Michael In Hell
Dennis Latham
Y.S. Gazelle Books
Paperback, 216 pages, $16.00 U.S.
Reviewed by Rick Spearman
Michael in Hell began as a short story sent to Isaac Asimov in 1973. Asimov suggested that Dennis Latham develop it into a novel. Latham began writing the novel in 1993. His agent in 1995 assumed that the final draft was too violent, […]

Established in 2007 by the CODES section of RUSA, The Reading List Council seeks to highlight outstanding genre fiction that merits special attention by general adult readers and the librarians who work with them.
The Council, which consists of ten librarians who are experts in readers’ advisory and collection development, select books in eight different […]

I saw the original Lake Placid in a movie theater with the son of a friend of mine and we had a rather good time that afternoon. There was humor, a giant crocodile, and fun characters played by Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, and Betty White. It wasn’t Jaws; it wasn’t a cult classic; […]

Ellen Datlow has edited more than fifty anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, starting with The First Omni Book of Science Fiction in 1983, back when she was fiction editor for Omni, the popular “science fact and fiction” magazine. After the magazine folded in 1998, she went on to edit the webzines […]

The Condemned
David Jack Bell
Delirium Books
Trade paperback, 222 pgs, $16.95, 2008
Reviewed by Steve Vernon
Did you ever stop to consider that maybe this novel has already begun?
The Condemned opens in a future much like our present. America is at war. We’re not told just who we’re at war with nor does it matter. This chilling bit of […]