Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Reviewspam Creeps In This Petty Pace

Slightly laboured title? I apologise.

Anyway, we have another plethora of reviews and bumf for you today. So hold tightly to your seats...

• Eric Brown at The Guardian has written these great reviews of Age of Zeus...
  
  "This is the kind of complex, action-oriented SF Dan Brown would write if Dan Brown could write."
  
  ...and Shine.
  
  "It's a bold attempt to counter the prevailing gloom of much current SF."
  
  
• TTA Press's Interzone 228 also includes reviews of both books (not on the site; you'll have to pick up the magazine):
  
  "Lovegrove has fun with his premise, and he's not afraid to get in a few digs at the real world."
  
  "If there's a stand of optimism that links the best stories in the collection is is something to do with human imagination, inventiveness and perseverance."
  
  
• Jim Dodge Jnr. at Mass Movement Magazine offers this glowing review of Justin Gustainis' Evil Ways:
  
  "Just be ready to have a Hell of a good time!"
  
  
• Neale Monks at SF Crow's Nest posted this very warm review of Brian Lumley's The Lost Years: Harry and the Pirates...
  
  "...should appeal to both Lumley fans and those who simply enjoy well-written horror fiction."
  
  
• ...while his colleague Patrick Mahon follows up on his previous review of Eric Brown's Necropath with this review of Xenopath.
  
  "Jeff Vaughan's new-found optimism is a convincingly drawn testament to the transformative power of love and makes this a fundamentally uplifting book to read. "
  
  
• Joshua Hill at the Fantasy Book Review gives a positively gushing account of Paul Kearney's The Ten Thousand:
  
  "Kearney captures all the best parts of fantasy – the young nobodies destined for glory, the gathering of a team, mercenaries, and exotic races and places – and combines them together with grit and realism and enough blood to drown a horse."
  
  
• SFX Magazine's summer 2010 issue 197 (again, you'll have to pick it up) includes a decent review of Ian Whates' The Noise Within.
  
  "Whates has crafted a thoroughly entertaining space opera, set in a universe brimming with humans, AIs and, just maybe, something alien."

So dig 'em up and check 'em out.

Cheers,

David

Goedel, Escher, Reviewspam

Wotcher chaps,

Slight hiatus on sarcasm and funnay here as we have been embroiled in book stuff. Will be making time as soon as opportunity gives to provide you with some kick-ass wurdz (see, if you spell it with a Z it's "edgy") soon.

In the meantime, some reviews:

• Jonathan Cowie at The Science Fact and Science Fiction Concatenation has given us this slightly mixed review of Eric Brown's Cosmopath.
  
  "As is typical with Brown's novels, we are off at a cracking pace almost from page one."
  
  
• Jonathan also gives us this very kind review of Jeste de Vries's Shine.
  
  "This anthology, in its way, markedly stands out from the crowd."
  
  
• Ian Hunter at the Concatenation gives us this very warm review of Justin Gustainis's Evil Ways.
  
  "A tough, fast, gripping read."
  
  
• The wonderful Jared at Pornokitsch gives us this gleeful appraisal of James Lovegrove's Age of Zeus.
  
  "The Age of Zeus is fun, entertaining and endlessly explosive."
  
  
• Liviu Suciu at Fantasy Book Critic also seems to have enjoyed Age of Zeus.
  
  "And the action is just unbelievably good."
  
  
• Liviu, meanwhile, gives a slightly more moderate review of Shine.
  
  "Shine starts with a bang with six stories that I enjoyed a lot and could not stop reading."
  
  
• Martin Willoughby at Hub Magazine has provided this review (at time of writing, you will need to download the PDF of issue 118, although it'll go fully online shortly) of Brian Lumley's The Lost Years: Harry and the Pirates.
  
  "The book is not something you want to read late at night if, like me, you are prone to nightmares!"
  
  
• Detra Fitch at Huntress Reviews seems to have been all over Shine.
  
  "5 Stars! So possible that it makes me shiver in fear for the future. Outstanding!"
  
  
• ...and was at least as happy (you'll need to scroll down a bit) about Age of Zeus.
  
  "FIVE STARS! A brilliant combination of modern warfare and Greek mythology.... Lovegrove is on his way to greatness."
  
  
• I think we need to take Detra on staff. She also loved the hell out of (again, you'll need to scroll down) all four of Gail Z. Martin's Chronicles of the Necromancer stories, including Dark Lady's Chosen.
  
  "FIVE STARS! Every time I pick up a novel by Gail Z. Martin, she takes my breath away!"

Phew. Big one there. Do give our reviewers some love by reading their posts.

Cheers,

David

Reviews and another "Best of..."

Hi all,

Mark Chitty of the Walker of Worlds blog has just written a very nice review of Eric Brown's Cosmopath, the third Bengal Station novel. Ten out of ten!

He's also put the second Bengal Station, Xenopath, fifth in his list of the best books of 2009 (as he only gave Xenopath nine out of ten, I'll expect to see Cosmopath high in his list next year).

And with Justin Gustainis' Evil Ways now out in A-format paperback, Mark's reminded us of the review he wrote for that one, too.

Cheers, Mark!