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Tag Archives: Aaron Michael Ritchey
Bookshelf: Relic
I love alt-Westerns. David J. West’s COLD SLITHER is an example, a collection of pulp fiction in the vein of Manly Wade Wellman, featuring real-life mountain man and gunfighter Orrin Porter Rockwell. Another favorite is Aaron Michael Ritchey’s Juniper Wars … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Michael Ritchey, City of the Saints, Cold Slither, Dandelion Iron, David J. West, Fantasy, Juniper Wars, Relic, Renee Collins, Steampunk, Western
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Bookshelf: The Never Prayer
Lena’s parents are dead, gunned down in the act of trying to help a stranded motorist. She lives for her younger brother Jozey, and most of the time things go all right. At school, Lena manages to walk the line … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Michael Ritchey, Angels, Demons, The Never Prayer, YA
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Bookshelf: Long Live the Suicide King
Mostly I put speculative fiction on the Bookshelf here, because that’s what I myself read (mostly) and write (again, mostly). Long Live the Suicide King is not spec fic. It’s quirky, dark, funny, touching, and ultimately redemptive storytelling about middle-class … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Michael Ritchey, Dandelion Iron, Long Live the Suicide King, Young Adult
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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
