Articles by Rob H. Bedford

About Rob H. Bedford (33 Articles)

Rob H. Bedford writes The Completeist Column and curates Mind Melds here at SF Signal. Elsewhere, he is the Lead Book reviewer for SFFWorld, where he is also a Moderator in their discussion forums. In addition to over a decade’s worth of reviews at SFFWorld, his reviews and articles have also appeared at Tor.com and in the San Francisco/Sacramento Book.

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Eric Brown’s BENGAL STATION Trilogy

Eric Brown has written & published just about one novel per year since his first in 1992. Many of those novels have published through Solaris Books, including his Bengal [Read more]

January 15, 2015 // 3 Comments

MIND MELD: What 2015 Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books Are You Looking Forward to Reading?

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Q: What 2015 SFFH books are you looking forward to reading? (Probably the most straight-forward Mind Meld question [Read more]

January 7, 2015 // 23 Comments

Book Review: SPECIES IMPERATIVE by Julie Czerneda

Julie Czerneda has been churning out Hard Science Fiction novels for the better part of the last decade-and-a-half for DAW books. One thing I’ve always thought and said [Read more]

December 18, 2014 // 3 Comments

MIND MELD: What Are Your Annual Holiday Genre Traditions?

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This week, we asked our esteemed panelists the following question: Q: What Genre Holiday traditions to you partake [Read more]

December 3, 2014 // 4 Comments

Joshua Palmatier’s THRONE OF AMENKOR Trilogy

I’m taking another short trip into the past for this installment of The Completist, only about ten years have passed since the publication of the first book in this series [Read more]

November 19, 2014 // 2 Comments

BOOK REVIEW: Frostborn by Lou Anders

REVIEW SUMMARY: Lou Anders’s debut novel for young readers is an engaging and fun fantasy adventure. Younger readers will enjoy the novel and find identifiable characters [Read more]

November 5, 2014 // 2 Comments

MIND MELD: Which Non-Horror Novel/Writer/Movie Spooked You the Most?

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This is a double-edged question about a writer/book who/that evoked that emotion of fear in you. Not a horror [Read more]

October 29, 2014 // 3 Comments

The Completist Looks at THE SWAN’S WAR Series by Sean Russell

Sean Russell was a fairly prolific Canadian fantasy writer who, over the course of eight years (1991 through 1998) churned out unique fantasies which blended fantasy together [Read more]

October 16, 2014 // 2 Comments

On My Radar: THE INHERITANCE TRILOGY OMNIBUS by N.K. Jemisin, THE HELLSBLOOD BRIDE by Chuck Wendig, GEMINI CELL by Myke Cole

These three books publishing at the start of 2015 (among others) have piqued my interest. Right, because I don’t own enough books to read already. Related posts: ON MY [Read more]

October 3, 2014 // 5 Comments

MIND MELD: Books That Make Us Shake Our Heads at Other Readers

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] An inevitability of reading many books (and subsequently reviewing books) is feeling disconnected when reading a [Read more]

September 24, 2014 // 18 Comments

Faith in the Stars: THE SPARROW and CHILDREN OF GOD by Mary Doria Russell

Nearly twenty years ago a debut novel took the genre world by storm, at least in terms of awards. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, BSFA, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and [Read more]

September 4, 2014 // 11 Comments

MIND MELD: What’s Your Take on Author Legacies? Should Unfinished Series Remain Unfinished?

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Brandon Sanderson famously finished Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time while writers like Roger Zelazny [Read more]

August 20, 2014 // 4 Comments

Robert Buettner’s JASON WANDER/ORPHANGE Series

Most of these columns have focused on trilogies, some on duologies. This installment focuses on the longest book series I’ve coverd so far: five books. However, these books [Read more]

August 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Completist: THE LIVESHIP TRADERS by Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb (penname for Megan Lindholm) is a globally recognized, acclaimed writer. Her tales of Fitzchivalry Farseer are some of the most beloved fantasies on the shelves. [Read more]

July 24, 2014 // 3 Comments

MIND MELD: Authors You Havent Read But Want to Read

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This week we asked our participants to tell us about authors & books that they keep intending to read by [Read more]

July 16, 2014 // 13 Comments

Why You Should Read Karin Lowachee’s WARCHILD Books

Here at the Completist, I’ve been hemming and hawing about whether I should include certain series because of their availability (or lack thereof) to readers. After some [Read more]

June 26, 2014 // 7 Comments

MIND MELD: How Long Do You Have A Book Before You Read It?

[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This week we asked our participants about their reading habits: Q: How long do you have a book before you read it? [Read more]

June 11, 2014 // 16 Comments

The PEEPS duology by Scott Westerfeld

Vampires, we all know them and at one point they were supposed to be scary creatures that could take over your soul, drink your blood and destroy you. Well, over the years [Read more]

June 5, 2014 // 1 Comment

The Completist: The CHANGE by Stephen R. Boyett

One thing I hope I’ve been able to do through this column is shed some light on titles / series / authors who may have been a bit overlooked when initially published or [Read more]

May 15, 2014 // 1 Comment

BOOK REVIEW: The Very Best of Tad Williams

REVIEW SUMMARY: Tad Williams’s third collection includes 17 stories from across his career, ranging in publication dates [1988 through 2014] and across the genre [Read more]

May 9, 2014 // 4 Comments

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