FICTION
Released: June 29, 2010
"Likely reaction: raised eyebrows, head-scratching bewilderment."
New, hefty urban fantasy with a London setting--sort of--from Miéville (
The City & The City, 2009, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 10, 2009
"Very dark and very scary, with no simple answers provided--fantasy for grown-ups, in other words, and very satisfying indeed."
Grossman (
Codex, 2004, etc.) imagines a sorcery school whose primary lesson seems to be that bending the world to your will isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 12, 2006
"A literate, ironic, strangely tasty treat for fans of 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, The Last Man on Earth and other treasures of the zombie/counterzombie genre."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2004
"Sharp-edged humor--and wonderfully executed. "
Pratchett satirizes the modern telecom business in a deeply satisfying comedy about a man sent to a fate worse than death: the post office.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 8, 2004
"An instant classic, one of the finest fantasies ever written."
Rival magicians square off to display and match their powers in an extravagant historical fantasy being published simultaneously in several countries, to be marketed as Harry Potter for adults.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 28, 2002
"Still, it's a welcoming and amusing place to pass a few hours."
An unusually sure-footed first novel, this literary folly serves up a generally unique stew of fantasy, science fiction, procedural, and cozy literary mystery--but in the end is more dancing bear than ballet.
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