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Double Star (review)

by Bill Ward on December 6, 2008

in Book Reviews

I had once played the lead in L’Aiglon and I had played Caesar in the only two plays about him worthy of the name. But to play such a role in life — well, it is enough to make one understand how a man could go to the guillotine in another man’s place — just [...]

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The High Crusade (review)

by Bill Ward on September 28, 2008

in Book Reviews

At the moment, all was triumph. Red-splashed, panting, in scorched and dinted armor, Sir Roger de Tourneville rode a weary horse back to the main fortress. After him came the lancers, archers, yeomen — ragged, battered, shoulders slumped with exhaustion. But the Te Deum was on their lips, rising beneath the strange constellations that twinkled [...]

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Childhood’s End (review)

by Bill Ward on August 27, 2008

in Book Reviews

He felt no regrets as the work of a lifetime was swept away. He had labored to take man to the stars, and, in the moment of success, the stars — the aloof, indifferent stars — had come to him. This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from [...]

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Dying Inside (review)

by Bill Ward on June 22, 2008

in Book Reviews

The station, at this hour, is practically deserted. But in a moment I hear the wailing of onrushing wheels, metal on metal, and simultaneously I pick up the blasting impact of a phalanx of minds all rushing toward me at once out of the north, packed aboard the five or six cars of the oncoming [...]

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City (review)

by Bill Ward on June 8, 2008

in Book Reviews

The house stood on the hilltop, a huddled structure that had taken root and crouched close against the earth. So old that it was the color of the things around it, of grass and flowers and trees, of sky and wind and weather. A house built by men who loved it and the surrounding acres [...]

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