Magic is nothing unusual to Valentine Marsh. But when she and her friends join hands to make a wish on New Year's Eve, even Val marvels at the ring of energy and light they mysteriously create. Since her magical grandmother is lying near death in a hospital, Val can only assume that this power of...
Kwestie van eens af te wisselen van klassieke vampieren, dacht ik: tijd om eens een klassieker in het genre boven te halen. We spreken hier eind jaren 1970, láng voor vampieren Twilightgewijs helemaal cutesy-poo waren, en even na Interview with the Vampire.Edward Weyland (niet zijn echte naam) is...
The heroine of The Bronze King, 14-year-old Valentine Marsh, has always known about her grandmother's magical powers. Now, Gran has been chosen to stop a powerful, evil wizard who steals human souls . . . but to do it, she needs Valentine's help!
One of my favourite things about working my way through lists of classic science fiction (or any genre fiction, really) is discovering new authors and stories that lead me beyond the list.The latest example of this for me was Suzy McKee Charnas' 1974 book, A Walk to the End of the World, which fo...
Let's start by determining what this book is not:1. It is not accurately described by the back cover copy on my edition, which says,"Alldera was a Fem, and she knew the horrors of the Holdfast, where labor fems and breeding fems were treated worse than beasts."She knew the legends of the free fe...
To escape the abuse of his now-dead father, Kevin Malone has created his own magical world, the Fayre Farre, and he is Prince Kavian. Amy, a former classmate, arrives in the final days before the epic battle between Prince Kavian and his nemesis. “A sure winner which will be enjoyed by readers wh...
Marta Randall, Pocket Books 1980. “Boobs”: First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , July 1989. “Evil Thoughts”: First published in Seaharp Hotel , ed. Charles Grant, Tor Books 1990. “Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast”: First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , M...
There they were, the mob outside, yelling and jeering and shaking their fists.She was aware of a terrible constriction, as of difficulty in breathing, although it was not really a physical sensation at all but a suffocating horror of seeing the same scene play itself out again.The man threw the c...
Please use note as basis for shopping list. Also no jelly. Bread without jelly = morning without sunshine. Please fix. Mom. PS. You’re on your own tonight, editorial conference.” Which meant a, that she would be having dinner with one of the senior editors, which meant pre...
Eva said incredulously, turning from the mirror to confront her antagonist. “You mean that the past is dead from the moment that time moves onward—unless it’s a story that you need to justify yourself!”“Is that such a bad idea?” Marko demanded. Jess knew that from the audience the pleading gestur...