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Bookshelf: Spirit Walker
The Serpent Catch series is Jurassic Planet: in a far future, homo sapiens has terra-formed a world and filled it with neanderthals and dinosaurs (as well as sea serpents and dragons). Thousands of years later, our hero is Tull, half-human … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Bieber’s Finger / Funk Toast and the Pan-Galactic Prom Show
Twana Burch is a lucky girl. Yeah, her brother is involved with a black-market cloning racketeer, and her mom is a junkie declining rapidly towards death. But Twana, who is the HUGEST FAN EVER of the mononymic pop star Bieber, happens … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The Crown and the Dragon
This is the story of a princess whose people have been subjugated by a foreign power and the outlaw who is her unlikely companion. Elenn is fated to be a paladin, and bears a magical artifact of tremendous destiny, but … Continue reading
Bookshelf: James Owen
James Owen is a storyteller of a particular kind. In the same way that Bob Dylan is a troubadour / balladist wielding an ancient tradition of lines, tropes, structures, and concerns, Owen walks as a sort of guide to, shuffler, reinventor, … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Million Dollar Outlines
I occasionally remind myself of craft principles by going back to the well and reading a book about writing. This week, I read David Farland’s Million Dollar Outlines. If you’re trying to write your first novel (or your nth novel) … Continue reading
Bookshelf: Bloodletting
The Affinities Cycle is an epic fantasy saga in a Farlandesque or Sandersonian vein… 5/5 stars, and bring on the sequels! As in Sanderson’s and Farland’s most famous books, magic here is schematic, tied to an ordering of the world, its … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, Epic Fantasy, Mark Ryan, Peter J. Wacks, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: Slags and Embers
Debut novelist Brian Lindow has launched an epic of which C.S. Lewis would be proud. The Soulscape Code: Slags and Embers is the first of a series set in a ruined world. Deprived of its defenders (the three Forges of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Sanderson, Brian Lindow, C.S. Lewis, David Farland, Slags and Embers, The Soulscape Code, Worldbuilding
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Bookshelf: The Children of Húrin
I’ve just read Tolkien’s recently-published story The Children of Húrin. I don’t have a lot to say about it: in tone and voice, it’s somewhere between The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, so if you liked The Silmarillion you … Continue reading
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Tagged Elric, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, The Children of Húrin, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
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Bookshelf: Rescue from Planet Pleasure
Felix Gomez is ex-military, a hard-nosed PI who operates on the borderlands between the natural and supernatural worlds, among Anglo and Mexican and Native American traditions, and sometimes between different planets. And he’s a vampire. Felix’s friend Carmen is being … Continue reading
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Tagged Felix Gomez, Mario Acevedo, Rescue from Planet Pleasure, Wordfire Press
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Bookshelf: The Hollow City
Michael Shipman is crazy. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong. Michael suffers from schizophrenia, and he knows that when the meds aren’t working, he hallucinates. He may or may not see people without faces, people others can’t see, or whom others … Continue reading
