Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThere’s a lot of different things to go into here. First, this is a novelization of the first Star Trek movie. I do generally enjoy the film, but I’m certainly nowhere near agreeing with the people who celebrate it. It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I accidentally bought this from Osprey in the ePub format, and confirmed my suspicion that that is a poor choice for the heavily illustrated Osprey books. If you want electronic format, for them I recommend PDF so that the formatting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a 1925 book. I got it for cheap at one point through Diversion Books, but it’s available through Project Gutenberg as well. In fact, the latter appears to be in better shape, with proper linking to footnotes, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a recent contemporary fantasy furry romance novel. It’s fairly lighthearted, fun, and good. On the furry side, it’s the fairly typical backgroundless furry contemporary world. Technology is about what we have (cell phones and all). Background isn’t really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to say there’s too many books about Abraham Lincoln, but there certainly are an awful lot of them. Doris Kearns Goodwin manages a slight of hand to emerge from the pack by spreading her net to the four[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can remember, back in the day, hearing about the producers for ST:TNG at conventions giving some of their own thoughts on certain subjects (it’s only cannon if it makes it to the screen…). It had been said that the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While getting started with this novella, something was tickling at the back of my mind. Shortly after the first chapter, I realized that I recognized the names “Raneadhros” and “Ranea”. This is the same world as his early stories “A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a direct sequel to Alliance Rising; you could read this alone, but reading that first would be highly recommended. That said, while Rising left off on a cliffhanger, nothing about that gets resolved here. It will take time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you read up on the start of the Civil War, you will doubtless come across the fact that Lincoln ended up sneaking into Washington DC before his inauguration. This is after he is presented evidence that an attempt will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, from the beginning, I have questions that are never answered. It’s part of a setup that is fine in it’s own right, but you do have to wonder at the biology. Teku is a fifth child. Which doesn’t seem[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…