Articles by Rob H. Bedford

About Rob H. Bedford (62 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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MIND MELD: What’s Your Take on Author Legacies? Should Unfinished Series Remain Unfinished?

August 20, 2014 // 4 Comments

[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 [...]

Robert Buettner’s JASON WANDER/ORPHANGE Series

August 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

The Completist: THE LIVESHIP TRADERS by Robin Hobb

July 24, 2014 // 3 Comments

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. [...]

MIND MELD: Authors You Havent Read But Want to Read

July 16, 2014 // 13 Comments

[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 [...]

Why You Should Read Karin Lowachee’s WARCHILD Books

June 26, 2014 // 7 Comments

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 [...]

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

June 11, 2014 // 16 Comments

[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? [...]

The PEEPS duology by Scott Westerfeld

June 5, 2014 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

The Completist: The CHANGE by Stephen R. Boyett

May 15, 2014 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW: The Very Best of Tad Williams

May 9, 2014 // 4 Comments

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 [...]

The Completist: AGE OF MISRULE by Mark Chadbourn

April 24, 2014 // 3 Comments

Mark Chadbourn’s AGE OF MISRULE trilogy is the first of three connected trilogies and it was the first set of his books to make their way to the US. As I’ve indicated in [...]

The Completist: THE SUBTERRENE WAR by T.C. McCarthy

April 10, 2014 // 5 Comments

With my bagel overlords here at SF Signal doing a some Military SF podcasts over the past few weeks, as well an interview with Joe Haldeman, I figured now would be a great [...]

The Completist: THE SUNDERING by Jacqueline Carey

March 20, 2014 // 6 Comments

Jacqueline Carey burst onto the fantasy scene with her alternate history/fantasy/erotic series of novels which began with Kushiel’s Dart and in recent years, she has turned [...]

The Completist: XENOGENESIS (a.k.a. LILITH’S BROOD) by Octavia E. Butler

February 27, 2014 // 7 Comments

Here at The Completist I like to highlight books that may have been sitting for a while on the bookshelves; to ensure good books from a few years ago (and more) aren’t [...]

The Completist: CASSANDRA KRESNOV by Joel Shepherd

February 6, 2014 // 4 Comments

Joel Shepherd’s Casandra Kresnov novels were originally published in the Australia, beginning in 2001 with his debut Crossover. When Pyr launched, as I indicated in my [...]

The Completist: SHADOWBRIDGE by Gregory Frost

January 9, 2014 // 3 Comments

Stories within stories are one of the greatest tricks in fiction and have been around ever since people have been telling stories. Gregory Frost’s latest novel, [...]

The Completist: The NIGHT ANGEL TRILOGY by Brent Weeks

December 19, 2013 // 0 Comments

When Brent Weeks’s first novel, The Way of Shadows, was unleashed the publisher and author of course had high hopes for his career as an author and the first book in The [...]

The Completist: Elizabeth Moon’s THE DEED OF PAKSENARRION

December 5, 2013 // 3 Comments

Cover Art by Todd Lockwood When Elizabeth Moon’s Sheepfarmer’s Daughter hit bookshelves in 1988, it boldly announced the arrival of a new voice in the genre. At the [...]

The Completist: Jeffrey Ford’s THE WELL-BUILT CITY

November 21, 2013 // 3 Comments

Strange landscapes, thinking about and manipulating the world in inventive ways, creatures not of this world … these are just some elements which can be hallmarks of the [...]

The Completist: Greg Keyes’s THE KINGDOMS OF THORN AND BONE

November 6, 2013 // 9 Comments

Much of fantasy, especially Epic Fantasy, has some basis or inspiration in real world events and history. In Greg Keyes’s Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, he uses the lost [...]

The Completist: John Marco’s TYRANTS AND KINGS trilogy

October 23, 2013 // 9 Comments

The third installment of The Completist looks at a military fantasy trilogy a little over a decade after the saga’s completion. The year was 1999, a new Century was on [...]

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SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-09-24

Published On: September 24, 2013

Interviews & Profiles The Capitol Hill Times profiles John W. Campbell Clark Gregg: "Marvel has a way of respecting their audience, not just the nerds" Co-writer director Alfonso Cuarón talks Gravity. A Conversation Between Steven Brust and Skyler White, the co-authors of The Incrementalists A Conversation with Dr. James Stone, author of Crypto Geek Girl interviews James Morris, Musician Continue Reading →

SF Tidbits for 9/24/12

Published On: September 24, 2012

Interviews and Profiles The Coode Street Podcast with Kathleen Ann Goonan. Last Short Story Podcast with Jonathan Strahan, Ian Mond, and Tansy Rayner Roberts on After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. Gail Carriger interviews John Anealio. My Bookish Ways interviews John Shirley. Rudy Rucker (Nas Hedron) interviews Rudy Rucker. Locus interviews Richard Kadrey. A Fantastical Librarian interviews Adam Continue Reading →

THE LAST UNICORN Screening Tour with Special Guest Peter S. Beagle

Published On: September 24, 2013

The Last Unicorn, the 1982 animated fantasy film directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and featuring the voices of Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, and Angela Lansbury...is on tour and Peter S. Beagle, author of the book on which is was adapted, will be there. From the press release:

Short Film: Orbitas

Published On: September 24, 2014

Orbitas is the story of an impossible love that takes place above a warring planet.

First Impression: The Mentalist

Published On: September 24, 2008

Despite what I said in my Fall TV preview post, the online videos for The Mentalist piqued my interest enough to get me to DVR the series pilot last night, which I then watched a bit later in the evening. So, job well done CBS video/PR dudes, you got me. But how was the actual show? The Mentalist is about Continue Reading →