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162 reviews
John Gardner

Gollancz, 2004

Civilization Ruins Everything
This is not the simple tale of what moves the monster to attack the mead hall. Yes, this is the classic Beowulf tale told from Grendel's perspective, but it's no easy narrative of me-against-him. There is an awful lot more going on here. Grendel is the basic human, the proto-human animal stripped of all aspects of civilization, what the human is before civilization has had the chance to ...

House of Suns (Gollancz)

9 reviews
Alastair Reynolds

Gollancz, 2008

Classic Renyolds space opera. Superb!
First off, let my just say that any fan of Reynolds will love this book. This is what makes A.R. so special. Its vast scale and huge timespan combined with a clear and interesting vision about the evolution of human societies over time. And its all presented in a good pace and with a interesting story, with characters you will care about. In short, its never boring. Quite the contrary. As with ...

The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicle)

362 reviews
Patrick Rothfuss

Gollancz, 2008

If you like fantasie this is a MUST. If you don't it's all the same, a must
I'm spanish and bought this book in NYC by chance and in order to have something to read during the flght. What a surprise!! this book is really one of the best I have read. I'm not a fan of Fantasie, I usually prefer Sci-fie and I'm often disapointed by all those books (Harry potter, etc..) with Magicians in the Merlin style and so on, but this one is really fantastic and different. As I said ...

The Colour of Magic

218 reviews
Terry Pratchett

Gollancz, 2008

Excellent!
This is an extraordinary book, an excellent piece of work indeed, so amusing and full of details. And full of magic!! It's amazing to see from how many "near-death experiences" the two main characters get away hahahahhahahaha you can't help but laugh, it is very good. And to think that one of the main characters is a "perfectly ordinary, if somewhat large" piece of luggage hahahahhahahaha thumbs ...

Definitely Dead (Gollancz S.F.)

140 reviews
Charlaine Harris

Gollancz, 2007

Great vampire series
Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6) Charlaine Harris really knows how to write a book, if you like your vampire series with a bit of humor you will like these books, if you like your mysteries with a bit of what we call "Woo Woo" (in other words weird stuff) then you'll like Ms.Harris's Southern Vampire series and if you find you like it find the rest Sookie Stackhouse is a ...

Last Argument Of Kings (Gollancz)

19 reviews
Joe Abercrombie

Gollancz, 2008

Fantastic conclusion to the trilogy
Last Arguments of Kings by Joe Abercrombie is the third, and final, novel in the First Law trilogy. The first book in the trilogy is titled The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One) and the second book is titled Before They Are Hanged (The First Law: Book Two). Mr. Abercrombie is quickly making a name for himself with this trilogy. While there are traditional fantasy elements in this trilogy, it ...

Replay (Fantasy Masterworks)

298 reviews
Ken Grimwood

Gollancz, 2005

Replay
The premise of the book is what we all wonder about as we are going to sleep. What would you change if you could live your life over? Replay provides you the wisdom of deciphering how to live this life with proper persepctive. This read could be a text book for a class in Phsych. Someone needs to make this into a movie...

Sourcery

51 reviews
Terry Pratchett, Vadim Jean

Gollancz, 2008

First class fun!
Terry Pratchett has created Discworld series that are so enticing you cannot put the book down! There are laughs every page where he is making fun of us too!

Revelation Space

144 reviews
Alastair Reynolds

Gollancz, 2008

Interesting but sometimes hard to follow
When I decided to start reading science fiction this is what I started with. What a shock. You need to be able to keep track of several story lines happening in several different decades. After adjusting to this I found myself quite engaged in the story and very drawn into this universe. However, I didn't feel like the universe's background had been adequately introduced. This left me confused ...

The Sign of the Beaver

191 reviews
Elizabeth George Speare

Gollancz, 1984

Great read aloud!
I have used Sign of the Beaver as a read aloud just about every year I have taught! I teach 4th grade, and have always had great reviews from my students. The text and vocabulary are advanced for some fourth graders, so it is a terrific way to expand their vocabulary and knowledge without having frustrated readers. I have collected a class set over the years, allowing every child to read along. I ...

