BTS Book Reviews December 2013 | Page 73

The Scrying Eye Kelly Hudson Tidings of Great Joy Come inside, my dear brothers and sisters. Come, sit by the fire, warm yourselves. Drink a cup of hot tea or coffee, if you prefer. Gather your senses, prepare your mind, open up your holiday spirit. Soon we shall part the curtains and see what the Scrying Eye holds in store for us this month. And lo! Do I hear the Eye now, ready to speak, to open, and to show us all the wondrous gifts of fiction that wait in our near future? Sit, sit by the Eye and gaze into its depths. Peer into the mystery and receive now the answers to all of your questions. It opens! It opens . . . Fantasy/Science Fiction A Cosmic Christmas edited by Hank Davis (Baen—available now) is a collection of twelve Christmas-themed stories with a Science Fiction bent. Older authors as well as a newer mix bring this fantastic collection to life, featuring work from Manly Wade Welman, Sarah A. Hoyt, Larry Correia, and many others. Read about a ballerina and a holographic tycoon, a clone that discovers joy, and a werewolf that goes home with December 2013 | 73