Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Title: Master of Devils Author: Dave Gross Genre: Heroic Fantasy/Sword & Sorcery Year: 2011 Pathfinder’s new line of novels are making a good impression among fantasy readers, accessible as they are to fans of Paizo’s game world and the uninitiated alike. If you are not familiar with Pathfinder it is essentially Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, [...]
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Title: The Tears of Ishtar Author: Michael Ehart Genre: Historical/Sword & Sorcery Year: 2010 (2007) Fans of Michael Ehart’s 2007 release The Servant of the Manthycore (Double-Edged Publishing) will find a lot of familiar ground in The Tears of Ishtar – in fact the later book contains all of the stories collected in the former, [...]
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Title: The Prow Beast Author: Robert Low Genre: Historical Year: 2010 It was with some sorrow that I came to the last page in Robert Low’s The Prow Beast — the fourth and, sadly (for now?), final book in the excellent Oathsworn saga. Beginning with 2007′s The Whale Road, the Oathsworn series has followed Orm [...]
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Title: Devil Red Author: Joe R. Lansdale Genre: Thriller/Crime Year: 2011 Devil Red is the follow-up to 2009′s Vanilla Ride — the novel that marked the return of Hap and Leonard after an eight year gap. If you’ve never read Lansdale, or heard of Hap and Leonard, then Devil Red, book eight in their continuing [...]
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Title: Swords From the West and Swords From the Desert Author: Harold Lamb (Howard Andrew Jones, ed.) Genre: Historical Adventure Year: 2009 (1910s & 20s) Harold Lamb (1892-1962) is an author in danger of being forgotten. This should not be the case, for a number of reasons. Firstly, Lamb is good — from his historical [...]
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Title: Curse of the Necrarch Author: Steven Savile Genre: Warhammer/Action Fantasy, Horror Year: 2008 The world of Warhammer Fantasy borrows heavily from many sources, everything from Tolkienesque dwarves and Da Vinci-inspired machines, to Moorcockian chaos creatures, a Renaissance-era Holy Roman Empire, and monsters straight out of Dungeons & Dragons. But, maybe because it’s been around [...]
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