GIVEAWAY: Eternal Sky by Elizabeth Bear

There are a very few authors who get me to lose my ever loving shit every time they publish a book, or look in my general direction. (“Wow, Sarah,” you say. “That is the most professional thing you’ve ever said in the history of your website.”) Elizabeth Bear is one of those authors. On April…

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Not A Review: Afterparty – Daryl Gregory

About the Book It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church…

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Books I’m Eyeing

Well, I meant to get this posted much earlier today and failed in an epic way. I decided to sleep last night instead of writing posts for the website. I apologize. Anyway… My giveaway of Blood and Iron and The Barrow has ended. One of my coworkers picked a random number between 1-81 (which is…

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A Turn of Light – Julie E. Czerneda

About the Book The village of Marrowdell is an isolated pioneer community, but it is also the place where two worlds overlap, and at the turn of light–sunset–the world of magic known as the Verge can briefly be seen. Jenn Nalynn belongs to both Verge and Marrowdell, but even she doesn’t know how special she…

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The Lascar’s Dagger – Glenda Larke

About the Book Faith will not save him. Saker appears to be a simple priest, but in truth he’s a spy for the head of his faith. Wounded in the line of duty by a Lascar sailor’s blade, the weapon seems to follow him home. Unable to discard it, nor the sense of responsibility it…

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Gemsigns – Stephanie Saulter

About the Book Humanity stands on the brink. Again. Surviving the Syndrome meant genetically modifying almost every person on the planet. But norms and gems are different. Gems may have the superpowers that once made them valuable commodities, but they also have more than their share of the disabled, the violent and the psychotic. After…

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Books I’m Eyeing

This week my giveaway for two copies of Night Owls has ended. I decided I could randomly choose two winners myself, or I could assign everyone who entered a number and have two people at my work (who know absolutely nothing about my website) pick two numbers. The two winners (as chosen by two kind…

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