Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Robert V.S. Redick
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 1/26/2009 — 2008 FAVORITES: I pride myself in being behind the curve. My favorite reads tend to be those that other people discovered anywhere from a year to a generation ago (last year it was Peake’s Titus Groan ). If people are still talking about a ...

Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Stephen Hunt
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 1/26/2009 — 2008 FAVORITES: What with writing my fourth fantasy novel for HarperCollins , holding down the day job, family duties and keeping SFcrowsnest.com going, most the genre reading fun seemed to me to be occurring on the watch of everyone else but ...

Book Review: Xenopath by Eric Brown
darkfantasy.org 9/3/2009 — The pace is smooth and fast, and the author's vision offers a keen projection of what current techology might become, without glossing over typical flaws. For example, Vaughan's wrist phone, the description of which put me in mind of Dick Tracy, has poor reception while Vaughan is underneath the ...

Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 12/17/2008 — 2008 FAVORITES: “ Other Times Than Peace ”, a collection of military stories from Baen Books by David Drake , a classical scholar and former attorney who experienced war as a tanker, and whose stories about the dilemmas and problems soldiers ...

Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Jeff Somers
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 12/28/2008 — 2008 FAVORITES: I’m not always the brightest bulb in the pack, and my youth was misspent drinking on street corners and playing an obscure game called Bottlecaps on the streets of Jersey City (involving plastic caps from milk jugs, clay, and ...

Fantasy Book Critic Changes
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 8/19/2008 — As you may or may not know, last Sunday I announced HERE that I was no longer writing reviews or conducting interviews for Fantasy Book Critic . Because of that decision, I’m making a few changes to the blog that readers should be aware of: 1) ...

Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Jaine Fenn
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 1/1/2009 — 2008 FAVORITES: These days I don’t get anything like enough reading time—somehow it keeps transmuting into writing time. As a result I’m ashamed to say that I’m several years behind everyone else on my reading. I managed a grand total of one 2008 ...

Fantasy Book Critic Update
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 4/5/2009 — Dear Readers: I regret to inform you that I’m leaving Fantasy Book Critic due to recent circumstances. I have three more reviews scheduled throughout April, an interview in May, and I will see the giveaways currently running to their end as well as ...

Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Stephen Deas
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 1/8/2009 — 2008 FAVORITES: 2008 has been a really bad year for actually reading anything. The stand-out title has to be Joe Abercrombie’s “ The Blade Itself ”, and I'm so glad I waited until after I'd written “ The Adamantine Palace ” before I settled ...

Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Jim C. Hines
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com 1/12/2009 — 2008 FAVORITES: “ Midnight Never Come ” by Marie Brennan . This is an intricate, beautifully written historical fantasy that entwines Elizabeth the Virgin Queen and Invidiana , faerie ruler of the Onyx Court below London. Brennan brings ...