Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThis is a prequel to Jensen’s Malediction Trilogy, and as such I recommend you read that first. And I do, indeed, recommend that you read the trilogy, it’s quite good. This book is up to the general standard of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, first off, if you can’t tell by the cover, this is a horse book. Which is perfectly fine, and has a great literary tradition, though I never went through a horse phase. (Being a guy might have something to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mark got me a copy of Necromancer for Christmas, so I put together a Vassal module, and we tested that back in March. (I plan on releasing it after one more test session.) As one of the old SJG pocket-box[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Tomoe Goezen book is in the same format as the first: Four nearly independent novellas under one cover, with no more than scene breaks within them. Like last time, they are different stories, with different tones, but there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is another Andre Norton that I’m sure I read ages ago, but don’t have any clear memories of anymore. This is the first of the “High Hallack” Witch World novels, which I always generally enjoyed more than the Estcarp[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the original Forgotten Realms boxed set, Evermeet is a somewhat mysterious place off the map, where the elves have slowly been retreating to as their continental holdings fall. It’s impossible not to compare with Tolkien at that point, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fourth book of the Queen’s Thief series changes main characters again. This time, honors go to Sophos, returning from a primary character role in The Thief. The first section of the book is entirely arranged as him telling what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have the Kindle version of this, which means there’s a few OCR glitches scattered about. However, unlike most such I’ve seen, they don’t become more prevalent the further through the book you go. Overall, the electronic version is in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In one sense, you could see this as a somewhat typical visitation fantasy. Person gets transported from our world to fantasy land, gets in trouble, has adventures, comes back home. As ever, the secret is in the details. Stormwrack has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again, we get a change in format with the third book of the “Queen’s Thief” series. This time, we get an all-new main character, and… almost all the story is told from the viewpoint of Costis. Costis is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…