On tumbles our ever-growing tangle of Weird Old Westerns, because what do you want more than shoot-outs and cattle raids at the holidays? Right, nothing. This time it's Six-Gun Snow White, a not-really-fairy-tale taken…
As I previously noted, the Old West is being retrodden by not a few new authors looking for the stories not previously found. Another of those is Lila Bowen, with her stellar debut Wake…
The American West is coming into vogue in a big way. Brandon Sanderson's getting into it, Rae Carson has a new trilogy set there, and there's also Vengeance Road, Under a Painted Sky, and Wake of…
We now have several reports of Lionsgate developing The Rook, a book about a British supernatural agency in crisis, into a Hulu series. Helmed by Stephanie Meyer of Twilight fame. Cue the screams. Look, I'm…
I was never much afraid of the Corinthian. Oh, don't get me wrong, he's a good character. A great one. But mouths for eyes and a taste for eyeballs? It doesn't really do it for…
The final book in the Lunar Chronicles is coming out in a few short days, so I'm in one of my periodic states of agony. To cope, let's talk about the first 3.5 books,…
There's a lot of mileage in fairy tales, and I don't know why people keep going back to the same old Disney classics when they could just open Grimm's and find something fresh to remake…
Christina Ladd: Area X Cross-contamination between various media was always inevitable. Books that read like movies--and now books that read like video games--were always going to happen, and I'm not sorry they did. But…
One of the blurbs on the back of A Borrowed Man describes the book as "Wolfean." Meaning, that it was written by and is quintessentially representative of Gene Wolfe, one of our modern SFF masters.…
The Clean Room #1 is a tantalizing first step into a world that is altogether a little too familiar. Everything is overexposed--in graphic detail--but somehow still full of hidden agendas. Each character's story immediately dramatically unfair,…