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Books in the Mail (W/E 08/23/2008)
Rob's Blog o' Stuff —
... Outside of the one book I've already read and the anthology from below, all these books are sequels or part of a series. I haven't read any of the previous books in any of those series, but maybe I'll try that experiment with one of them. That is, jump in the middle of the series and see how it the book reads. We'll see, here's the list of arrivals. Riders of the Storm (Book # 2 of the Stratification) by Julie Czerneda Riders of the Storm picks up the story of the Om’ray on Cersi. Led by Aryl Sarc into the ...
SPOTLIGHT: Books of September 2008
Fantasy Book Critic —
... Om’ray Aryl Sarc and her supporters have been exiled from the rest of their people. Finding refuge in the mountains, they work to rebuild the ruined village of Sona, even as they try to discover what happened to the original Sona Clan. But Sona has a history among all three of Cersi’s races—a history that may soon threaten the future of Aryl’s newly founded clan… Official Julie E. Czerneda Website Order “Riders of the Storm” ...
Fantasy Book Critic’s 2008 Review/2009 Preview — Janny Wurts
Fantasy Book Critic —
... “Riders of the Storm” by Julie E. Czerneda (continuation of her Trade Pact universe series, which has two trilogies, this one in progress). This story takes a nifty stance, where a determined and gifted character, not human in our sense, is leading a whole group of outcasts, and striving to hold their differences together and unravel several mysteries and contentions at the same time. ...
SPOTLIGHT: Books of March 2009
Fantasy Book Critic —
... themselves to a few well-mined areas of the vast fantasy realms. But the history of our world offers many cultures and areas rich in lore and legend that have barely been explored. And so we have “Ages of Wonder”. Here are nineteen original stories of myth, magic, and the creatures of fantasy, as seen through different historical eras— from the Age of Antiquity to the Age of Sails, the Colonial Age, the Age of Pioneers, the Pre-Modern Age, and the Age to come... Official Julie E. Czerneda Website Official Rob St. Martin Website ...
"Ages of Wonder" ed. by Julie E. Czerneda and Rob St. Martin (co-Reviewed by Liviu Suciu and Bogdan Lascu, with a contribution by Adrian Craciun)
Fantasy Book Critic —
... Official DAW Website Official Julie E. Czerneda Website Order "Ages of Wonder" HERE (US) and HERE (Europe/Overseas) INTRODUCTION: While I love sf and selected weird/interstitial fantasy anthologies, I have always found more traditional fantasy stories less enjoyable, mostly because they are so hard to do well. Sf and weird fiction get a lot punch from twists or sense of wonder settings and those are much easier to convey at short length, while the world building and epic narrative of genre fantasy ...
Books in the Mail (06/13/2009)
Rob's Blog o' Stuff —
... say is yet another) Vampire Hunter series. The twist here is that the hunter is a Native American shapeshifter. Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she's been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katie's Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who's killing other vamps... Rift in the Sky (Stratification ...
Sci-Fi Book Releases for July
Walker of Worlds —
... Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country. This volume contains novellas by Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, C.M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H. G. Wells, and Jack Williamson. Buy from: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com Rift in the Sky by Julie E. Czerneda (DAW) | 07 July Despite all good ...
Science in SF at the WorldCon
Biology in Science Fiction —
... is former biologist and SF author Julie E. Czerneda. Not surprisingly, Czerneda's novels have a strong bioscience basis. She is also the author of the non-fiction ...
Blurb Ethics
Jim C. Hines —
... Years later, I was reading Julie Czerneda’s comments about blurbs. I can’t remember exactly how she said it, but I came away thinking of blurbs as a contract, a matter of trust between reader and author. If a blurb from me has any impact at all, it will be because you’ve read my work, and you trust me as an author. You trust that I wouldn’t recommend something I didn’t like. ...
