Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerA Fire Upon the Deep is an important novel that SF fans really should read. I think, like Niven’s Ringworld, it’s a flawed book with really good ideas. Like Ringworld, it also has a much better sequel. The original book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is hard, at first glance, to see just what a book dedicated to naval (actually, the ‘maritime’ of the title is a better fit than ‘naval’…) warfare in the Middle Ages would have to say. However, Stanton has done[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve long known of The Final Reflection as one of the better Star Trek novels, but I’ve only recently gotten a chance to find out for myself. It lives up to the reputation. These days, it needs to be remembered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Covenants, the first book of Lorna Freeman’s Borderlands series circles around and comes to an end pretty much where it started. The King’s Own picks up very shortly after this, and has the further adventures of Rabbit after the Border[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hughes provides a good overview of the end of the western Empire in this volume. He does analyze things, and come to conclusions, but the primary focus is providing a chronological outline of events. That latter is the primary value[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Napoleonic naval adventure plus dragons. That does pretty well sum it up. Of course, there’s more to it than that. I’ve gotten lots of recommendations for this book, but have put off trying out for a long time as while[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This isn’t quite a sequel to Sing the Four Quarters, since the locale and characters change. However, the world is the same, and the magic is the same, though it ends up elaborated a bit more here. It does take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third and fourth books featured in this collection are better than the first two. Interestingly, they also don’t focus on Chrestomanci, and seem to happen around the same time as the first book (as opposed to decades before as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guy Gavriel Kay is an author who I really, really need to read more of. My first experience with him (Tigana) was very good, and I’ve been meaning to read more for a couple decades now. Thankfully, I was reminded[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You’ve probably never heard of this war. There’s a good reason: John Harrel is the only one calling it that. This book covers what is usually considered two wars, neither of which seems to have any sort ‘official’ name. “Nisibis”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…