Reviews for the Year 2006

 

The Re-Readable Collection  Of  SF&F
Selected by  Jacqueline Lichtenberg

2006 Reviews Posted
 

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Year 2006 Titles Well Worth Re-Reading

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Title of the Review

Books Reviewed

January 2006

Neptune: The Reality Factor

 

List Price:

$24.00

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Paperback March 2006

 

 

 

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Reissued Dec 2005 as A Soul of Steel

 

 

List Price:   $7.99

 

 

 

 

 

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Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King, Bantam HC, July 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes Series by Carole Nelson Douglas

Good Night, Mr. Holmes (June 1991);

 

The Adventuress (May 1992);

 

 

Irene At Large (Tor July 1992); retitled A Soul of Steel (Dec. 2005)

 

 

Femme Fatale (Sept 2003),

 

 

Spider Dance (Dec 2004) – all by Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge Mystery except as noted.

All these novels are about 400 pages, reasonable size print.





February 2006

  Neptune: The Romance Factor and the Tower of Babel

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Threshhold TV Series on CBS from ST:Enterprise producer Brannon Braga -- 2005-6 First Season

The Chorillan Cycle, Azuli Eyes, Scout’s Pride, and By Fire And Stars, by Michelle L. Levigne, Awe-Struck Ebooks  http://www.awe-struck.net/   

Sins of the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon, St. Martin’s PB, July 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Challenge and The Dare, by Susan Kearney, Tor Romance PBs, Feb & July 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hunter’s Moon and

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moon’s Web by C. T. Adams and Cathy L Clamp, Tor Romance, Dec. 2004, Aug. 2005

March 2006   Neptune: The Bigotry Factor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Magical Worlds of Narnia, a Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts by David Colbert, Berkley, 2005

 

 

 

 

Full Wolf Moon by K. L. Nappier, Double Dragon Publishing Company, e-book download on amazon.com, Oct. 2004.

 

 

 

 

Straight Into Darkness by Faye Kellerman, Warner HC, Aug 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Survivor In Death by J. D. Robb, Berkley Romantic Suspense, PB Sept 2005

 

April 2006

Neptune: The Decision Factor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proof Positive: Evidence of the Paranormal by Scifi Channel

High Risk by Jane Toombs, Champagne Books, June 2005

The Ghost of Shady Lane by Dotti Enderle, Fortune Teller’s Club novel, Llewellyn, May 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Dance by Linda Joy Singleton, Llewllyn June 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fire Me Up by Katie MacAlister, Signet Eclipse Paranormal Romance, May 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hard Day’s Knight by Katie MacAlister, Signet Eclipse Contemporary Romance, January 2005

 


May 2006   Neptune: The Disinformation Factor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Weekend Pass" E-Ring NBC Prime Time TV Series

States of Grace a Novel of The Count Saint-Germain by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tor HC Sept. 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Song In The Dark, The Vampire Files, by P. N. Elrod, ACE HC, Sept 2005

June 2006

The Identity Adventure: Saturn Vs. Neptune

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This is a set of novels all in the same universe.  Initially using single POV, they spread out into multiple Points of View and some readers became more pleased while others got lost.  

Stardoc by S. L. Viehl, RoC Science Fiction, 2000

 

 


Stardoc II, Beyond Varallan
by S. L. Viehl, RoC SF, 2000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Endurance,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Shockball,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Eternity Row,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bio Rescue by S. L. Viehl, RoC HC, July 2004,

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afterburn by S. L. Viehl, RoC HC, Aug. 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rebel Ice by S. L. Viehl, RoC pb, Jan. 2006

Many readers found this disappointing, I believe, because the floating point of view tells too many unrelated stories -- leaving no room to finish the one the readers have been anticipating since Stardoc. 

July 2006

 

  View From the Grease Pit Looking Up at Reality

http://www.myJLI.com for courses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Kabalah of Time, course by JLI, Spring 2006

 

Heaven Exposed by Tzvi Freeman, Class One Press, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tour of the Merrimack: The Myriad, by R. M. Meluch, DAW pb 2006

This is actually the sequel -- read MYRIAD second.  First read WOLF STAR (below).

 

 

 

 

 

Tour of the Merrimack: Wolf Star by R. M. Meluch, DAW HC, Jan 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretender, 8th in the Foreigner Universe, by C. J. Cherryh, DAW HC March 2006. 

August 2006   Mercury, Truth and Communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-book

 

 

 

 

 

Smallville TV Series, Episode #3-18, Truth.

That's a Third season episode.  2005-2006 is the 5th Season.  4th Season DVDs are now available. 

Strong story arc with deep and profound themes worked out over many episodes.  It's worth catching reruns if you've missed it. 

 

 

Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway, Berkley, May 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Touch the Dark by Karen Chance, RoC pb, June 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Who (the 9th Doctor) on Sci Fi channel 2006

Played by Christopher Eccleston. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Silver Azuli Chorillan Cycle book 5 by Michelle Levigne, Awe-struck.net , 2006

 

The Thirteenth House by Sharon Shinn, Ace HC, March 2006

 
September 2006   Magical Power Defined

E-book from awe-struck.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

House of the Rose: Book II, House of Memory, by Michaela August, awe-struck.net e-book 2006

 

Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher, RoC HC, May 2006
This series hit the NYTimes Bestseller List on promotion of the summer 2006 TV movie on the Sci Fi Channel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Kiss of Fate by Mary Jo Putney, Ballantine Books HC July 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

Traitor To The Blood, Barb and J. C. Hendee, RoC HC, Jan. 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deryni Checkmate, Katherine Kurtz, ACE HC reprint Dec. 2005.

 
October 2006   The Nature of the Supernatural

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blood Rites Book 6 of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, RoC, August 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dead Beat, The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, RoC pb May 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Touch of Evil, by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp, Tor, March 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moon Called by Patricia Briggs, Ace Fantasy pb, Jan. 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Night Life by Rob Thurman, RoC Fantasy pb, March 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buffy The Vampire Slayer – TV Series on WB then UPN

 

 

 

 

 

Supernatural – new prime time TV Series on the WB Network, 2006.  Note WB and USA Networks merge later this year and all surviving shows go to a new channel. 

War For The Oaks, by Emma Bull, Tor Teen, 2004

November 2006

Your Life as a Work Of Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dragon Champion by E. E. Knight, RoC, Dec. 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daughter of Ancients, Bk4 of The Bridge of D’Arnath by Carol Berg, RoC Fantasy, Sept. 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Scandal in Bohemia, &

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapel Noir, &

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Castle Rouge, all by Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge Mystery pb, Feb 1994, Sept. 2002, Sept. 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karavans by Jennifer Roberson, DAW Fantasy HC April 2006

 
December 2006 Neptune, Klipot and Fighting Evil

 

 

 

Heaven Exposed was reviewed here in July 2006.  Scroll up for that column. 

 

 

Medalon by Jennifer Fallon, Tor Fantasy, November 2004.

Available as an e-book for even more money than the pb. new.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also see Tzvi Freeman's online essays, in particular (among many) the one referred to in this column:

 

 

 



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