Heart-Shaped Box291 reviews Joe Hill Harper, 2008 A legacy in horror honored + A great, debut thriller This first novel by Joe Hill, author of the acclaimed collection 20th Century Ghosts, makes its US debut with no little fanfare. And it lives up to its billing. From the moment aging Ozzy Osbourne-style rocker Judas Coyne is tricked into adding one more item to his collection of bizarre ...             Last Argument of Kings (First Law: Book Three)30 reviews Joe Abercrombie Pyr, 2008 This book is INCREDIBLE! + Rather good fiction + Not Free SF Reader Calling all females- forget the romantic vampire books, this series is all you can want! Easy to read, romance, action, fighting, not too much magic. This book is so good that I can't stop reading it at night. The character development is unusually good, with unique characters. I care about all ...             The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day 1)398 reviews Patrick Rothfuss DAW, 2008 I'm speechless + IF you need a new author to read Rothfuss is him! + Better than Harry Potter and more addicitive than pistachios Wow ... The Name of the Wind was incredible! Just plain incredible. I had heard of it from a friend that tens to like the same books as I do, I was complaining that to read anything REALLY good, I always have to go back and re-read my favorites. He suggested TNotW, I could hardly put it down. ...             Endless Things: A Part of Aegypt6 reviews John Crowley Small Beer Press, 2007 The transforming power of the novel + A multifaceted, humanizing, and magnificent sendoff to an epic saga. + magik + Magic, Writers Block & a fumble             Spook Country156 reviews William Gibson Berkley Trade, 2008 so real... + Still good + Cyberpunk meets John le Carré, but not Tom Clancy. So real after these last money melting weeks. A must read to get away from it all.             The H-bomb Girl Stephen Baxter Faber and Faber, 2007 Liverpool 1962. A place and time of danger and passion. A thrilling new music is bursting on to the grey streets of the post-war city. A music that electrifies. A music that promises to change everything. But in Cuba, on the other side of the earth, nuclear tensions are at breaking point. The end of the whole world could be just days away. At the heart of it all is 14-year-old Laura Mann. She's ...             Pirate Freedom (Sci Fi Essential Books)24 reviews Gene Wolfe Tor Books, 2007 Wolfe is Wolfe + Peripety + Confessions + Pirate Adventure! And Time-Travel! And more!             Victory of Eagles (Temeraire, Book 5)33 reviews Naomi Novik Del Rey, 2008 Temeraire rules! + Horatio Hornblower with Dragons + More great dragon fiction + Maybe Napoleon really deserves to win + Another great installment             Kingdom Beyond the Waves, The Stephen Hunt HarperVoyager, 2008             Halting State (Ace Science Fiction)55 reviews Charles Stross Ace, 2008 Believable Near Future + Good Extrapolation about the Future This is what real SciFi is all about (believable futures). If a writer can convince me what they are writing about can really happen, I am hooked. I am going read more of Charles Stross.             Making Money (Discworld)101 reviews Terry Pratchett Harper, 2007 Pratchett RULES! + "You get a wonderful view from the point of no return." + Very Entertaining! + Good potential & still worth reading, but not his best (3 1/2 stars) + Chuckle double effect!             Thirteen76 reviews Ballantine Books, 2007 Show me, don't tell me Very exciting premise here - in the not so distant future America has split along conservative and liberal lines into 2 separate countries and genetic experimentation has created a race of "super men" called 13's (genetic variation #13) who have either been locked up or exiled to the Mars colony. ...             The Court of the Air6 reviews Stephen Hunt Tor Books, 2008 "They think they are riding a tiger, but the tiger is riding them." + The Citizen Kane of Steampunk/Political/Fantasy/Adventure novels + A Dark, Dickensian Steam-Fantasy + A fresh and original Victorian-inspired fantasy + Nicely done             Brasyl20 reviews Ian McDonald Pyr, 2007 Brilliant stuff + Riveting stories perfect for science fiction collections Brasyl is a work of true brilliance! If William Gibson will still penning mainstream science fiction works than this is what he would have evolved into. Never has South America seemed so real as in this fictional cyberpunkish take on what it might end up as. I love it. If you have any taste, ...             Endless Things: A Part of Aegypt6 reviews John Crowley Small Beer Press, 2007 The transforming power of the novel + A multifaceted, humanizing, and magnificent sendoff to an epic saga. + magik + Magic, Writers Block & a fumble             Halting State (Ace Science Fiction)55 reviews Charles Stross Ace, 2008 Believable Near Future + Good Extrapolation about the Future This is what real SciFi is all about (believable futures). If a writer can convince me what they are writing about can really happen, I am hooked. I am going read more of Charles Stross.             Pirate Freedom (Sci Fi Essential Books)24 reviews Gene Wolfe Tor Books, 2007 Wolfe is Wolfe + Peripety + Confessions + Pirate Adventure! And Time-Travel! And more!             Heart-Shaped Box291 reviews Joe Hill Harper, 2008 A legacy in horror honored + A great, debut thriller This first novel by Joe Hill, author of the acclaimed collection 20th Century Ghosts, makes its US debut with no little fanfare. And it lives up to its billing. From the moment aging Ozzy Osbourne-style rocker Judas Coyne is tricked into adding one more item to his collection of bizarre ...             Making Money (Discworld)101 reviews Terry Pratchett Harper, 2007 Pratchett RULES! + "You get a wonderful view from the point of no return." + Very Entertaining! + Good potential & still worth reading, but not his best (3 1/2 stars) + Chuckle double effect!             The H-bomb Girl Stephen Baxter Faber and Faber, 2007 Liverpool 1962. A place and time of danger and passion. A thrilling new music is bursting on to the grey streets of the post-war city. A music that electrifies. A music that promises to change everything. But in Cuba, on the other side of the earth, nuclear tensions are at breaking point. The end of the whole world could be just days away. At the heart of it all is 14-year-old Laura Mann. She's ...