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Bookshelf: The Worker Prince
Prince Xander Rhii, fresh out of the academy and headed for his new post overseeing workers (slaves) on Vertullis, has been called Davi by his mother all his life. Like the unique necklace he wears, he bears the name as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Exodus, Moses, Superman, The Worker Prince, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: Trial of Intentions
The characters in Peter Orullian’s Trial of Intentions curse by gods who are not there; dead gods, mute gods, deaf gods. This is a world abandoned by its creating gods, the Framers, who also sealed humanity apart from the rogue god Maldea … Continue reading
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Tagged Epic Fantasy, Peter Orullian, The Unremembered, Trial of Intentions, Vault of Heaven
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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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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
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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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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