New scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of June 27

There are some really fantastic new releases this week including Kraken, the much anticipated new novel from China Mieville and Mark Charan Newton's debut novel, Nights of Villjamur , which has already been released in the UK and has received many positive reviews.There are a couple of books that I've never heard of before but look like they could be really good; Heartless by Anne Elisabeth Stengl (I really like the cover of this one though it...

A humorous book cover blog

There has been a lot of discussion lately on book blogs about book covers and frankly they don't really interest me. But there is one blog devoted to book covers that I do follow regularly because they it's just really funny, and you will find some of the craziest scifi and fantasy covers here, along with humorous comments about them.If you are looking for a good laugh then check out Good Show S...

Interview with Scott Lynch at Dragon Droppings

News from Scott Lynch has been pretty scarce lately so I was glad to come across this recent interview with him over at Dragon Droppings. If you are a fan of Lynch's Gentelman's Bastard series then you will probobly enjoy this interview as well. And if you haven't read The Lies of Lock Lamora I highly recommend it, as well as the audio version of its sequel, Red Seas Under Red Skies ( I get the sense that this book may be enjoyed more in audio format than book format, and I personally loved i...

Follow Friday

I haven't done one of these blog hops in a while but as I saw that Parajunkee started a new one I thought I would give it a try. If you are new to my blog then welcome and please take a look around. I have book reviews (though this week I've been doing more reading then reviewing), lists of new releases and random posts about things that interest me, though I do try to make them at least vaguely related to scifi and fantasy. On Fridays I also often...

An Israeli Spy Shop

I had to go into Jerusalem today to run some errands and I stopped off at small shopping center to grab something to eat. It's been a while since I had been in this particular mall so I walked around a bit, checking out the stores, when I came across the coolest store ever.From the outside it didn't look particularly interesting, just some security cameras for sale, until I took a closer look at the smaller items displayed in the window and then...

A post Father's Day post: Where have all the fathers gone?

Yesterday, in honor of Father's Day, Geek Dad at Wired.Com posted a list of his top favorite fathers from science fiction and fantasy. I did not actually recognize many of the names on this list, and I think most were from TV shows movies (which I'm not so familiar with) but considering the fact that both Geppetto and Mr.Incredible were included I got the sense that the author of the post was scrambling a bit to come up with some names.And so I decided...

New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of June 20

Once again I seem to have left out of my previous week's list a couple of new releases, so I have tacked them on to this week's. One of these, The Left Hand of Darkness, I have been hearing about for months now from many different bloggers but the reviews are so mixed that I haven't yet decided if I will be giving this book a try.For this week we have the much anticipated fantasy anthology, Swords and Dark Magic, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou...