This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...as we face small trials (Facebook for a day was removing all the links to my blog) or much larger ones (and sparing a thought for former FFB contributor Richard Wheeler, who died in February, and the people killed and terrorized in the events in Christchurch, New Zealand, over the last day).
Patricia Abbott: Sleep While I Sing by L. R. Wright; What It Might Feel Like to Hope by Dorene O'Brien
Paul Bishop: the Gunships series by "Jack Hamilton Teed" (Christopher Lowder)
Les Blatt: Three Witnesses by Rex Stout
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, April 1964, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler; Things to Come, January/February 1955, the catalog of the (Doubleday) Science Fiction Book Club
Brian Busby: The Bright Path to Adventure by Gordon Sinclair
Martin Edwards: Arrogant Alibi by C. Daly King
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: Warren Comics (Creepy and Blazing Combat), October to December 1965, edited by Archie Goodwin
Will Errickson: The Manitou by Graham Masterton
José Ignacio Escribano: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran
Curtis Evans: Swing, Brother, Swing by Ngaio Marsh
Paul Fraser: The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg; Unknown Worlds, June 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
Barry Gardner: Kahawa by Donald Westlake
John Grant: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig; The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
Aubrey Hamilton: Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon
Rich Horton: Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley; PITFCS: Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies edited by Theodore R. Cogswell; Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart;
Jerry House: The Select (aka The Foundation) by F. Paul Wilson
Gabino Iglesias: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
Kate Jackson: three novels by Michael Gilbert;
Death in Store by Jennifer Rowe
Tracy K: Turncoat by Aaron Elkins
Colman Keane: Cast the First Stone and Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin
George Kelley: The Great SF Stories 7 (1945) edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg
Joe Kenney: Cold Iron by "Robert Stone Pryor"
Margot Kinberg: The Division Bell Mystery by Ellen Wilkinson
Rob Kitchin: Winston's War by Michael Dobbs
B. V. Lawson: The Port of London Murders by "Josephine Bell" (Doris Collier Ball)
Evan Lewis: Half Past Mortem by John A. Saxon
Jonathan Lewis: Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
Steve Lewis: The Goodbye Look by "Ross Macdonald" (Kenneth Millar); "Eurema's Dam" by R. A. Lafferty; Lemons Never Lie by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake); "Schroedinger's Kitten" by George Alec Effinger
Mike Lind: Dashiell Hammett, Man of Mystery by Sally Cline
Todd Mason: best of the year horror fiction annuals for 2016
Jess Nevins: some women writers of horror from around the world
John F. Norris: The Flight of the Doves by Walter Macken
Patrick Ohl: In the Best Families by Rex Stout (hosted by Kevin Tipple)
Scott D. Parker: Weird Western Tales, December 1973, edited by Joe Orlando
Matt Paust: The Trail to Seven Pines by Louis L'Amour; Ways of Looking at a Woman by Caroline Hagood
James Reasoner: "Blitzkrieg in the Past" by "John York Cabot" (David Wright O'Brien), Amazing Stories, July 1942, edited by Ray Palmer; All-Western Magazine, August 1936, edited by West F. Peterson
Richard Robinson: A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara
Gerard Saylor: Murdaland, #1 (2007), edited by Michael Lagnas
Jack Seabrook: "One More Mile to Go" by F. J. Smith, Manhunt, June 1956, edited by Scott Meredith
Steven Silver: Convergent Series by Larry Niven
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, July 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith-Lalli
"TomKat": Challenge the Impossible: The Final Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne by Edward D. Hoch
David Vineyard: The Seven Sleepers by Francis Beeding
Almost a peak year, perhaps the peak year, for horror annuals, even with Best British Horror skipping 2016 and 2017, to arrive again (rise from the dead) last year...and with the Jones and Australian annuals arriving some months late for their target year.
This one not published till 2017, and the last so far.
- Publication: The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015
- Editors: Liz Grzyb, Talie Helene
- Date: 2017-04-04
- Publisher: Ticonderoga Publications
- Price: A$35.00
- apparently uncredited cover artwork purchased from an image-bank.
This week's books, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles. ...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...
