Book Review: Sasha by Joel Shepherd
graspingforthewind.com 10/26/2009 — # Genre: Historical Fantasy, Epic/High Fantasy # Paperback # Publisher: Pyr # Publication Date: October 27, 2009 # ISBN-10: 159102787X # ISBN-13: 978-1591027874 In the Cassandra Kresnov trilogy, Joel Shepherd created a strong heroine with a powerful personality. The pseudo-historical ...

No ice, no fire: George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows
tor.com 9/24/2009 — In the first three volumes of this series, Martin wrote chapters from different limited third-person points of view, with each character’s chapters forming a complete story but all the chapters interlinked and commenting on each other. The chapters ...

No true knights: George R.R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings
tor.com 9/12/2009 — A Clash of Kings is the second in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. Sensible people would read them in order if they normally read chapters of a book in order. What I want to say about this volume without spoilers is that again ...

Paranormal fantasy that isn't: George R. R. Martin’s Fevre Dream
tor.com 8/31/2009 — Though Anne Rice is perhaps the best known writer of vampires, around about the same time that Interview with the Vampire was published another notable author had written a piece of vampire fiction. It didn’t get as much press at the time, but his ...

Book Review: Dark Haven by Gail Z. Martin
darkfantasy.org 8/9/2009 — The signifiers are everywhere: more nuanced and positive attitudes toward peasants, a central core of allies prominently united across national, gender, or species line against individuals of ill-will (many of whom seem to take a particular pleasure in mistreating women), and strong and equal ...

Book Review: Buyout by Alexander C. Irvine
darkfantasy.org 9/8/2009 — To say Martin wrestles with the morality of his labor is an overstatement; he and morality play pattycake, at best, and Martin becomes the face of the buyout program. The benefits are financial, immediate and tangible; the costs include his rapidly dissolving marriage, his privacy, the respect ...

Empty Criticism
ruthlessculture.com 6/24/2009 — This week has seen some quite bitter disagreement over the role of the critic in writing about genre. As pieced together by Abigail Nussbaum and Niall Harrison, the debate started when a new group blog launched claiming not only the name ‘ethics’ ...

In conversation with George R.R. Martin
communities.canada.com 8/8/2009 — Both best-selling and critically acclaimed, author George R.R. Martin has been writing professionally since the early 1970s. He won the Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1973, the first in a long list of awards he’d go on to win. He began ...

Weddings more dangerous than battles: George R.R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords
tor.com 9/24/2009 — A Storm of Swords is a very long book. This is objectively true—it’s 1216 pages, where A Game of Thrones is 716 and A Clash of Kings is 768. It’s also subjectively true, it’s very long, a lot happens in it. It’s impossible to summarize it, or ...

Stick them with the pointy end: George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones
tor.com 9/12/2009 — I joked a little while ago that I was going to do a chapter-by-chapter re-read of these and post one every hour. I really can’t read slowly enough to do that sensibly. I read in great gulps, not in considered sips. So it’ll be one post per book, as ...