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An explosion behind Donal blew the steel doors open. The percussive pressure hammered Donal through the opening, back into the chamber where the mages stood.
He fell atop dead children.
In the doorway, a pale figure stood with a heavy hexzooka over one shoulder. Beyond, revealed in the great atrium, a riderless bone motorcycle was harrying prey, [...]
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Over at Black Gate today I’ve posted my review of Midwinter, Matthew Sturges debut fantasy novel which reminded me quite a lot of Roger Zelazny. A good read, especially if you are looking for something a tad bit different in the departments of Sword & Sorcery and Heroic Fantasy.
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“Gods, I love this place,” Locke said, drumming his fingers against his thighs. “Sometimes I think this whole city was put here simply because the gods must adore crime. Pickpockets rob the common folk, merchants rob anyone they can dupe, Capa Barsavi robs the robbers and the common folk, the lesser nobles rob nearly everyone, [...]
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The simple rule I follow for these Reading Roundups is to really only talk about the books I finish in a certain month, and not about the one’s I’ve dipped into or started that still have a bookmark sticking out of them. Then too, I don’t really talk about books I plan on reviewing in [...]
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The big read this February came in the form of the Robert Fagles translation of The Iliad, which I’d actually started months ago and read on and off until deciding I really needed to give it the attention it deserved. Previously, I’ve read The Iliad in the Fitzgerald (verse) and Rouse (prose) translation, but I [...]
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Well, the first month of the new year is over and my reading has been all over the map. There is the review stuff, most obviously Flesh and Fire which I posted a review of last week, but also the heavily anticipated Imaro ‘IV’ The Naama War, a review of which will appear at Black [...]
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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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