Note: I originally wrote this in January 2017. It felt right to revisit. I think this time though, I am going to raise my head and my voice. I went to bed in the Shire, woke up in Mordor, Exchanged comfort for horror And complacency for fear. But the world Read more…
I just saw IT. And a few days ago Jack Conner reminded me that it was Stephen King’s birthday. Whereupon I commented that King is the Charles Dickens of our time. Some writers are meant for the age in which they write — King, Austen, Norah Roberts — and they Read more…
The YA steampunk novel from Martha Wells (Books of the Raksura), published by Strange Chemistry, does something that nowadays is absolutely extraordinary: its main character, a teenage girl, does not have a love interest. I repeat: This is a YA fantasy without a romance. Where’s the confetti? This deserves confetti! Read more…