joel kreissman

science fiction

Mage, by R. A. Meenan

Review by Joel Kreissman Mage, the third novel of R.A. Meenan’s Zyearth Chronicles series, starts in the year 2039 on an alternate Earth inhabited by both humans and

r.a. meenan

Brothers At Arms (Zyearth Chronicles) by R.A. Meenan

Review by Joel Kreissman Starting six months after Shadow Cast, Zyearth is starting to recover from Basileus Theron’s attack. His mind-controlled army has been freed, but those he converted

Fantasy

Children of Maya by Christopher Vastag

Review by Joel Kreissman Christopher Vastag’s Children of Maya takes us to a fantasy land inhabited by changelings who can shift between a human and an animal form. The

tales of the para-imperium

Tales of the Para-Imperium by Joel Kreissman

Review by Ardy Hart Tales of the Para-Imperium is not so much a book as it is a guide to exploring a fascinating universe. Written by Joel Kreissman, this incredible

Danny Carl Estes

The Infinite Wisdom by Danny Carl Estes

Review by Joel Kreissman The Infinite Wisdom by Danny Carl Estes is a sequel to his prior novel Braxton Snow: P.I., and while I haven’t read the first

erotica

Leather Ballad: Folsom by Alex Constance

Review by Joel Kreissman Leather Ballad: Folsom, is a sequel to the first Leather Ballad by Alex Constance and, like the first book, it compiles a series of chapters previously

The Zyearth Chronicles

Shadow Cast by R. A. Meenan

Review by Joel Kreissman R.A. Meenan’s Shadow Cast is the first novel in her Zyearth Chronicles series, though not the first story. It is set on a planet

military

The Visitors, by Royce Day

Review by Joel Kreissman “The Visitors” officially knits together two of Royce Day’s long-running series about fox-like extraterrestrials into a single timeline: The steampunk/alternate world war “Prisoners of

fenris publishing

Spin the Bottle, by Dajan Tafari

Review by Joel Kreissman Dajan Tafari’s novella “Spin the Bottle” is unabashed vore erotica. If you don’t find furries swallowing one another whole and digesting them to be

novel

Soup of the Moment: A Tale of Barsk, by Lawrence M. Schoen

Review by Joel Kreissman Lawrence M. Schoen’s Soup of the Moment: A Tale of Barsk is a distant prequel to his earlier novel Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard but

Novella

Minor Mage, by T. Kingfisher

Review by Joel Kreissman T. Kingfisher’s “Minor Mage” is a fantasy novella for about a boy and his… armadillo. When an isolated farming village suffers a seemingly endless drought,

Anthology

The Electric Sewer, ed. Thurston Howl

Review by Joel Kreissman [image cropped due to adult content ;) ] When I first saw the call for submissions to Thurston Howl’s Electric Sewer I was uncertain what they meant

Anthology

Exploring New Places, ed. Fred Patten

Review by Joel Kreissman Exploration! That age-old activity. Whether it be exploration of new lands, planets, universes, or mindsets, people have been Exploring New Places for a long time and

serial

They are Smol, by TinyPrancingHorse [serial]

Review by Joel Kreissman TinyPrancingHorse’s (TPH) web serial “They Are Smol” started on the Reddit forum r/HFY (Humanity, F--- Yeah!), but unlike most stories on that board humans aren’t depicted as some sort of interstellar badasses. Rather, in this setting, humanity

cats

When a Cat Loves a Dog, by Mary E. Lowd

Review by Joel Kreissman Mary E. Lowd’s “When a Cat Loves a Dog” starts with a mixed-species wedding, something that has only just become legal in the setting. Lashonda,

Novella

Overnight Shift, by Bill Siracusa

Review by Joel Kreissman Bill Siracusa’s Overnight Shift is a bear romance with werewolves. We’ve got Dale, the big grumpy park ranger; Adam, the hunky electrician spending the

Novella

Forlorn, by Aaron B.

Review by Joel Kreissman Forlorn, by Aaron B. is yet another dragon/dragonslayer romance story. Though I must admit I haven’t seen too many male/male stories of that

jeremy newton

A Wolf Asunder, by Jeremy Newton

Review by Joel Kreissman Jeremy Newton’s A Wolf Asunder is roughly the size of a Lord of the Rings novel, but it moves so quickly I barely noticed the

Anthology

In Flux, ed. Rechan

Review by Joel Kreissman What constitutes one’s self is never static: one’s mind is always changing a little at a time; the body is continually in flux. Hence

rabbits

The Rabbit Dies First, ed. Ryan Campbell

Review by Joel Kreissman Cold eyes, lost in dread Bunny for the story’s sake Now lies cold and dead. This poem by Mog K. Moogle sets the tone for

medieval

The Story of Sorrel, by Joseph Lallo

Review by Joel Kreissman Joseph Lallo’s dark fantasy series The Book of Deacon encompasses about half a dozen novels of warfare between humans, elves, dwarves, and your standard Medieval

post-apocalyptic

Signal, by Renee Carter Hall

Review by Joel Kreissman If an apocalypse happens, what will our successors think of the things we leave behind? That is what Renee Carter Hall seeks to explore in Signal.

Goal Publications

Whandirlust, by Aisha Gaillard

Review by Joel Kreissman Whandirlust, Aisha Gaillard’s first novel so far as I can tell, is a trippy rampage through the “trapped in another world” genre. It starts out

Madison Keller

The Dragonsbane Saga, by Madison Keller

Review by Joel Kreissman The Dragonsbane Saga by Madison Keller is a four-book series of humorous fantasy romance novellas. The books are short and easily digestible, although of substantially increasing

griffins

Griffin Ranger: Crossline Plains, by Roz Gibson

Review by Joel Kreissman Roz Gibson’s Griffin Ranger duology is the story of a world ruled by mythical beasts and populated by assorted species of sapient animals. We are