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A Thought for You Creatives
“Men mocked and reproached the lover because he acted like a fool for love’s sake. The lover felt contempt for their mockery, and reproached them in turn for not loving the beloved.” — Ramon Llull, Book of the Lover and … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of the Lover and the Beloved, Mysticism, Ramon Lull, Sufism, Troubadour Poetry
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Bookshelf: Mythos and Cosmos
John Lundwall’s Mythos and Cosmos stands in a line of brilliant and essential books that pierce through the fog of modernity to ask the question: what were our ancestors thinking? In particular, Lundwall examines the connections among mythology, liturgy, and … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Sands
Lhaurel is a young woman of the desert people, the Sidena, who take shelter on stone during the part of the year when the reptilian genesauri rampage on the sands. Lhaurel has always been a bit different — tall, thin, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern, Dune, Frank Herbert, Kevin L. Nielsen, Sands, Young Adult
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Bookshelf: Homunculus & the Cat
The cat has no name, and she won’t get a name until she discovers a deeper iteration of her self that reveals it. She has nine lives. Well, eight, after her death in Alexandria at the hands of a Japanese … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity Quills, Jody Lynn Nye, Nathan Croft, Piers Anthony, Robert L. Asprin
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Bookshelf: First Chosen
Julianna is a Duchess in her own right, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, a marriageable young lady, and the child of fate. Gods and goddesses watch her path, some protecting her and some seeking her destruction, and … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Space Operae
Space Operae is the independent publication (and elaboration) of a story previously published in two novellas in the Space Eldritch and Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars anthologies. Set among those other tales of Lovecraftian space opera, the two Space Opera … Continue reading
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Tagged Lovecraft, Michael Collings, Space Eldritch, Space Eldritch II, Space Opera, Space Operae
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Bookshelf: Lamentation
Ken Scholes’s Lamentation begins with the eradication of the ancient city of Windwir, home of the Androfrancine monastic-technological order. It leads us in fast-paced, Kevin J. Anderson-esque adventure-focused storytelling through the impact, the fallout, and the maneuvering of the powers … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Fire with Fire
Chuck Gannon’s debut novel and first Caine Riordan book, Fire with Fire, is Jack Ryan in a first contact story. Caine is a writer and researcher, sometimes a journalist and spy, and a polymath. His inability to waste mental energy … Continue reading
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Tagged Baen, Caine Riordan, Charles E. Gannon, Chuck Gannon, Fire with Fire, First Contact Stories, Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy
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Bookshelf: Beat
Nik Granjer doesn’t believe in the Bug. The Bug is the disease that wiped everyone else out a century ago. And it’s not that Nik doesn’t believe that the Bug once existed, but viruses just don’t live that long without … Continue reading
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Tagged Beat, Dystopia, Future House Publishing, Jared Garrett, YA
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For Starters
Zarah looked at the other prisoners and furrowed her brow. “A voice can consent or protest,” she said softly. “When the power to do both those things has been taken away, what point is there to speech?” “Well,” Jak said, … Continue reading
