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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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Bookshelf: Running from the Night
Ramón Terrell’s Running from the Night starts with a murder. Jelani, California transplant to Vancouver, stop-motion actor, and martial artist, is out jogging and stumbles across a killing. Not just a killing, as it happens. A vampire feeding. It turns … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Martial Arts, Ramón Terrell, Running from the Night, Vampires, Vancouver, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: Ripped
Angie Lofthouse is one of my favorite authors. She’s one of my favorite local authors in that she tells science fiction stories that are both deeply Mormon and at the same time profoundly idiosyncratic (I am thinking in particular here … Continue reading
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Tagged Angie Lofthouse, Defenders of the Covenant, Mormon Science Fiction, Ripped, Steven L. Peck
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Bookshelf: Shattered Shields
In light of the recent (ongoing?) guffaw-faw over the Hugo Awards, I was a little surprised and immensely pleased to pick up Shattered Shields and see the list of authors it includes. Without assigning people to sides, and at the risk … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Verisimilitude
Deren Hansen’s Verisimilitude: How Illusions, Confidence Games, and Skillful Lying can Improve Your Fiction is a pithy and readable guide to improving your writing. It’s ostensibly about writing fiction, but in fact I think a lot of the advice is applicable … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Gallagher, Brandon Sanderson, Deren Hansen, How to Write, Howard Tayler, Scott Westerfeld
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Bookshelf: Partials
The backstory of Dan Wells’ biopunk epic is that America genetically engineers a bunch of semi-human “Partials” as supersoldiers — tough, unfeeling, regenerating killing machines. Who turn around and overthrow civilization. At the same time, a plague, called the RM … Continue reading
