Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerOkay, first, it should be noted that this novel certainly happens in the time of the original series. In fact, it seems like it’s fairly early in, and Sulu isn’t entirely sure of his position on the ship, and is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “part 1, volume 1” bit may be a bit confusing. There is a big website in Japan for posting web novels (Shousetsuka ni Narou). Basically, a non-fanfic version of things like AO3. It is basically the testing ground for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is basically three works under one cover, as the sections on the three most well-known Confederate Ranger leaders are all independent of each other. There’s no general section on rangers, or their employment by less-successful leaders to tie things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s second YA epic fantasy series sprawls less than Children of Ynell/World of Ere did, but doesn’t really reach the highs of that series. That probably has to do with the choice of main character. Teb is closer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is difficult for a general history to maintain a central thesis and remain informative, and be entertaining. One of Catton’s gifts is that he does it quite well here. Terrible Swift Sword picks up in the immediate aftermath of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’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…