recent reviews:
- Donaldson, Stephen R.: Lord Foul's Bane 6/2008 I've been reading Lord Foul's Bane lately, the first of Stephen R. Donaldson's epic fantasy series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, which I picked up in hardcover at the last library sale, drawn in by the "S.C. Wyeth" jacket illustrations (they reminded me of Richard Pellegrino's cover art for Jay Lake's Trial of Flowers by way of Maxfield Parrish). Lord Foul's Bane is essentially, to borrow a term from Farah Mendelsohn, a portal-quest fantasy...
- Asimov, Isaac: Cosmic Critiques 4/2007 Asimov and Greenberg present ten short science fiction tales, each of which is followed by Ansen Dibell's explicit examples of what makes each succeed as fiction.