Category Archives: Small Press Book Reviews

18 Wheels of Science Fiction:  A Long Haul into the Fantastic edited by Eric Miller (Big Time Books)   Over the years, I’ve done a lot of driving. I’ve lived on a couple continents and done a fair amount of … Continue reading →

Lost Signals of the Terran Republic (Beyond Terra Press) edited and developed by Charles E. Gannon  Fans of the Caine Riordan/Terran Republic series will love this book. The interstitial material that connects the stories of various authors is a series … Continue reading →

The Garden at the Roof of the World by W.B.J. Williams (Dragonwell Press) Except for reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Narnia books, and Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain, when I took over Abyss & Apex I was … Continue reading →

Anthems Outside Time, and other strange voices (Fairwood Press) by Ken Schneyer  For what it’s worth, Abyss & Apex is one of the few review sites that loves reviewing short fiction collections. This one was a jewel box of delights. … Continue reading →

  Knight and Nightrider (The King’s Daughter, Book 4) by J. Kathleen Cheney (Dream Palace Press) This is the fourth book in Cheney’s The King’s Daughter Series, and like the last three I enjoyed it immensely. It starts when when … Continue reading →

Dead Star: Tri-Star Empire Book 1 by Simon Kewin Selene Ada is rescued, unconscious, from her homeworld. The planet had been condemned to death by the brutal, galaxy-spanning Concordance: their sunlight slowly being blocked by a planetary shroud. Someone breaks through … Continue reading →

Here, There Be Monsters (Dark Quest) by John L. French I first met the book’s protagonist in a collaborative book done by John L. French and Patrick Murphy – part of the Hell’s Detective series, and I asked for more … Continue reading →

Forgotten Sidekicks (Grimbold Books, Kristell Ink) Edited by Peter Sutton and Steven Poore   This themed anthology is a lot of fun, and I think you’ll enjoy it. The first story, “The Bardic Guide to Disobedience” is about a Hero … Continue reading →

Goddess Rising by Jay Hartlove The resurrected Desiree Macklin and Dr. Sanantha Mauwad are back in this third book in the Goddess Rising trilogy. In a previous tale, Sanantha – a psychiatrist and a practitioner of her homeland Haiti’s religions, … Continue reading →

Common Source by Bryan Thomas Schmidt Detective John Simon and his android partner Lucas George are back. Something is causing androids to cause property damage, and worse. What was the cause? Simon and his partner are assigned to the first … Continue reading →