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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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A Clockwork Orange (review)

by Bill Ward on September 14, 2008

in Book Reviews

It’s funny how the colours of the like real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

Title: A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess
Genre: Dystopian Science Fiction/Satire
Year: 1962

O my brothers, viddy well this like review of a horrorshow dobby book called A Clockwork Orange, written by this real oomny chelloveck Anthony Burgess. In [...]

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Neuromancer (review)

by Bill Ward on September 6, 2008

in Book Reviews

The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures of his skull with x-rays of short-circuited sexual energy. His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. His bones, beneath the [...]

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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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The House on the Borderland (review)

by Bill Ward on August 2, 2008

in Book Reviews

Presently, I saw, rising up out of the ruddy gloom,the distant peaks of the mighty amphitheatre of mountains, where, untold ages before, I had been shown my first glimpse of the terrors that underlie many things; and where, vast and silent, watched by a thousand mute gods, stands the replica of this house [...]

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The Martian General’s Daughter (review)

by Bill Ward on June 29, 2008

in Book Reviews

“In Europe,” said Father, “you will build a new nation and I will grow old. The Empire will pass away, and in a thousand years your descendants will read of it in a language that does not yet exist, and they will wonder if these things really were. And even if they think the [...]

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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

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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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