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The Heart of Faerie Oracle — Brian & Wendy Froud

Saturday, 27 March 2010 6:45 amMarch 27, 2010 Dave Truesdale

The Heart of Faerie Oracle by Brian & Wendy Froud

Reviewed by Dave Truesdale

Fans of Brian Froud will be pleased to see The Heart of Faerie Oracle, a 160 page hardcover book, and its 68 companion oracle card deck, each card featuring one of Froud’s beautiful color illustrations. This is the companion volume to both his 2000 “The Faeries’ Oracle” card deck and (in part) his 2007 book World of Faerie. Along with interior (two-tone) reproductions of each card, Wendy provides the accompanying text, explaining the meaning and import of each of the cards. The book is divided into nine chapters with titles such as: How to Use the Cards, About the Cards, The Faerie Queens, The Archetypes, Sprites, and The Ladies.

Crossed Genres: Year One

Monday, 22 March 2010 12:00 amMarch 22, 2010 KJ Hannah Greenberg

Crossed Genres: Year One

Edited by Bart R. Leib & K. T. Holt

“The Time of Tales” by C. L. Rossman
“Back to the Beginning” by Marilou Goodwin
“A Crazy Kind of Love” by Jeremy Zimmerman
“The Near-Sighted Sentinel” by Adam King
“Condiment Wars” by Jill Afzelius
“Red Dust” by Amanda Lord
“Deacon Carter’s Last Dime” by Nathan Crowder
“The Strangler Fig” by Jennifer D. Munro
“The Bat and the Blitz” by Erika Tracy
“The Good Old-Fashioned Kind of Water” by Camille Alexa
“The Drain” by M. Palmer
“Cold” by Melissa S. Green

Suspense — The Lodger

Saturday, 20 March 2010 12:01 amMarch 20, 2010 Dave Truesdale

“The Lodger” was the audition show for Suspense, and aired on July 22, 1940, two years before Suspense went into production, became a series, and aired its first weekly episode in June of 1942. Suspense was the brainchild of none other than Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), who had already begun to make a name for himself …

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Realms #1 — Winter 2010

Friday, 19 March 2010 7:32 pmMarch 20, 2010 Nathan Goldman

“Mistress Mourning” by Lawrence Buentello
“Lord of the North” by Alva J. Roberts
“City of the Damned” by Neil Carstairs
“A Thousand Words” by Corey Kellgren
“Army of Orphans” by Brock L. Noel
“The Unbreakable Shield” by Kristen Lee Knapp
“Heartless Gao Walks Number Nine Hell” by Bill Ward
“Hearts of Kaldun” by Martin Turton
“A Spell of Bad Weather” by Danny Birt
“Raven’s Call” by Patty Jansen
“The Masterpiece” by David Vahlberg

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Friday, 19 March 2010 5:41 amMarch 19, 2010 Steve Fahnestalk

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Edited by John Joseph Adams

(Night Shade Books, Sept. 2009)

“The Doctor’s Case” by Stephen King
“The Horror of the Many Faces” by Tim Lebbon
“The Case of the Bloodless Sock” by Anne Perry
“The Adventure of the Other Detective” by Bradley H. Sinor
“A Scandal in Montreal” by Edward Hoch
“The Adventure of the Field Theorems” by Vonda N. McIntyre
“The Adventure of the Death-Fetch” by Darrell Schweitzer
“The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“The Adventure of the Mummy’s Curse” by H. Paul Jeffers
“The Things That Shall Come Upon Them” by Barbara Roden
“Murder to Music” by Anthony Burgess
“The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor” by Stephen Baxter
“Mrs Hudson’s Case” by Laurie R. King
“The Singular Habits of Wasps” by Geoffrey Landis
“The Affair of the Forty-Sixth Birthday” by Amy Myers
“The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey” by Peter Tremayne
“The Vale of the White Horse” by Sharyn McCrumb
“The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger” by Michael Moorcock
“The Adventure of the Lost World” by Dominic Green
“The Adventure of the Antiquarian’s Niece” by Barbara Hambly
“Dynamics of a Hanging” by Tony Pi
“Merridew of Abominable Memory” by Chris Roberson
“Commonplaces” by Naomi Novik
“The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil’s Cape” by Rob Rogers
“The Adventure of the Green Skull” by Mark Valentine
“The Human Mystery ” by Tanith Lee
“A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman
“You See But You Do Not Observe” by Robert J. Sawyer

Realms of Fantasy — April 2010

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 6:14 pmMarch 18, 2010 Maggie Jamison

“Just Another Word” by Carrie Vaughn
“Hanuman’s Bridge” by Euan Harvey
“The Hag Queen’s Curse” by M.K. Hobson
“A Close Personal Relationship” by Thomas Marcinko
“The Fortuitous Meeting of Gerard van Oost and Oludara” by Christopher Kastensmidt

Suspense — The Black Door

Sunday, 14 March 2010 1:00 amMarch 14, 2010 Dave Truesdale

“The Black Door” tells the dark tale of a professor armed only with an ancient manuscript and a university grant as he travels the South American jungles in hopes of finding the lost City of the Fire God. He discovers much more than he and his guide have bargained for however, including a fabulous treasure …

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Realms of Fantasy — February 2010

Friday, 12 March 2010 6:32 pmMarch 13, 2010 Carl Slaughter & Nathan Goldman

Carl Slaughter and Nathan Goldman take a look at the February issue of Realms of Fantasy.

“How Interesting: a Tiny Man” by Harlan Ellison
“Mister Oak” by Leah Bobet
“The Demon of Hochgarten” by Euan Harvey
“Mélanie” by Aliette de Bodard
“The Unknown God” by Ann Leckie

The Dragon Book

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 6:20 pmMarch 11, 2010 Carla Billinghurst & Robert E. Waters

The Dragon Book, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois

Reviewed by Carla Billinghusrt and Robert E. Waters

Ace hardcover (November 2009)

“Dragon’s Deep” by Cecelia Holland
“Vici” by Naomi Novik
“Bob Choi’s Last Job” by Jonathan Stroud
“Are You Afflicted with Dragons?” by Kage Baker
“The Tsar’s Dragons” by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
“The Dragon of Direfell” by Liz Williams
“Oakland Dragon Blues” by Peter S. Beagle
“Humane Killer” by Samuel Sykes and Diana Gabaldon
“Stop!” by Garth Nix
“Ungentle Fire” by Sean Williams
“A Stark and Wormy Night” by Tad Williams
“None So Blind” by Harry Turtledove
“Joboy” by Diana Wynne Jones
“Puz_le” by Gregory Maguire
“After the Third Kiss” by Bruce Coville
“The War That Winter Is” by Tanith Lee
“The Dragon’s Tale” by Tamora Pierce
“Dragon Storm” by Mary Rosenblum
“The Dragaman’s Bride” by Andy Duncan

Tangent Online 2009 Recommended Reading List

Sunday, 7 March 2010 1:38 amMarch 7, 2010 Dave Truesdale

Tangent Online Recommended Reading List–2009

The following list is comprised of some 170-plus stories. Each length category (short story, novelette, novella) is separated into three further categories featuring stories that made an ever increasing impression on our reviewers. Thus, in each category, you will see a number of stories making the basic list, then a category of additional stories with one star (*), then two stars (**), and finally three stars (***), the latter being those with which the reviewers were most impressed.