Books by Michael Johnston and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Johnston. Tor, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8648-9
The political is personal in this elaborate opening segment of a high fantasy series that entwines family quarrels with imperial ambitions. An enormous empire controls its subject kingdoms through the ancient practice of hostage taking. King Arko...
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Michael Johnston, Author, Robert Coles, Foreword by . Grove $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1721-2
Fresh from a postcollege, intensive five-week crash course, Johnston began his two-year stint with Teach for America, a program that addresses the needs of some of America's most desperate classrooms. In Johnston's case, it's a high...
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Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston. Putnam, $17.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-25754-4
In this post-apocalyptic first book in the Heart of Dread series, the husband-and-wife team of de la Cruz and Johnston blur the lines between science fiction and fantasy. In a future in which much of the world is covered in ice—ice that has brought...
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