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from Pyr) adapt to the strange environment and eventually find out where their true loyalties lie. I was very reminded of Robert Heinlein’s juveniles written in the fifties but with a well- researched twenty-first century background. Fun.
If you were one of the few people who saw the movie John Carter last spring or enjoyed Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars on which it is based, then
you’ll love the continu- ing adventures of Jane Carter, a fun female version of an adven- turer from Earth who can jump really high. Nasthan Lang pits the ex-marine, biker chick against the evil priest-
hood who have stolen the water in Swords of Waar (paper from Night Shade books). Yes there are ancient weapons, di- rigible sailing ships, lots of fighting, and a lover who hates Jane picking him up and jumping out of danger. She also has to face the ancient John Carter who wants Waar to stay bar- baric. Light fun. Tina Con- nolly mixes Jane Eyre and Beauty and the Beast with a tale of woman,
wounded in the war with the fey so she has to wear a mask of Ironskin (hard from Tor). Because of the mask, Jane is un- able to keep a job as a teacher so she takes job as governess to a magi- cal plastic surgeon, Ro-
chart who reshapes the faces of the very rich. His daughter is so fey-cursed that she lifts objects with her mind instead of her hands. But within the manor and the woods surrounding it are the secrets of the Fey and the real reason for the war. I gulped the book down in a day, but was vaguely dissatisfied with the ending. Dean R. Koontz aid- ed richly by illustrator Phil Parks tells a tale of the magi- cal Odd- kins (hard from Warner Books), toys designed to be a special friend to children who need one. With their toymaker dead they need to get to his heir before the evil toys in the basement get their evil toymaker who
was just released from prison. Unlike the toys of Toy Story, these toys do interact with real people for fun results. The fight in the toy department of the department store is not to be missed. Kevin Hearne and Luke Daniels have an Aticus nov- elette in which he has dinner with Odin in a fancy Norwegian restaurant to come to terms after his attack on the Aesir to help a fiend kill Thor. Two Ravens
and One Crow (ebook from Del Rey) is a nice short addition to s fun series.
David Wenzil and Charles Dixon have cre- ated a graphic novel ver- sion of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit (trade from
Del Rey).
Open Road Integrated Media has reprinted Elizabeth Hand’s Award winning Waking the Moon which I never read when it was published in the nineties. Solidly in Anne Rice territory, it tells of the return of an ancient goddess de- throned in prehistorical times by the patriar- chal gods that brought civilization and an end to male sacrifice. The 76th Anniversary Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, Phil- con, will be on
November 18 - 20, 2011 in the Crown Plaza Hotel, Cherry Hill, NJ. The Principal Speaker is Catherynne Valente. It’s $50 for the weekend, but there are day rates. Al- ways fun. I’ll be there. Dr. Henry Lazarus is a local Dentist and the au- thor of A Cycle of Gods (Wolfsinger Publications) and Unnaturally Female (Smashwords)
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