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 BootsThe second book of the Revolutions trilogy is a rarity for me. I actually read the first book early enough to be eagerly anticipating the release of the second. In general, it has lived up to the anticipation. It does[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The eighth Suzumiya book is structurally different from before. The series has been a combination of short story collections and novels. This time, we get two novellas. The first one circles back around to the start of the series and[…]↓ 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…
I never got to see all of it, but the 1992 PBS miniseries on The Prize was very good, and was part of what launched this book to superstar status. That, and coming out right after the First Gulf War[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Julia Ecklar wrote a number of short stories (in Analog, and a few anthologies), but no novels, which might explain why this Star Trek novel is more of a short story collection. However, she did later write other TOS novels[…]↓ 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…
This is the same length as the other New Frontiers books, but it feels just a bit meatier, and more than just a longer episode. Also, the subplots feel more natural to the overall plot this time. There’s still odd[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the description, this is a through examination of one particular speech Abraham Lincoln gave at the start of his second career in politics. That’s actually a very incomplete description. This book is much more about all the history surrounding[…]↓ 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…