by Donn Hess | Feb 25, 2021 | Reviews
Robert Jackson Bennett isn’t the first fantasy author to describe magic as a way of manipulating creation’s source code, but he is the first I’ve read who overlays the idea with an artificially intelligent villain. In Shorefall, the second installment to his...
by Donn Hess | Dec 15, 2020 | Reviews
Some authors are just too kind to the monsters. Nebula and LOCUS award-winner P. Djèlí Clark certainly is in his latest novel, Ring Shout. Ring Shout reimagines the birth of the Ku Klux Klan as a Lovecraftian horror-story. In Clark’s alternate history, defeated...
by Donn Hess | Dec 4, 2020 | Reviews
This will be a review of Richard Kadrey’s newest Sandman Slim novel, Ballistic Kiss. I promise. But first, a personal story: A very good friend of mine recently confessed his addiction to reruns of the late 90s television hit, Felicity. The series was named by Time...
