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Bookshelf: The Billy Saga
Michaelbrent Collings is a writer probably best known for his horror novels, but he’s always written outside that genre, from science fiction thrillers to young adult vampire romance to karate instruction manual. With the Billy Saga, Michaelbrent gets into Middle … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Small Town Monsters
Craig Nybo is the Norman Rockwell of gory monster adventure fiction. I’ve read two of Craig’s novels (his earlier foray into similar space — “just your average zombies versus the KKK story,” as he likes to say — was Allied … Continue reading
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Tagged Allied Zombies for Peace, Cliche, Craig Nybo, David Byrne, Doc Hollywood, Goonies, Small Town Monsters
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Bookshelf: Captain Nemo
I’m reading Jules Verne these days, to try to learn to read a little French, if not speak it. So when I sat on a panel on Steampunk at FanX with Kevin J. Anderson, and we talked about Jules Verne … Continue reading
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Bookshelf: Lights in the Deep
The “R” stands for Real. Brad Torgersen has been a friend for a few years, a guy I’ve seen around conventions several times a year and on social media more frequently. I’ve known him as something of a dork (that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Apocalyptic Fiction, Brad Torgersen, Lights in the Deep, Religion, Science Fiction
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The Iron Dragon
Looking for traditional fantasy, with excellently-drawn characters, dragons and general awesomeness? The Secret Empire, Book three of Paul Genesse’s series The Iron Dragon is now out. Book one, The Golden Cord, is available as a $2.99 ebook on Amazon.
Merry Christmas
Here’s a non-fiction book recommendation: Christmas: The Original Story, by Margaret Barker. The First Temple’s major furnishings were made of gold; frankincense topped the Bread of the Presence displayed and eaten in it; myrrh was a component of the incense … Continue reading
Essential Classics: Ancient Egyptian Literature
Miriam Lichtheim has collected a lot of ancient Egyptian writings into three slim (200+ pages each) volumes, covering the Old and Middle Kingdoms, the New Kingdom and the Late Period. There are a lot of reasons you should read the … Continue reading
Essential Classics: the Brothers Grimm
There are lots of editions floating around, and get any you like — just make sure you don’t get one designed for kids. Despite their made-for-advertising name, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were serious academics (Jacob was also a lawyer), and … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Kalevala
Following up on Friday’s comments dialog: the Kalevala is the national epic of Finland. It looks at first glance like it might be a single unified poem, a la Homer, but is in fact a family of sung poems about … Continue reading
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Tagged Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Classics, Elias Lonnrot, Finland, Kalevala, The Eddas
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Bookshelf: the Eddas
They are the basic sources of our knowledge about Viking mythology, and there are two of them, readily available in English translations. The Poetic (Elder) Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems, mythological, apocalyptic and heroic. It’s the older … Continue reading
