THE GODS OF GOTHAM By Lyndsay Faye Berkley Books 427 pages One of the joys of reading any Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes mystery is their settings. It is unlikely Doyle’s purpose was ever to offer an historical travelogue but nonetheless we are given such in each and every tale.
THE SHOTGUN ARCANA By R.S. Belcher Tor Books 396 pages One of our favorite books of last year was “The Six-Gun Tarot,” by R.S. Belcher which we reviewed at that time as one of the most original, audacious weird western novels ever written. Now comes its sequel and we totally
DOCTOR OMEGA AND THE SHADOWMEN Edited by J.M. & Randy Lofficier Black Coat Press 278 pages Earlier in the year we saw the cover to this anthology and were greatly intrigued by it. Till then we had never head of Doctor Omega. This was obviously a sequel of sorts to
GIDEON SMITH & THE BRASS DRAGON By David Barnett Tor Books 352 pgs. Last year we discovered a truly marvelous steampunk title, “Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl,” by David Barnett. It was so audacious in its alternate-steam world presentation mixing original characters with figures from various literary classics. It
ADONIS MORGAN (Nobody Special) By Frank Byrns 115 pages Pro Se Press There are several respected writers in the New Pulp movement who specialize in tales of realistic superheroes. One of the best is writer Frank Byrns as he amply demonstrates in this paperback collection starring his metahuman character, Adonis
WAIT FOR SIGNS Twelve Longmire Stories By Craig Johnson Viking Penguin 183 pages We reviewers are always trying to come up with fancy descriptions that will instantly cue the reader into exactly what kind of experience awaits them in the title we are reporting on. It’s that tight-wire routine of
LEGION III – KINGS OF OBLIVION By Van Allen Plexico White Rocket Books 335 pages For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, this is the third and final volume of Van Plexico’s THE SHATTERING trilogy. It is a mind-blowing, action packed finale far greater than anything we could
SLOUCHING TOWARDS CAMULODUNUM (And Other Stories) By Micah S. Harris Mino Profit Press 188 pages Micah Harris is one of the finest adventure fantasy writers working today. So we were thrilled when this little book popped up in the mail a few weeks ago. It contains three new tales of
DNA By Raven Bourne Self-Published Available at Amazon.com 405 pages Long ago, after Star Trek had become a huge media success, the book world jumped on the profit-bandwagon and we were suddenly flooded with new Trek novels written by multitudes of recognized sci-fi authors and eventually others by amateurs entering
STINKING RICH By Rob Brunet Down & Out Books 277 pages Danny Grant is a young Canadian just out of high school with absolutely no talent or ambition to get ahead in life. More content to be a pothead slacker, he survives pulling whatever scams will bring him quick, easy
HELLFIRE El Mosaico Vol 3 By Michael Panush Curiosity Quills Press 243 pages One of the many things this reviewer loves about New Pulp is how writers are willing to change or alter standard book formats. Michael Panush does that quite admirably in this, the third volume of his weird
By Ralph L. Angelo Jr. Cosmic Comet Publishing 271 pages Long ago we discovered a copy of E.E. “Doc” Smith’s classic sci-fi novel, “The Skylark of Space.” What impressed us was how the action centered around two civilian scientists who build an amazing spacecraft and come up with the means
