Back in the full swing

Well I am back (as you’d probably figured) I had a great time kiting on the beach and I managed to read about 600 pages of fantasy works (mostly The Warrior Prophet). Now all that remains for me is to get my head down and write reviews of both TWP and Kemp’s Dawn of Night, with the first being mindblowing and the second very good as well. Just different types of books, so they will get a different kind of treatment.
Meanwhile, as a big Erikson fan I would like to direct you to Jay Tomio’s blog where he put up an excellent review of Night of Knives. I wished I could reviews the way he does, be sure to check it out to see what I mean. Actually it was kind of because of these types of reviews I got all excited about the reviewing thing, in a way some reviews really do honour the book and that is great to see. Same goes for Larry at the OFblog and Robert over at Fantasybookcritic, I sometimes find myself rereading their reviews over again (plus the pace they put out reviews is astonishing as well).

On the other hand, we have something of world premiere over at FantasyBookSpot, Damon conducted the very first audio interview with Alex Bledsoe author of the “The Sword-Edged Blonde” . Really cool stuff, exciting to see how the audio interview thing will unfold. Check out the thread here.

And since I am plugging here anyway, why not give dump to the new synopsis of Richard Morgan’s fantasy debut, “The Steel Remains”. Full synopsis over at UK SF Book News. Looks like Gollancz is publishing great stuff in the near future, can’t wait to see if it lives up to its expectations.