To marry up fantasy fiction with a well-known folk tale and make it accessible to a young audience while still keeping it interesting for adults is a daunting task of Arthurian proportion—and one performed with grace and charm by Basil... Read More

“It all seemed such a good idea at first,” explains Judas Iscariot of his betrayal of Christ. Judas’s tortured musings make up one of the twenty-one “snapshots” of life with Jesus found in David Gurney’s book, Just Like Us... Read More

Science fiction fans have to love a bad guy who likes the thought of being worshipped. Such is the character of Lozerick, who, like his father and grandfather before him, is one of a piratical band of mining engineers, poachers, slavers,... Read More

“Now we, the Turks, have become the enemy in our own country,” laments a refugee leading a convoy of villagers fleeing the advancing Serbian army. Cries similar to this one spoken by a character in Omer Ertur’s stunning and very... Read More

No book can begin to describe the pain, the sorrow, the anguish of finding your child dead one morning from a drug overdose. Graham E. Fuller has suffered that greatest of all losses. Rather than dwell on the hurt and torment of such a... Read More

Freshman author Madhav Gokhlay is to be congratulated for concocting a solid, tense, and quite believable political thriller involving rogue CIA operatives, industrial espionage, a dirty bomb, terrorists, and a Pakistani general who may... Read More

The story of boys who become fast friends in peacetime only to find themselves adversaries once war breaks out is a tale that has been told many times, but rarely so believably and authentically as Philip Baker does in his World War II... Read More

In so many ways, "The Sons of God" is the equivalent of a 1960s B-movie. With its human sacrifice, pagan rites, plots to breed a master race, conspiracy theories, and helpless damsels in distress, Greg Banks’ religiously spiced,... Read More