In the 1970s and 1980s, fantasy cover art saw a significant transformation with the emergence of bold, colorful illustrations. Artists like Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo brought a new dimension to book covers, characterized by dynamic compositions and intense, almost hyper-realistic depictions of...
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two edited by Jonathan Strahan The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Two is one of several anthologies that collects the best science fiction and fantasy of 2007. I’ve read many of the stories included, yet...
December 19th, 2016.Stuart Starosta´s rating:5|Lucius Shepard|Locus Award,Short Fiction,World Fantasy Award|SFF Reviews|2 comments| The Empire of Ice Cream: Dynamic range and dynamic prose The Empire of Ice Creamby Jeffrey Ford Emerging in the late morning of an overcast day (one novel ...
Genre: Science fiction / fantasy Source: Purchased Rating: Rating: 3 out of 5. A defiantly joyful adventure set in California’s San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. ...
Genre: Non-fiction – pop culture/entertainmentSource: LibraryRating: Rating: 4 out of 5. Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away from it? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary,” Emily ...
Authors can make fun of man-chest covers, or the boring couple with the script font on the front, or all the thriller covers that look the same (girl in red jacket running away from the camera in the fog), or all the Urban Fantasy with the tough girl holding a fireball, but in do...
Fantasy Masterworks has a printing, that all who haven’t read should grab. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson One of the most ambitious series I have read, and one of the first “economic” fantasy novels I read, Stephenson mixes politics, historical fiction, and a touch of sci-fi....
“Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds—and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. ...
Our science fiction & fantasy reading and discussion group has talked about many, many books since the summer of 1994! Book for January 22, 2025 - Lexicon by Max Barry Book for February 12, 2025 - I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle ...