Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom is an anthology of brand new stories featuring John Carter of Mars. The lineup of authors is pretty impressive. Peter Beagle, Garth Nix, Joe Lansdale, Tobias Buckell, Austin Grossman, Catherynne Valente, and Chris Claremont are just a few of the contributors.
Michael Carroll is wrapping up his excellent Super Human series later this year. Stronger is the title of the final book in the trilogy (available 06.14.12). If you’re curious, here’s what we had to say about the first two novels, Super Human and The Ascension.
Now available: Dolphins & Time, the Strangest of Bedfellows by Josh Price. For more “absurd” misadventures of Captain Rescue, check out the first two books, Not Everything Brainless is Dead and Past, Future & Present Danger.
For your pleasure: Spandex Always Rises by the Keioskie Brothers. Supervillain: The Concise Guide by Ras Ashcroft. Awaken: The Children of Divinity Book 1 by Garth Reasby. The Avengers Assemble by the prolific tie-in writer TBD (reading level: ages 8 and up). And finally, it may not be a superhero novel, but it’s worth a mention nonetheless: The Future is Japanese (volume one, we hope) edited by the crew at Haikasoru.
Twitter post from Van Allen Plexico: SENTINELS: METALGOD will be along late summer. That’s cool. Also, check out a recent interview with the author here. Years ago we promised Plexico that we’d do our best to read/review his entire Sentinels saga. We got through the first three books before getting sidetracked with other things. We’d like to reassure the author that we are planning to catch up eventually. Unfortunately, it’s taking us a little longer than expected.
Speaking of our reading habits, a lot of people (authors mostly) want to know what our book review policy is. Here’s how it breaks down: new books have priority over old books. SuperheroNovels.com wants to be timely. So we’ll review a book from 2012 before we tackle a book from 2003. Also, a book from a publisher will get our attention quicker than a self-published ebook. And finally, at the risk of sounding like a luddite, if we get a book in the mail we’ll probably read it quicker than if we get a book sent to us electronically. The reason is obvious. An actual book will sit on our shelf and glare at us until we read it. An ebook, on the other hand, gets filed away in a folder on our desktop. Out of sight, out of mind.
And one last thing for fans of DragonBall: Ever wonder what a real Super Saiyan transformation might look like? Check this one.






