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 BootsWhile 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…
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…
Basically the last in the line of Dilvish stories, this is the biggest (the others being short stories), and the most Zelazny. Not to say you can’t tell who wrote the others, but this one has the space to spread[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The introduction to this book is interesting, as we find there is something of a path to this second book that leads through another book on to another. Essentially, Wrede wrote a sequel, then wrote a book in between (this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This covers the second half of the initial anime season. (Or, much more properly, the anime covers this.) It retains the format of being smaller stories stitched together. The book gives them as chapters, but they are separate stories, connected[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of Spice and Wolf is also the second half of the first season/cour of the original anime adaptation (I haven’t seen the recent one yet), and again that follows this pretty closely. The central plot once again[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My copy of this book is enhanced by an interesting preface, where Brian Sanderson talks about the particular challenges of writing this book. Apparently, he’d been writing various books for a while, finishing them, moving on to the next book.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third part of The History of Middle Earth is much rougher going for me, as it mostly a couple of very long poems, which I never do so well with. It does gain interest for a couple bits of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part two of Mating Flight picks up slightly after the first book ended. Trest was conquered at the end of the previous book, and there’s plenty of problems as they don’t realize it yet. Related problems are actually something of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, with the title and subtitle, my original thought that this would be a look at draconic culture where power politics flows around and through the aspects of mating, and you know, not getting killed in the world. I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…