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Book Review: FOOL’S ASSASSIN by Robin Hobb

The stories of FitzChivalry Farseer were well documented by Robin Hobb in the Farseer Trilogy and the Tawny Man Trilogy. His actions even had consequences only seen in the Liveship Traders Trilogy and the Rainwild Chronicles. And for some time everyone thought Fitz, aka Tom Badgerlock, was going to live the happily ever after he deserved after the trials and tribulations he faced in the previous books. That happiness ...

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Published on August 12, 2014 06:43

SF Book Releases This Week: August 12, 2014

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Dead Boyfriends
By John Dodds

Some ...

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Published on August 12, 2014 05:49

Book Review: SODA POP SOLDIER by Nick Cole

Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole

Very entertaining adventure through the life of a future gamer who faces extreme odds of survival in game and out. Our gamer, PerfectQuestion, is the leader of a ColaCorp professional first person shooter team who is losing game after game to a big time team in WonderSoft. The cost per loss are major advertising slots for WonderSoft and if ...

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Published on August 11, 2014 04:00

AISFP Podcast 270 – M.R. Carey, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

Timothy C. Ward, author of Scavenger (free today thru Wednesday), interviewed M.R. Carey about his breakout novel, The Girl with all the Gifts. In Tim’s review a few weeks ago, he called it one of the best reads of the year. This interview has a small spoiler section in the last few minutes, but otherwise you need not fear listening to this podcast if ...

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Published on August 11, 2014 03:52

Book Review: FROSTBORN by Lou Anders

I think kids are going to love Forstborn: Thrones and Bones by Lou Anders. As someone who has never been interested enough in middle grade fantasy (fantasy for ages 8-12), I was really impressed with how much I liked this. Frostborn is a smart adventure story for fans of dragons, frost giants, dwarves, swordfights and strategy games. There is a fair amount of humor, one ...

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Published on August 08, 2014 14:00

AISFP Podcast 269 – Nick Cole, SODA POP SOLDIER

Soda Pop Soldier is the new novel from Nick Cole, author of the bestselling Wasteland Saga. Call of Duty meets Diablo, Soda Pop Soldier is the must-read thriller for gamers and anyone interested in how that profession could affect a bleak, future world.

Guest host, Michael Bunker, author of #1 Science Fiction Novel on Amazon, Pennsylvania, joins Timothy C. ...

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Published on August 07, 2014 04:30

Book Review: HOLLOW SPACE: VENTURE by T.F. Grant & Colin F. Barnes

HOLLOW SPACE: VENTUREis the first book in the Xantoverse series, brought to us by TF Grant and Colin F Barnes. This book, while highly unexpected, is yet another example of the powers of co-authorship. It’s also an example ofexcellent space opera.

HOLLOW SPACE brings us to a world that is familiar, but not. When Sara Lorelle and essentially the final handful of the ...

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Published on August 06, 2014 05:46

SF Book Releases This Week: August 5, 2014

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Frostborn (Thrones and Bones)
by Lou Anders
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Published on August 05, 2014 03:59

Book Review: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

For me, this Stoker award winning collection has a lot of merit, but simply doesn’t capture me on an individual level.

It’s hard for me to say where exactly the book doesn’t work me. In many of the stories, I simply spaced out and lost the plot. For example, I honestly couldn’t tell you what “The ...

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Published on July 31, 2014 03:59

Book Review: DEVICES AND DESIRES by K.J. Parker

“The quickest way to a man’s heart,” said the instructor, “is proverbially through his stomach. But if you want to get into his brain, I recommend the eye-socket.”

So begins Devices and Desires, the first novel in K.J. Parker’s masterful Engineer Trilogy. (It also happens to be the opening lines of Evil for Evil, and The Escapement—books two and three respectively.) From the very beginning ...

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Published on July 30, 2014 03:51