On Fire's Wings by Christie Golden
reviewed by Victoria Strauss
In the desert land of Arukan, Kevla is a Bai-sha: a girl born fatherless, without caste in a society where caste defines all social interaction. She spends her days in the marketplace, calling the services of her mother Keishla, a prostitute. Then one day a kashim, a clan leader, comes to carry her off to his lush estate, to be a servant in his house. Unbeknownst to Kevla, this man, Tahmu, is her father, and Kevla's mother was the great love of his life. But the rigid rules of caste decreed they could not wed.

Invasion America: On the Run by Christie Golden
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
Biogenetics and big slavering monsters. Mental powers and heavy arms. Trust and betrayal. What more could you ask for? Keep it to yourself. The story lines start out impossibly far-flung and pull together naturally, bypassing miraculous coincidence.

Mind the Gap by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon
reviewed by Michael M Jones
For as long as she can remember, 17-year-old Jazz and her mother have been taken care of by the enigmatic dark-suited men known as the Uncles, equally relying on and fearing them. For that same length of time, Jazz's mother has drilled into her a sense of paranoia and distrust, to be wary of everyone, no matter what their outward appearance. There's the feeling that they're all waiting for something to happen, and one day, it does. Jazz comes home to find her mother murdered by the Uncles, and a last message written in her own blood: Jazz hide forever.

The Eternity Brigade by Stephen Goldin
reviewed by Steve Lazarowitz
Jerry Hawker, known to his friends as Hawk, is a soldier in the U.S. Army. He has just returned from the African Wars, but Hawker is one of those men who knows nothing but the army. So, when he's invited to join a program called Project Bank Note, he's not doing it for the money. The experimental program involves freezing soldiers that have combat experience and thawing them out the next time they're needed.

Star Trek: Trek To Madworld by Stephen Goldin
reviewed by Leon Olszewski
Goldin poses the question: what is it we need in life and what do we miss if it is not there? Of the answers that are given, many are expected. Others show a deeper understanding of human nature. And it is human nature, not alien cultures which we explore through Star Trek.

The Silent Gondoliers by William Goldman
reviewed by Steven H Silver
Best known as the screenwriter of All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, he is also the author of both the novel and film The Princess Bride. His attribution of The Princess Bride to his fictitious persona "S. Morgenstern" still seems to cause confusion among some readers. This time he adopts the same persona to tell the story of Luigi and his variety of compatriots, explaining why the gondoliers of Venice no longer sing when they ply their trade.

The Princess Bride, 25th Anniversary Edition by William Goldman
reviewed by David Soyka
If you've only seen the movie, read the book. But if you haven't done either, read the book first. Except for the fact that it replaces the original ambiguous ending with the kind you'd expect in a Hollywood production, the movie is quite faithful to the text -- not too surprising, since Goldman was the screenwriter.

The Alchemist's Door by Lisa Goldstein
reviewed by William Thompson
Using an imagined meeting between the famous English alchemist, John Dee, and his contemporary in the hermetic sciences, Rabbi Judah Loew as its basis, the author weaves a tale incorporating various historical incidents and recorded arcane investigations, as well as drawing from the culture and folklore of Eastern Europe and Jewish tradition. Dee, with the connivance of his assistant, the somewhat shadowy Edward Kelly, in an attempt to commune with angels, has instead accidentally raised a demon, whose threatening presence forces Dee to flee England along with his family in hope that the spirit will be unable to follow.

Dark Cities Underground & Reading List of Lisa Goldstein
reviewed and compiled by Margo MacDonald
Lisa Goldstein is one of fantasy's best kept secrets. In spite of having won the American Book award for her first published novel in 1983 and being nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards for her work since, not many people can claim to have read all 9 of her books and many more have never heard of her at all. Well, Margo would like to set about changing that...

Walking the Labyrinth by Lisa Goldstein
reviewed by Katharine Mills
An enjoyable read, the novel's two mysteries, Molly Travers' modern one and Emily Wethers' turn-of-the-century one, are beautifully linked together. Goldstein has a quaint and amusing touch with her characters, making them eccentric without sacrificing details, and her quiet humour catches the reader by surprise.

Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez and Mark Williams
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
Sometimes, the chilling possibilities of dark realism get just a touch too frightening. The vampires, werewolves, and black magic in the shadows of dark fantasy multiply too rapidly to keep pace with. Don't you just feel like a good, old-fashioned, mutant monster story? One of those Saturday afternoon creature features that got you interested in this genre in the first place? Here's your ticket...

Daughter of Darkness by Ed Gorman
reviewed by Georges T. Dodds
Neither noir nor occult, as the title might suggest, this is a sort of updated hard-boiled detective with nutty heiress novel. It's a quick and moderately entertaining light read.

Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer
reviewed by David Soyka
Originally published in the author's native Argentina in 1983 as two separate volumes, this collection of loosely related stories translated from the original Spanish by Ursula K. Le Guin marks the author's first appearance in English, though she has 17 novels to her credit and evidently a considerable literary reputation. If this book is at all representative of her work, Gorodischer is a fabulist in the tradition of fellow Latin American Jorge Luis Borges.

