Yes, my friends, I’m announcing the addition of another wonderful author to Triumph Over Tragedy. Michael Stackpole is a bestselling author, and one that I admire greatly. Stackpole was one of the first authors I read when I started really getting into fantasy. His books are well known and his fans are numerous and ever…

Hey, what good is a blog if I can’t use it to promote my own projects, on occasion? I realize I talk about Triumph Over Tragedy constantly these days, but this project really means a lot to me and I’m incredibly emotionally invested in it. We have some fantastic authors who have donated time and…

About the Book A tour de force debut novel from a former CIA counter-terrorism officer, A Once Crowded Sky fuses the sensibility of bombastic, comic-book-style storytelling with modern literary fiction to bring to life a universe of super men stripped of their powers, newly mortal men forced to confront danger in a world without heroes. The superheroes…

Every SFF fan worth his shirt has heard of Timothy Zahn – the incredible Hugo Award winner. The man who pumps out high quality novels and has droves of fans. Yeah, you know exactly who I’m talking about. And you can probably understand why Triumph Over Tragedy is beyond thrilled to welcome him (and his…

About the Book It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they’ve made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden…

I’m taking a slight detour from my day dedicated to Iain M. Banks to announce another wonderful author joining the ranks of Triumph Over Tragedy. Unfortunately I haven’t read any of Buckell’s books yet (though I plan on changing that) and all I know is that he grew up on a houseboat (which I learned…

About the Book The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances’ foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings…

Today marks the 25th anniversary for the Culture series by Iain M. Banks. Banks’ Culture novels have stretched and redefined the limits of science fiction. He’s managed to both make science fiction accessible and interesting to new readers, while maintaining and nurturing his fan base with an ever expanding world that plays on unique, deeper…

Tim Marquitz is an author I thank Twitter for. You see, it was a Twitter discussion with two fellow bloggers (Bastard Books and Only The Best SciFi) that got me reading his books. That first book turned out to be my slippery slope. I fell in love with his writing and his fantastic twist on…

Life has been hectic, to say the least. My cancer is back. My back surgery hasn’t ended the way I wanted it too, and now I’ve sprained my foot. That all sucks and I’m so stressed that reviewing has been hard for me recently. However, it’s not all bad. I’m helping edit my first two…