Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsBone is, of course, a wonderful series, so I have to admit to feeling some guilt at taking so long to getting around to the prequel that came out while Bone was still running, especially as a long-time fan of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part two of the Dreamhealer’s duology naturally picks up right where Mindtouch left off. Jahir starts his residency on Selnor, and finds that it has even higher gravity than the (for him) heavy gravity that he’d had to get adjusted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Like a lot of people, ancient Egypt has always had a fascination for me, and being a history buff, I’ve picked up a decent amount of knowledge on the subject over the years. But, I’ve never had any one great[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can remember reading a fair number of books dealing psychic powers, adventure, and relationships in the ’80s. This is kind of a return to those, but much improved. Psionics is never a favored subject of mine, though it’s not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of Honsinger’s military-SF series delivers pretty much everything you’d expect after the first book. Unfortunately, the beginning parts of the novel have some problems. I think he felt too much of a need to re-introduce things with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dragon’s Egg is a story assembled out of a few disparate parts. There’s the formation of a neutron star from a supernova, the discovery of said star by astronomers in 2020, an expedition to said star… and then there’s what’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second volume of Osprey’s New Vanguard books on medieval siege weapons is pretty much just like the first: Thompson’s gouache illustrations do a good job of showing some specific examples, while the text goes through variations on terminology and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My biggest regret about Reed Browning’s book on the War of the Austrian Succession is that he never wrote any other military history. His normal subject seems to be the British government of the early 18th Century, which is probably[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve found that the best way to sum up this book is, “It’s a Roger Zelazny novel.” For anyone who doesn’t really know what that means, I’ll try to explain. With a world where one half is perpetually day, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Preston’s book on the last Jacobite Rebellion is an interesting volume. It looks for balance not by stripping away all romanticism or propaganda, but by embracing them. What papers and people were saying on both sides is looked at, not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…