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Full Circle: Electronic Afterlife by Alfred R. Taylor
Reviewed by Michael D. Griffiths
Publisher: Self Published
Year Published: 2012
Rating: 3 out of 5


Full Circle: Electronic Afterlife, by Alfred R. Taylor is a self-published novel. It is odd in the fact that it takes place in the present, the future, and even the past. Mark Aaron is a historical researcher until the death of his body. His mind however stays intact and is placed into an android body in the far flung future. Why his mind was picked remains a mystery, even to the reader. The novel is mostly from his point of view, but does veer off to put us within the mind of the story’s primary villain for a while. Later, we also experience things through the eyes of a pioneer woman when Mark and his fellow android and side kick Jane travel back into the Wild West.
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Title: LUCKY BASTARD by, S.G. Browne
Publisher: Gallery Books
Pub Date: April 2012
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Reviewer: Joshua Palmatier




This book is slightly outside of my usual reading list, since it's more mainstream than sci-fi/fantasy. It certainly has an SF&F flavor to it, as you'll see, but it still wouldn't be considered urban fantasy (even though it's close). I mostly got this book because I was the moderator on a panel at the San Diego Comic Con, and S.G. Browne was one of the panelists. I was doing some research on the panelists and read the first part of this book (about 50 pages) to get an idea of what it was about. I set it aside shortly after that, but it kept calling to me, so I picked it up recently, started it over again, and finished it off. The fact that I returned to it when I have probably a couple of hundred other books in the SF&F genre on my shelves waiting to be read tells you something about the book.

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The Frenzy War, by Gregory Lamberson,
Published by Medallion
Published: 2012
Stars: 4
Reviewed by David Hodge




It's the second in their Frenzy series, or Frenzy Wolves series, after The Frenzy Way. So we have another werewolf novel, a sequel at that. And it's set in modern New York again. The wrinkle is that the werewolves are the goodgize! Well, mostly. There was that rogue that our human hero, Tony Mace, killed two years ago, and a dissident werewolf faction led by the current pack leader's brother. We're not sure about them yet.


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Dead Things, by Stephen Blackmoore
Publisher: DAW Books
Pub Date: February 2013
Reviewer: Joshua Palmatier
Rating: 3/5

This is Stephen Blackmoore's second novel and it's unrelated to his first, City of the Lost, at least in terms of sequels or series. There are a few tenuous connections--such as the mysterious bar with multiple hard-to-find entrances, etc--but it's really a stand-alone novel. So if you've never read Stephen Blackmoore, feel free ...

Born of Shadows - Book 4 of The League series, by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Published by, Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2011
Reviewed by, SJ Higbee
Stars: 3.5/5

Although I'd heard of this series, I hadn't read any of Kenyon's books, so when the opportunity came to whip a copy of this off the shelves, I took it. However, it meant that I was reading the book completely out of sequence. So, did that significantly affect my reading pleasure – and did I enjoy ...

Crogian, by John Leahy
Published by Necro.
Published : 2012
Reviewed by Allenstein.
Stars: 3/5

CROGIAN is a science fiction - horror novel.There are many familiar elements in this novel, particularly the badgize' Evil Government Conspiracy, centered on a psychopathic air force colonel, David Larrigan, but with support from the Pentagon, where visions of super weapons dance in their heads.

It seems that a drunken miner in very rural Alaska ...

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, by Philip Jose Farmer
Published By: Titan
Published: 2011
Reviewed by: Michael D. Griffiths
Stars: 3.5/5

The great Phileas Fogg was first made famous by Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days. As we know, in the original novel Fogg makes a bet that he can circle the globe in less than eighty days. This book reenacts that familiar journey, but Farmer also revels what is hidden behind the scenes, in particular the interaction ...

Death on the Downs (Fethering Mystery #2), by Simon Brett
Published By: Berkley Prime Crime
Published: 2011
Reviewed by: SJ Higbee
Stars: 3.5/5

In the depths of winter, still recovering from the over-indulgence of the Christmas holidays, this entertaining whodunit certainly hits all the right spots.

Caught out in a sudden downpour during a walk on the South Downs, Carole Sedden shelters in a dilapidated barn – only to discover two fertiliser ...

More Than Kin by Ty Johnston
Publisher: L. M. Press
Published: 2010
Reviewed by: SJ Higbee
Stars: 4/5

As Ty guested on my blog on 22nd November, I uploaded his book More Than Kin from Amazon for the princely sum of £2.15 – and I have to say that other than Terry Pratchett’s Snuff, it is the cleanest and least error-pocked text I’ve yet encountered.

Walt Johnson has been a rolling stone most of his life, moving from town to town and living ...