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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Oathkeeper by J.F. Lewis, Dark Run by Mike Brooks, and The Shadow Revolution by Clay and Susan Griffith

Posted on 2015-07-17 at 19:1 by angelablackwell

Review of The Oathkeeper by J.F.Lewis (Pyr, June 9, 2015)

This is the second volume of the Grudgebearer Trilogy.  The main characters in this volume are Rae’en and Wylant. These female characters had a lesser role in the first volume because Kholster was alive then and for this volume he is a god.

Wylant and Kholster’s marriage is still ongoing even though he has passed into godhood, but the situation definitely makes for some amusing romantic confusion. Kholster wasn’t the brightest bulb about romance

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The Exploding Spaceship Visits RavenCon 2015!

Posted on 2015-04-30 at 2:14 by angelablackwell

Review of RavenCon 2015

Well, first of all, given the presence of large numbers of people from both sides of several issues causing no small amount of strife in the SF/F fan community, the attendees were all very well behaved. There was only one incident by someone claiming to be press, but hadn’t bothered to notify the convention that they were attending. Your Humble Reviewers were among a number of press people who had notified the convention ahead of time and were badged as such; failure to conform to

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The Exploding Spaceship Belated Edition: Review of Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

Posted on 2015-04-23 at 2:22 by angelablackwell

Review of The Mirror Empire: The Worldbreaker Saga by Kameron Hurley (August 26, 2014, Angry Robot)

Your humble reviewers apologize for not posting this with their young adult appropriate fantasy column shortly after it was released. We wrote and edited the review but in the midst of the fall craziness it didn't get posted in the column. The book has been nominated for a Gemmell award, and that made us go back to see where our review went. We loved the book, and knew we had reviewed it, but unfortunately

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition: Review of War of Shadows by Gail Z. Martin

Posted on 2015-04-21 at 4:38 by angelablackwell

Review of War of Shadows: Book Three of the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga by Gail Z. Martin (Orbit, April 21, 2015)

Blaine and his friends continue the battle to save Donderath from Reese and Pollard and the crazy mage Vigus Quintrel.  Blaine’s ex, Carensa, gives us a viewpoint of what Quintrel is doing.  She has realized her mentor is bonkers, but fears for her life since he keeps killing mages (whose ghosts actually turn out to be helpful, too).

One event in this book which was a nice change from battles

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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition! Reviews of The Grace of Kings, The Rebirths of Tao, and Superposition

Posted on 2015-04-07 at 15:47 by angelablackwell

Review of The Grace of Kings: Book One of the Dandelion Dynasty by Ken Liu (Saga Press, April 7, 2015)

Just when Your Humble Reviewers were getting tired of avoiding many fantasy novels because they all sounded like something we had already read, along came Ken Liu’s first novel to blow that idea away.  As a reader of some of his short fiction, we had high hopes for his novel simply because we suspected it would be well-written and based in a Chinese-influenced setting. The setting of the Dandelion

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Recent Urban Fantasy Good Reads: Pocket Apocalyse by Seanan McGuire and Demon Child by Kylie Chan

Posted on 2015-04-06 at 4:1 by angelablackwell

Review of Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire (DAW, March 3, 2015) This is the fourth novel in the InCryptid series about the Price family of cryptozoologists and their adventures saving humans and cryptids (monsters to some) from each other. In this volume Alex’s girlfriend Shelby must go home to Australia to deal with a werewolf infestation and Alex goes with her as an expert (having dealt with them before, which no one else in Australia has). Of course the boyfriend accompanying as science know-it-all

Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged kylie chan, seanan mcguire

The Exploding Spaceship International Women's Day Special Edition

Posted on 2015-03-08 at 5:53 by angelablackwell

In honor of International Women’s Day we bring you some thoughts on our favorite women science fiction writers and a review of a recent release from one of our favorites, Brenda Cooper. Her first books are space adventures set on a lost ship which finally arrives at its destination, and she has a new series set in the same universe.

Review of Edge of Dark by Brenda Cooper (Pyr, March 3, 2015)

This is the first volume in a series called The Glittering Edge which is set in the same universe as The

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear

Posted on 2015-02-28 at 5:49 by angelablackwell

Review of Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (Tor hardcover, February 3, 2015)

Karen is a teenager in Rapid City who works in a brothel. She’s bright and inquisitive, qualities which lead her into trouble but also allow her to learn some information that is useful to Madam Damnable, her boss.  Rapid City feels like a strange steampunk San Francisco mixed with Seattle. The city is so textured and vibrant that it is itself a character in the book.

Many types of characters populate this novel, including a wide

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Winter Good Reads Part 2: Urban/Modern Fantasy Titles

Posted on 2015-01-29 at 6:0 by angelablackwell

Review of Paradigms Lost by Ryk E. Spoor (Baen, Nov 15, 2014)

This is an urban fantasy set in an alternate 1999-2001. This is a vastly expanded and revised volume which contains the contents of the story entitled “Digital Knight”. Jason Wood is an expert in information searches, image processing and enhancement, pattern matching and data forensics. Some of his contracts are with law enforcement.

A dead contact on his doorstep sends Jason and his girlfriend Sylvie into an adventure involving people who

Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged catherine asaro, darin kennedy, david b coe, ryk e spoor, spell blind, the mussorgsky riddle

The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Winter Good Reads Part 1: Science Fiction and High Fantasy Titles

Posted on 2015-01-28 at 6:57 by angelablackwell

Review of  The Fortress in Orion: Dead Enders Book One (Pyr, Dec 2, 2014) by Mike Resnick

It's the first volume in his new space opera series set in his Birthright Universe. Cyborgs, aliens, convicts, or war heroes can all make interesting main characters. But what if you make them into an ensemble cast of a space adventure book? Resnick has taken these different character types and made them into a mostly non-military special ops team.

This is old-school space opera with the only military character

Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged joel shepherd, jon f merz, katherine kurtz, kv johansen, mike resnick