By Robert M. Tilendis, on May 20th, 2012
That seems to be where we find ourselves this morning, going through the review bin.
There’s a certain kind of humor that makes its home in the land of the bizarre, in which the surreal is played for laughs, as in Good Omens, that classic send-up of just about everything from Terry Pratchett and . . . → Read More: Real, Surreal, and Somewhere in Between
By Robert M. Tilendis, on May 20th, 2012
Reap the East Wind An Ill Fate Marshalling A Path to Coldness of Heart
Somehow, and I’m not sure how it happened, I managed not to read Glen Cook’s second Dread Empire Trilogy back in the day. I did read the first trilogy, with great enthusiasm. Indeed, A Shadow of All Night Falling may . . . → Read More: Glen Cook: The Second Dread Empire Trilogy
By Robert M. Tilendis, on July 13th, 2011
Surrender to the Will of the Night is the third volume in Glen Cook’s The Instrumentalities of the Night, and everything I said about the first two volumes holds true here. It’s just become refined, distilled, and that much more engaging.
Piper Hecht has almost forgotten that he is Else Tage, Sha-Lug warrior slave . . . → Read More: Glen Cook: Surrender to the Will of the Night
By Robert M. Tilendis, on March 7th, 2011
The Runestaff is the rousing finish to Michael Moorcock’s classic Dorian Hawkmoon tetralogy.
I had to say that. The Runestaff is, like its predecessors in the series, pulp fiction of the highest order, and even more over the top than the books that came before. You’ve almost got to give it that kind of . . . → Read More: Michael Moorcock: The Runestaff
