http://calitreview.com Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:18:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/5158 http://calitreview.com/5158#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:23:08 +0000 Katherine Tomlinson http://calitreview.com/?p=5158 http://calitreview.com/5158/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4778 http://calitreview.com/4778#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:11:51 +0000 Ryan Van Cleave http://calitreview.com/?p=4778 http://calitreview.com/4778/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4740 http://calitreview.com/4740#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:35:33 +0000 Ryan Van Cleave http://calitreview.com/?p=4740 http://calitreview.com/4740/feed 1 http://calitreview.com/4653 http://calitreview.com/4653#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:22:45 +0000 Katherine Tomlinson http://calitreview.com/?p=4653 The Big Machine is what urban fantasy looks like when it’s grown up and the writer isn’t relying on paranormal clichés to flesh out an epic tale of good versus evil. Not that you can pigeon-hole this novel—it’s a dizzying slipstream mashup of genres and memes and tropes and legends wrapped around a cross-cultural love story. This is a story that has depth, richness; a heart and a soul. Above all, it has a soul.]]> http://calitreview.com/4653/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/4491 http://calitreview.com/4491#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:10:41 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4491 we are. The humans in the film are horrid, cruel stereotypes, laughing as alien eggs pop like popcorn, shooting creatures at random, and torturing an innocent man to discover the meaning of the alien weapons. The aliens (one of whom is Christopher Johnson, a decidedly nondescript and very American name) are scammed, abused and tortured, living in a horrendous slum. Unlike in Independence Day, The Day the Earth Stood Still, or any number of other self-congratulatory sci-fi films, we are not fighting to save ourselves from these unthinkably pitiful creatures. We’re using, torturing, and abusing them. ]]> http://calitreview.com/4491/feed 13 http://calitreview.com/4002 http://calitreview.com/4002#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:57:41 +0000 Ed Voves http://calitreview.com/?p=4002 The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from Russia. By turns serious and screwball, it combines sly, sometimes campy, humor with a yearning for personal insight and a good day's sleep. The Stranger is an episodic quest set in a parallel universe, in which a Sherlock Holmes-Dr. Watson duo combat malign magicians and search for the perfect restaurant.]]> http://calitreview.com/4002/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3820 http://calitreview.com/3820#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:17:37 +0000 Ryan Van Cleave http://calitreview.com/?p=3820 Blood, Smoke, and The Keeper’s Chronicles books (or even the Blood Ties show on Lifetime) will find this stand-alone modern urban fantasy right in line with what they’ve come to expect from her. For those of us not so familiar with Huff’s work, a warning: This is not your usual fantasy fare. Not in the least.]]> http://calitreview.com/3820/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/3201 http://calitreview.com/3201#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 14:33:23 +0000 Ryan Van Cleave http://calitreview.com/?p=3201 Turn Coat is the 11th installment in the story of Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, Chicago’s first (and only) Wizard private investigator. Jim Butcher has often said he has enough ideas to take the series well into the twenties, though he’s smart enough to provide an “in” for every book such that new readers can join up at anytime without starting at the beginning (or watching the interesting but short-lived Sci-Fi Channel Series The Dresden Files).]]> http://calitreview.com/3201/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/740 http://calitreview.com/740#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:42:46 +0000 Julie Ellam http://calitreview.com/?p=740 The Stone Gods, is a science-fiction novel-within-a-novel adventure and might come as a pleasant surprise to the fans who have seen her through the days of feast then famine.]]> http://calitreview.com/740/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/263 http://calitreview.com/263#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:45:21 +0000 Alex Dueben http://calitreview.com/2007/10/02/william-gibson-the-father-of-cyberpunk/ http://calitreview.com/263/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/99 http://calitreview.com/99#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:52:39 +0000 John Holt http://calitreview.com//non-fiction-reviews/the-athena-factor-by-w-michael-gear/ http://calitreview.com/99/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/34 http://calitreview.com/34#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:22:21 +0000 Pedro Blas Gonzalez http://calitreview.com//essays/fahrenheit-451-avatar-of-the-new-man/ http://calitreview.com/34/feed 1