Pushing Ice

51 reviews
Alastair Reynolds

Gollancz, 2008

Next in a long line of wonderful Reynolds space operas...
I must admit that I worried after the wonders of Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, and Absolution Gap that Pushing Ice would be just another novel riding off of the author's original fame. I was greatly happy to find that this was not the case. Pushing Ice is the story of a crew sent in desperation to follow a rouge planet as far as their fuel could take them. But everything they have been ...

The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gollancz)

129 reviews
Scott Lynch

Gollancz, 2007

Best book I've read this year!
Lies of Locke Lamora Without question, one of the best books I've read this year and probably the best book in the genre I've read since I finished the last George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire book. I finished it a few days ago and I'm still excited about it! Lies, by new author Scott Lynch, follows the exploits of Locke Lamora, an orphan who is raised to be a thief. The setting is ...

The Blade Itself (Gollancz)

75 reviews
Joe Abercrombie

Gollancz, 2007

Compulsively Addictive
I was a little worried about ordering and reading this book because I haven't read any fantasy for about twenty years. I had gotten more than a little tired of the formulaic plotting, one-dimensional characters, and the stereotypes that drive the genre. However, when Scott Lynch released "The Lies of Locke Lamora" a few years back, I succumbed to the hype, bought the book, and devoured it over a ...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Millennium SF Masterworks S)

211 reviews
Philip K. Dick

Gollancz, 1999

Competing Future Religions, Animal Life Extinction, Android Pets & More
Androids is my favorite sci-fi book of all time & is the inspiration for one of the best movies of all time, Blade Runner. The movie & book are very different. Androids deals with future competing religions, the extinction of all animal life & humanities' use of android pets, mood enhancing technologies & other aspects that Blade Runner does not even touch. However the "bad guy" Roy's character ...

Rebecca

486 reviews
Dame Daphne Du Maurier

Gollancz, 1989

Here is my heart. . . .
Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA is my favorite book of all time -- bar none. The opening line is famous, but I didn't know that the first time I read it (I was about 14). I just remember the magic that began with the first line: Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderly again. . . . The girl is young, clumsy, exquisitely sensitive. An impoverished relative of a wealthy and ...

Dune

1028 reviews
Frank Herbert

Gollancz, 1999

3 thoughts about "Dune"
Everybody else has already grokked "Dune" to the high heavens, and it definitely deserves all such praise. Here I just want to mention a few thoughts I have about "Dune" that should add to its lustre and help explain (but not explain away) its runaway success. 1) "Dune" is extraordinarily well-written on a literary level. Most sentences have the look of having been polished to a high sheen. ...

The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse (Gollancz)

58 reviews
Robert Rankin

Gollancz, 2003

Not For Everyone, But Worth Giving It A Try
I don't know if I can put this book in the same league as the Discworld and Hitchiker's novels that the author is often compared to, but I found it delightfully hilarious and literally laugh out loud funny. I was traveling quite a bit for work while reading this and found myself not being able to contain myself while reading it. I'm recommended to others and about half couldn't get into it and ...

Eve (Gollancz)

3 reviews
Tony Gonzales

Gollancz, 2008

Dark, but very well written
I haven't written a book review before and I don't have a lot of time so this will be short and sweet. I have to say that this is one of the most well written books I have read in a long time. Even if you have never seen or heard about the computer game, EVE Online, this is just an all around great sci-fi. It always takes two or three chapters for any book to really start drawing me in but ...

Cat's Cradle

370 reviews
Kurt Vonnegut

Gollancz, 1971

As relevant today as it was in the past
The 60's paranoia doesn't get more sharp, more funny and more smart than Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle". But, unfortunately, this portray is still somehow up to date than ever. Published early in that decade, this novel concerns on the fear of a chemical war and the end of the world. One of the characters is a scientist who fathered the Atomic Bomb and also developed something called `ice-nice' ...