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Bookshelf: The Last Christmas Gift
Okay, I know the decks aren’t fully cleared yet, in that Thanksgiving still looms. Still, Christmas is icumen in, and it’s not too early to think about stocking stuffers. Which should, this year, totally include this book The Last Christmas … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Nathan Shumate, The Last Christmas Gift, Zombies
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Those Depressing Monologues
“Nevertheless there are still some who do believe that philosophy can pose genuine problems about things, and who therefore still hope to get these problems discussed, and to have done with those depressing monologues which now pass for philosophical discussions.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Karl Popper, Philosophy, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
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Bookshelf: Blood Ties
For the first few pages of Quincy J. Allen’s Blood Ties, you might think you were reading a straight Civil War novel. Captain Jake Lasater has been commanded to make what may or may not be a suicidal charge on … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Sonya Fletcher
Happy Halloween! For the holiday, I want to tell you about a series that’s one part Monster Hunters International, one part Supernatural, and one part Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This is the tale of Sonya Fletcher, whose origins are shrouded … Continue reading
Badass Russians
“Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.” — Earl Harbinger
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Tagged Earl Harbinger, Larry Correia, Monster Hunter Alpha, Monster Hunter International
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Overrated
I want to be overrated. This thought comes out of a weekend post on social media, in which a writer asked what books of the last thirty years other people had found to be the most overrated. It’s a fair … Continue reading
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Tagged Bestsellers, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King
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Greene Cheese
“He that can be persuaded that these things are true, or wrought indeed according to the assertion of couseners, or according to the supposition of witchmongers & papists, may soone be brought to beleeve that the moone is made of … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Airships of Camelot
Airships of Camelot is Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan meets The Once and Future King. Like Leviathan, Airships is likely to get called “Steampunk,” though that category fits loosely at best. In some ways, this retelling of the Arthur story has more … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Alyscrai
Steampunk luxuriates in the self-bestowed freedom to mix any influence, aesthetic, period, pseudo-scientific or fantastic element, and literary or historical character it wishes into its brew and distill therefrom a tale. The Alyscrai pushes the envelope in its wide-ranging and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice in Wonderland, D.H. Aidan, Dunlith Hill, Steampunk
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A Seelie Witch
“But men in all ages have beene so desirous to know the effect of their purposes, the sequele of things to come, and to see the end of their feare and hope: that a seelie witch, which had learned anie … Continue reading
