Dave Butler, the author of steam punk novel City of the Saints, is one of the most interesting authors I’ve had the opportunity to meet in the recent past. And, probably, the less than recent past, as well. I first ran into Dave Butler when he sat on a panel about J.R.R. Tolkien at Salt Lake […]
Book Review | The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding
2014-05-18 · by ·
Mix together the swashbuckling of The Pirates of the Caribbean, a shade of fast shooting action and espionage–on horseback–of Michael Garrison’s The Wild Wild West, and a bit of the personalities from Ocean’s 11 (pick 1960 or 2001–it doesn’t matter), and drop them all in a world with demons, magic, curses, and airships. That […]
Book Review | City of the Saints by D.J. Butler
2014-03-13 · by ·
If there were a genre for a book that includes the Old West, an alternate American history, a rebel Mormon kingdom, a slave-free Confederacy, more than a bit of steam punk, fantasy, and an all star cast of historical-larger-than-life-and-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction characters, I don’t know what it would be called, but City of the Saints by D.J. Butler has […]
Book Review | The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
2013-05-28 · by ·
Brandon Sanderson‘s creativity seems to know no bounds. It’s no secret that he likes use magical systems for his novels that follow rules. But is it still magic when the magic is so predictable that it’s almost scientific? With The Rithmatist, Sanderson uses his not insubstantial talents to spin a tale about an alternate world […]
