Science fiction fans have always had a respect and understanding for the history of the genre.
Unfortunately, science fiction has achieved such an age that each year sees our ranks diminished. Deaths in 2015 included
Alice K. Turner, Leonard Nimoy, Tanith Lee, Jon Arfstrom, George Clayton Johnson,
Suzette Haden Elgin, Sir Terry Pratchett, Christopher Lee and Peter Dickinson.
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reviewed by Nathan Brazil
This is the second novel in the author's Never War sequence, and as might be expected, picks up
almost where the first book ended. Ambitiously, the action aliens and Nazis sprawl across the USA, Germany, the Greek island of
Crete, occupied France, Stalin's Russia, and good old Blighty. Once again it's a hell-for-leather scramble between those loyal to
the Third Reich or the Allies, with the alien Vril following their own agenda and playing both sides against the middle.
By Force of Arms by William C. Dietz
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
In the latest volume in the Legion of the Damned series, Booly
comes back from the brink of what could have been disgrace as a hero
to his men who risked their lives for freedom. Now Naa Commandos are set to protect him, yet assassins come to try and
take over their encampment. The author fleshes out the characters and their lives, their doubts, loves and hopes. Booly's rescue
mission to get back Maylo gives us an idea of what kind of man he is, and what others think about him.
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This story is separated into two parts with several smaller chapters that create an epic feel about it. These
vampires seem more sophisticated than, say, the ones from a Stephen King novel. Their settings are bourgeois in their development
and the characters never lose their edge. While the previous three novels have set the scene and developed the characters, this,
the latest in the series, has a twist in the tale of which Sandra is very fond ever since reading Roald Dahl's deliciously
disturbing stories.
Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
Every day the men of Red Shield have to face the Collective as they need to keep the Kingdom enemy free in Luitox. Here
while they play the waiting game for their enemy to approach, we hear the war from several viewpoints during the
story and many of the accounts aren't what the Kingdom's rulers might expect. The men are tired, hurt, stressed-out
and at times bored out of their brains, and who can blame them? Their enemy is sneaky, dangerous and worthy of being
feared as they never show themselves if they can help it, and they aren't the sort of enemy who fights en masse.
The Oversight by Charlie Fletcher
reviewed by Nathan Brazil
This is the tale the last Hand; five people with supra-natural abilities, keeping the Law and Lore in an alternate
Dickensian London. The Oversight was established to police and maintain the borders between the world of men and the darkly magical
Sluagh. For many years an uneasy balance was achieved, mostly by mutual adherence to the rules that govern what is permitted from
both sides. Then came the Disaster.
A Conversation With Rick Riordan
An interview with Steven H Silver
On merging Greek and Egyptian mythology:
" It wasn't too difficult [to merge Greek and Egyptian mythology] because historically the Greeks and the Egyptians were merging
their mythologies for centuries, that's the Ptolomaic dynasty, that's what it was all about. So that really was my stepping
point: Ptolomy and when the Greeks took over Egypt, how they, in fact, tried to merge the mythologies, so that was kind of
my stepping off point."
Galaxy's Edge #9
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
The magazine is now considered an official SFWA-approved market and selling paper subscriptions. Mike Resnick always has his own topics he can discuss in
his "The Editor's Word" slot and this time around it's about science fiction fandom, claiming his own fandom as 'oldphart' who
has collected all the information needed to pass onto the next generation of fans so they have a clearer idea of the fandom.
Andromeda's War by William C. Dietz
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
Andromeda might have had chance to get over what had happened to her family over a year ago, but she missed her chance to kill the
cruel and evil ruler, Ophelia. And now that her uncle has been killed in a government raid on Earth, she realises she is the only
surviving heir and, as such, is the only one who can kill the empress and overthrow all the damage she has done.
Six-Guns Straight From Hell 2 by David B. Riley
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
The days of straightforward Western stories have evolved from the Louis L'Amour's of yesterday to be considered Western
horror, strange Western and even crossover stories, but one thing we can be sure of, they are well written. Edited, yet again
by David B. Riley, this second offering takes the Western story to a whole new level with a haunted house, ghost hunter, vampires
and gunfights -- every western story needs gunfights.
Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer
reviewed by Dave Truesdale
We see that the bright flame for forward-thinking, optimistic projects geared to providing a better future
for mankind in the mid-term forseeable future -- though perhaps dimmed, if current genre trends are any reliable metric -- has not
died, but has been faithfully preserved and given new life by current spokesman Neal Stephenson.
Indeed, it is Stephenson who is largely, if not solely, responsible for Project Hieroglyph, from which this original anthology
of 17 stories (two reprints) is the result.
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reviewed by Katherine Petersen
This sequel to 15 Miles, takes a good thing and makes it better. A mixture of horror, fantasy
and thriller, it proves that the total is usually better than the sum of its parts. After working a double murder in a remote
Virginian farmhouse, Sailor Doyle was called a hero and lauded for his bravery. So when he goes to a beach house on the New
Jersey shore where he grew up to recuperate from his leg and shoulder injuries and try to repair his broken marriage, he wants
to keep a low profile.
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reviewed by Sandra Scholes
The second in the series, Andromeda McKee (Cat Carletto) has been given the Imperial Order of Merit, and as such she has to
come back to Earth if she wants the award. As the story from Andromeda's Fall has already been a very strong one about her
life so far and all the crises and horrors in it, this novel builds upon the character development we originally saw. While the
first novel had her caught unawares with the death of her family, this novel finds her at her most mature ready to fight for
what she believes in, despite all the odds being stacked against her.
Resistance by Samit Basu
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
How can you not like a novel that stars out with a monster in Tokyo that rightfully Godzilla should sort out? Here
passengers of a flight from London to Delhi have developed super powers, and eleven years after, the world is awash with them.
What it would be like if we had developed any ability we wanted and had the
choice to use it for good or evil? But what if you had that choice, used it and others paid the ultimate price for the good guys and bad
guys with super powers?
Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
What if history as we know it had been different? In 1926 New York City, it's the time of the roaring twenties where coal run
cars and zeppelins and biplanes watch over the citizens of the city. America is at war with the British Empire, yet in Manhattan the
police are faced with a mafia so strong they can't hope to win against them. Only one man, a lone vigilante can try to break their
morale and he is called the Ghost.
Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box by George Mann
reviewed by Sandra Scholes
Holmes is bored. A knock at the door brings
him out of his troubles when a young man delivers a message from Mycroft Holmes about three deaths he believes are inexplicably
linked. The deaths are of Captain John Cummins, a British Army officer who urged surrender before tossing himself into a tiger
enclosure at London Zoo, a suffragette, Mary Temple, who threw herself under an Underground train and MP Herbert Grange who worked
at the War Office and once gave a pro-German speech before hurling himself into the Thames.
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In Memoriam: 2015
The Paradox by Charlie Fletcher
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth edited by Stephen Jones
Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory
Dave Vs. the Monsters: Emergence by John Birmingham