From Publishers WeeklyAfter encountering the alien Dhyrn on earth and later nearly dying on the Dhyrn home world in Czerneda's Survival (2004), biologist Mackenzie "Mac" Connor re....
From Publishers WeeklySwain, author of the gambling crime series starring Tony Valentine (_Grift Sense_, etc.), avoids many of the clichés of the antisocial ex-cop novel in this ch...
From Publishers WeeklyWhen most readers hear the words E. coli, they think tainted hamburger or toxic spinach. Noted science writer Zimmer says there are in fact many different st....
From Publishers WeeklyTaibo's introduction, evocatively titled Snow White vs. Dr. Frankenstein, is more compelling than any of the 12 stories in this slim anthology in Akashic's ce...
From Publishers WeeklyIn Turgeon's surprisingly dark retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, two women pine for the affections of a prince: mermaid Lenia, who pu...
From Publishers WeeklyIn Armstrong's sharp second mystery to feature former army sniper Mercy Gunderson (after 2010's No Mercy), Mercy stumbles late one night on the shot and slash...
From Publishers WeeklyReaders will be delighted with this collection of original novellas tied to popular crime/fantasy series. The standout is Sniegoskis Noahs Orphans, in which a...
From Publishers WeeklyPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Chabon teams up with the editors of Dave Eggers's McSweeney's magazine to create a fiction anthology with an innovative, simpl...
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1995 Madison Smartt Bell published __, earning both critical plaudits and a National Book Award nomination for this fictional account of Haiti's 18th-century sl...
From Publishers Weekly In the sure-to-please follow-up to Michael Tolliver Lives, the bestselling Tales of the City reboot, it's been 20 years since series anchor Mary Ann Single...