There are all sorts of Fantasies about someone who suddenly discovers that elves and ogres and things that go bump in the night have been living among us all along. Some of the most interesting ones involve an organization designed to hide this situation. Slipping over into Action Adventure-Conspiracy Theory, one sub-genre includes a government […]
“A Premature Apocalypse” by Dan Sofer
This is Book III of the “Dry Bones Society” trilogy, in which Dan Sofer continues the stumbling and incongruous progress of Moshie Karlin, resurrected (first book) and newly-elected (second book) Prime Minister of Israel, as he tries to shepherd his country towards the End of Days (hence the title). In which we therefore must get […]
“Heartsong” by Annie Douglass Lima
Heartsong is a Sci-Fi novel of the subgenre that might be called “Initial contact with alien race.” If you’re willing to buy the rather questionable premise that sets off the problem – the decision by earth authorities not to contact the alien race they are intruding upon – the rest of the plotline is very […]