Picket Town is a simple story with a tight plotline. It involves the adventures of only two heroes with few peripheral characters. The setting is a small town in the woods, isolated from any other humans, immediately rousing our suspicions that Something is Going On. Amanda and Sam discover early in the story that their […]
“The Day the Sun Changed Colours” by Scott Talbot Evans
There is a certain amount of freedom in setting your Sci-Fi novel in 11,984 A.D. Society has changed so much that you don’t really have to follow any of the normal human conventions. Either in plotline, story structure, or grammar. In the tradition of “A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” this is a style of […]
“Morgan le Fay: Small Things and Great” by Jo-Anne Blanco
This is a lovely retelling of the Arthurian Legend from a different point of view. The power of the writing is in the magical, musical descriptive language. The plot abounds in mystical happenings, and mythical creatures from the highest Greek and Roman gods to the smallest pixie play their parts. Fantastical settings, both wonderful and […]
“The Reader of Acheron” by Walter Rhein
This is Dystopian Action Fantasy with a thread of philosophy running through it. Not enough to slow the action down, just enough to give the plot deeper meaning and intensify the conflict. The characters are interesting, but not exceptionally so. Quillion, the soldier-philosopher, is likeable but not lovable. The freed slave, Kikkan, is the most interesting […]