventure is you never know exactly what you are going to get. Oh, sure, you can make a few educated guesses based on your knowledge of the author’s history and the book’s
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
BANARAK – Storming the Gates By Van Allen Plexico White Rocket Books and 243 pages This is as yet another action packed adventure taking place in the fictional sci-fi mythology created by Van Allen Plexico call The Shattering. In this mythos, mankind exists in a universe made up of three
HILO – The Boy Who Crashed To Earth By Judd Winick Random House Children’s Books 193 pages What we have with this charming, wonderfully illustrated hardback book is a marriage between traditional children’s books and your standard graphic novel. Formatted like a comic but capturing the essence of a children’s
