The Completist: THE BORDEN DISPATCHES by Cherie Priest
Rob (aka The Completist) tackles Cherie Priest's THE BORDEN DISPATCHES! [...]
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An examination of SFFH series which have concluded.
The Completist: MORDANT’S NEED by Stephen R. Donaldson
The Completist (aka Rob H. Bedford) takes an in depth look at Stephen R. Donaldson's MORDANT'S NEED series [...]
The Completist: Patricia McKillip’s RIDDLE-MASTER Trilogy
Today, The Completist (aka Rob Bedford), takes an in-depth look at Patricia McKillip's RIDDLE-MASTER Trilogy [...]
The Completist: The ACTS OF CAINE Series by Matthew Stover
Rob Bedford (aka The Completest) takes a very thorough look at the Acts of Caine series by Matthew Woodring Stover. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Completist: AGE OF MISRULE by Mark Chadbourn
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
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
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
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
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
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, [...]
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