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Bookshelf: The Seer
The Seer is a gripping epic fantasy novel about the curse of talent and the overreaching of power. Sonia Orin Lyris’s debut novel The Seer follows young Amarta, who has a limited ability to see the future. The future is … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Dandelion Iron
YA literature has been exploding in recent years, but in all its eccentric fecundity, it’s never seen this before: post-apocalyptic all-girl cattle drive. In 2058, the Juniper—that part of North America that used to be Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Michael Ritchey, Cattle Drive, Dandelion Iron, Juniper Wars, Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Wordfire Press, YA
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City of the Saints in the Humble Bundle!
The year is 1859. US Army agent Sam Clemens rides west in his amphibious steam-truck, the Jim Smiley. His mission is to get the unruly Kingdom of Deseret, with its air-ships and its rumored phlogiston guns, into the looming conflict … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats is the only vampire novel ever de-classified by the Department of Energy. In looking at the Amazon reviews as I write this, I see a few complaints about the title. I’m not sure why — the … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Feather and the Moon Well
Shean Pao’s debut novel The Feather and the Moon Well is a deeply romantic fairy tale told about and from the points of view of the fairy creatures, that asks the question: can a creature change its nature? The owner … Continue reading
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Tagged David Farland, David Farland Discovery, Fairy Tales, Ireland, Shean Pao, The Feather in the Moon Well, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: The Dragons of Dorcastle
Alain is a Mage; his power, like that of all his Guild, comes from the key insight that the world and everything in it are unimportant illusion, easily manipulated. When the caravan he is guarding comes under attack from suspiciously over-armed … Continue reading
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Tagged Jack Campbell, The Dragons of Dorcastle, The Pillars of Reality, Young Adult
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Bookshelf: A Cloak of Frost
One day the North Wind delivers a baby to a baker and his wife. They love the child without giving her a name, and mostly the village of Snelling-on-the-Oak accepts her… mostly. But the child is magical. She builds homes for … Continue reading
To Coincide with a Full Moon
“Ordinary people were much more aware of the heavenly bodies than they are today. It is artificial lighting, in street and house, which has made us less conscious of their endless mutations. Few dwellers in large cities now know what … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
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Bookshelf: Unforgettable
Nat Morgan is unrememberable. Literally. If you leave his presence, in sixty seconds you’ve forgotten him entirely. He’s been this way since birth; the only reason he survived infancy was his mother’s recognition of the problem, and her determined writing … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Second Paradigm
Second Paradigm‘s title refers to a new paradigm for thinking about time, time travel, and paradox, and its story is an exploration of that paradigm. The challenge in trying to tell you about a book as intricately plotted as this … Continue reading
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Tagged Peter J. Wacks, Second Paradigm, Time Travel, Wordfire Press
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