The Rose in Twelve Petals and other Stories by Theodora Goss
reviewed by Charlene Brusso
The author's stories and poems are a haunting mix of cobwebby fairy tale elegance and tough-as-concrete contemporary sensibility. The mood and setting frequently evoke turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th century) eastern Europe, all skinny Gothic arches and Art Nouveau curliqueues, baroque music and staticky radios, Goethe and Faust, and the occasional dish of paprikas.

The Rose in Twelve Petals and other Stories by Theodora Goss
reviewed by Sherwood Smith
How to characterize Goss's writing? There is not a single weak or wasted word here, no labored or trite image. Her prose calls to mind the Chinese feng shui, a state of harmony, of balance, between life and art. The prose evokes feng shui, but the stories themselves knock the mind and spirit askew. It's precisely that tension between balance and imbalance, the mental kinetics that send one's mind running, that makes the writer so interesting.

Mindworlds by Phyllis Gotlieb
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
Dipping into one of this author's novels is like the first dive into a dark, icy lake; it takes some getting used to, and every now and then you might feel in over your head, but if you relax, you can let the current wash through and absorb you. This book is her latest plunge into that territory you may not know already, but you could very well end up wanting to remain. If you missed the first two volumes in this series: Flesh and Gold and Violent Stars you might experience more of those moments of deep water, it is far too pleasurable to climb out before the end.

Violent Stars by Phyllis Gotlieb
reviewed by A.L. Sirois
Verona Bullivant is the bewildered target of a series of kidnapping attempts. Her father, who has been estranged from her mother and has not seen Vronni until her mother's recent death, hustles her off to the distant world Khagodis, which is inhabited by a race of intelligent and generally peace-loving saurians. He thinks she'll be safe there. But as Vronni learns more of the secrets surrounding her mother, she and her father come to understand that the fate in store for her is awful beyond description, part of a cycle of betrayal and vengeance that has been playing out for hundreds of years.

Flesh and Gold by Phyllis Gotlieb
reviewed by Lisa DuMond
If you've ever studied a museum-quality tapestry, then you know the true meaning of intricacy, been amazed that single threads could mesh to form a complex and mesmerizing whole. If you missed the beauty and complexity, the awe-inspiring impact of painstaking artistry, shame on you. If you miss the rich weave of Gotlieb's writing, you are beyond redemption.

Hopeful Monsters by Hiromi Goto
reviewed by Rich Horton
This collection of short stories are not quite SF rather they fit comfortably in "the mainstream." They feature mythological creatures like kappas, or men with functional breasts, or ghosts, or mutated humans. What this means is that, these days, "the mainstream" encompasses stories with quite overt fantastical elements.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Weekly Calendar 2004 edited by Karen J. Gould
reviewed by Charlene Brusso
Even if the first month is gone, you just might consider getting yourself -- or an aspiring writer you know -- one of these calendars. Granted, like many other wirebound weekly calendars out there, it has got the basic 2 page/week format in a 5x8 package: days of the week on the right, with US, Canadian, and UK holidays marked, and thematic material on the left -- but it's the thematic material, of course, which makes this calendar worth considering.

Jumper: Griffin's Story by Steven Gould
reviewed by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
Jumper: Griffin's Story is, to say the least, an odd bird. Another book like it may not exist. It is a tie-in to the David Liman-directed science fiction action film, Jumper, starring Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie itself is loosely based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Steven Gould, taking the core premise from the book and essentially re-inventing everything else.

Reflex by Steven Gould
reviewed by Jayme Lynn Blaschke
A decade has passed in Davy's world, and the world's only teleporter has settled into a comfortable routine: he and his wife, Millie, use his gifts to explore the world at will -- the only disruption to this idyllic life comes during Davy's occasional mission for the National Security Agency. It's during one of these missions that things go horribly wrong for Davy. Ambushed, drugged and his NSA contact murdered before his eyes, Davy finds himself held prisoner and tortured beyond human endurance.

Blind Waves by Steven Gould
reviewed by Donna McMahon
It is the mid-21st century and the beaches of America are a distant memory. Patricia Beenan lives on the floating city of New Galveston, and makes her living doing underwater salvage in the ruined city 200 feet below. When she stumbles across a sunken freighter with a hold full of fresh bodies and finds clear evidence that it was sunk by US authorities, she has unleashed a world of trouble.

Helm by Steven Gould
reviewed by Donna McMahon
Centuries after leaving Earth and only one glass helm (helmets that can "imprint" Earth's knowledge) remains, fiercely guarded by the ruler of the city-state of Laal. Dulan is grooming his eldest son to wear the helm and eventually govern Laal, but his plans are wrecked when his youngest son dons the helmet instead, little realizing that it is potentially the most dangerous weapon on his world.