Patricia Abbott: The Veiled One by Ruth Rendell
Paul Bishop: the Hatchet series by "Knox Gordon" (Michael Kasner)
Les Blatt: Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot; Chicks on the Case interview
Elgin Bleecker: Last Year's Man by Paul D. Brazill
John Boston: Amazing: Fact and Science Fiction Stories, November 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Ben Boulden: Novels reissued in 2018
Brian Busby: The Arch-Satirist by Frances de Wolfe Fenwick
Bob Byrne: Not Quite Dead Enough, a Nero Wolfe novel by Rex Stout
Martin Edwards: The Chief Inspector's Statement by Maurice Proctor; The Birdcage by Victor Canning
Peter Enfantino: Atlas (pre-Marvel) Comics Horror, February 1952
Peter Enfantino and Jack Seabrook: DC War Comics, July 1974
Will Errickson: Child of Hell by William Dobson
José Ignacio Escribano: Maigret Defends Himself by Georges Simenon (translated by Howard Curtis)
Curtis Evans: Black as He's Painted by Ngaio Marsh
Paul Fraser: Astounding Science-Fiction, July 1943, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.
John Grant: The Archivist by Martha Cooley
Aubrey Hamilton: Body Scissors by Jerome Doolittle
Rich Horton: The Blind Worm by Brian M. Stableford; Seed of the Dreamer by Emil Petaja; Trading in Danger by Elizabeth Moon; "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
Jerry House: The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: Sixteenth Series edited by Edward L. Ferman; Hopalong Cassidy, June 1948
Kate Jackson: Death in Store by Jennifer Rowe; Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
Nick Jones: Trilogy in Jeopardy by Henry Kane; Calamity in Kent by John Rowland; The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler (UK first editions)
Tracy K: Tears of Autumn and The Shanghai Factor by Charles McCarry
Colman Keane: They Don't Dance Much by James Ross(Elgin Bleecker's recent review)
George Kelley: The Century's Best Horror Fiction edited by John Pelan
Joe Kenney: The Godfather Killer by Dan Brennan
Margot Kinberg: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz; International Women's Day
Rob Kitchin: Clinch by Martin Holmén; 1000 reviews
Richard Lamb: Tribute to My Father: Hugh Lamb
B.V. Lawson: Dover One by Joyce Porter
Evan Lewis: Davy Crockett, Frontier Fighter (1951); True Crime Comics, May 1947; Otto Penzler Auctions: Dashiell Hammett; Raymond Chandler
Steve Lewis: "Shaman" by John Shirley, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1988, edited by Gardner Dozois; The Dutch Shoe Mystery by "Ellery Queen" (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee); "Peaches for Mad Molly" by Steven Gould, Analog Science Fact and Fiction, February 1988, edited by Stanley Schmidt
Francis M. Nevins: The Black Angel by Cornell Woolrich
Jess Nevins: Women writers who influenced H. P. Lovecraft...
John F. Norris: They Walk in Darkness by Gerald Verner
Scott D. Parker: Mascarada Pass by William Colt MacDonald
Matt Paust: Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel
James Reasoner: The Derelict of Skull Shoal: a Doc Savage novella by "Kenneth Robeson" (Lester Dent)
Richard Robinson: The Case of the Substitute Face (a Perry Mason novel) by Erle Stanley Gardner
Gerard Saylor: The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales
Steven Silver: "Can These Bones Live?" by Ted Reynolds, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1979, edited by Stanley Schmidt; Death's Master by Tanith Lee
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic: Stories of Imagination, September 1963, edited by Cele Goldsmith Lalli
Kerrie Smith: A Stranger in the Family by Robert Barnard
Kevin Tipple: The Branson Beauty by Claire Booth
"TomCat": Death Behind the Door by Norman MacClure
Katherine Tomlinson: Once Upon a Star edited by Anthea Lawson
Danielle Torres: Nothing but the Night by John Williams
David Vineyard: "The Great Ego" by Norman Daniels, Startling Stories, Spring 1944, edited by Oscar J. Friend
This week's books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be warned away from); certainly, most weeks we have a few not at all forgotten titles...if I've missed your review or someone else's, please let me know in comments...as we face small trials (Facebook for a day was removing all the links to my blog) or much larger ones (and sparing a thought for former FFB contributor Richard Wheeler, who died in February, and the people killed and terrorized in the events in Christchurch, New Zealand, over the last day). 
