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“And now, as grapes are pressed into wine, we press this slave into something greater,” the Master said . . . . “You knew the grapes in the crush were weak. You sensed the difference between the pours, and were able to think it through to determine why. And you have not allowed servitude in [...]
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Anyone following this blog knows I’m absolutely bananas for a relatively new series called the Oathsworn Saga, from author Robert Low. The Oathsworn is a pitch-perfect historical adventure following a group of far-faring Vikings through the 10th century. I’ve had the pleasure of reading and reviewing the first three books in this projected four-volume series [...]
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Despite having a whole bunch of stuff to do this month, I naturally managed to squeeze in a few books here and there — otherwise I’d be an utter failure as a human being and bibliophile, yes? A few of the books I won’t mention — they’re top secret — as they will end up [...]
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Another reprint review over at the Black Gate site this week, this one also from the last issue. It’s a review of a very fun alt-history Weird Western called Pax Dakota from Ken Rand, which treats us to an agnostic Amerindian and a Prairie Prostitute battling the disembodied corpse-possessing spirit of the Old Enemy. It’s [...]
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Over at Black Gate today I’ve put up my review of Steven Brust’s Jhegaala,which originally appeared in Black Gate #13. With the next in the venerable series, Iorich, due for release in January of next year, I thought it would be a good time to talk about the most recent book.
For anyone not familiar with [...]
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November proved an eclectic and productive reading period for me — even if I didn’t get much else done. I started things off with Italian fabulist Italo Calvino’s excellently mesmerizing Invisible Cities, a series of imaginative prose-poem meditations on memory and semiotics wrapped up in a spiraling chapter structure. It’s the sort of thing that [...]
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Whereas last October found me in Bradbury country, this time around I was busy finishing review books for the next Black Gate, and sneaking in a few anthologies and novels at the end of the month to serve as a change of pace.
As I mentioned last month, I have the pleasure of reviewing the two [...]
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