Posts Tagged ‘high-fantasy’

Review: The Mice Templar Vol. 1: The Prophecy by Bryan Glass and Michael Oeming

22nd March 2009 by Darwin No Comments

This is not your average Disney anthropomorphic pink-fluffy-soft-headed adventure story. Which means that it’s already off to a good start.
The Mice Templar: The Prophecy is a high-quality hard-bound collection of graphic novel episodes that introduces the reader to the world of The Mice Templar.  Prepare yourself for a world where mice defend the night and rats […]

Review: The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop

24th February 2009 by katepaulk No Comments

I had known about Anne Bishop’s fiction for some time before actually reading more than excerpts. Partly this is budgetary restraint on my part - so many books, so little time - and partly it’s that the opening of Daughter of the Blood, the first book in the Black Jewels trilogy, wasn’t quite compelling enough […]

Interview: The Dark Romantic Fancies of Anne Bishop

19th February 2009 by katepaulk No Comments

“Julie dark is Anne light and fluffy.”
A common saying in Julie Czerneda’s SFF.net newsgroup.
A traditional way to describe Anne Bishop’s entrance to the realms of fantasy and science fiction would be to say she burst onto the scene ten years ago with the first novel of the Black Jewels trilogy, Daughter of the Blood. It […]

Review: The Godstalker Chronicles by P.C. Hodgell

9th February 2009 by Darwin No Comments

As an author, P.C. Hodgell has had a long road to travel.
The good news for readers is that, despite those trials and tribulations, she has found a new home for the stories from her Kencyr Saga at Baen Books.  The initial installment is a re-release of the first two books of the series in a […]