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Ariel by Steven R. Boyett
Despite a couple of important plot elements dating the novel, the story itself holds up 25 years later and worked on a very powerful and emotional level for me. Included is an afterword reflecting on the book and some insight to the novel. One thing that is remarkable about the novel [...]
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Infoquake: Book One of the Jump 225 Trilogy by David Louis Edelman
Free enterprise, for all its impersonal Darwinian ruthlessness, motivates technology’s evolution like nothing else. However altruistic someone’s initial motives might be in developing new technologies, the process will inevitably fall into the hands of a marketplace whose most aggressive alpha players will quickly shut [...]
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Broken Angels by Richard K. Morgan
Broken Angels takes place in a future where the concept of “re-sleeving” your consciousness means that lifetimes stretch on for centuries, and bodies can be manufactured to accommodate any function. Kovacs has been around a long time – as an Envoy he was part of a particularly brutal special military [...]
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Servant of a Dark God by John Brown
The other great positive is the world that Brown creates. The setting feels fresh and the magic of the land is just unique enough. The culture of the people is also quite fascinating – Brown’s take on oppressed peoples feels real enough at times to make me genuinely [...]
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Shadow Prowler (Chronicles of Siala) by Alexey Pehov
Shadow Prowler is a novel that will appeal to fans of Stan Nicholls or Michael Moorcock. It is an epic quest story full of action sequences and little downtime for extended or protracted introspection. Highly entertaining, Shadow Prowler hits all the right marks, and epic fantasy fans are [...]
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Twelve Kingdoms – Paperback Edition Volume 2: Sea of Wind by Fuyumi Ono
Although this is a prequel of sorts to the actual first book, I would recommend beginning with book one. Keiki, a significant character from the previous novel, does make an appearance in this one and I think having previous knowledge about him makes [...]
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Dust of Dreams: Book Nine of The Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
It takes a while for the proverbial shit to hit the fan, but when it does Steven Erikson caps it all off with a bang. Indeed, the author closes the show with epic battle scenes reminiscent of Capustan and Coral. The [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
Nights of Villjamur (Legends of the Red Sun 1) by Mark Charan Newton
I was caught in the spell of “Nights of Villjamur†but the end of the novel didn’t bring my release and I was left wondering about the outcome of its story. Mark Charan Newton shows in his novel a great potential, for him [...]
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City without End (Entire and the Rose, Book 3) by Kay Kenyon
Lush, captivating and entrancing – City Without End is both a solid novel on its own and a great furthering of the story Kenyon is telling in this saga. There was a strong sense of closure upon the conclusion of the volume, but the [...]
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
The novel benefits from Smith’s weaving of historic events into the fabric of his characters’ lives. The backdrop of the Soviet Union, with its necessary secrecy and inner conflict, makes it easy to connect with the characters. As a thriller, though, it resorts to somewhat formulaic, deus-ex-machina plot elements. [...]
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The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
about 11 months ago
I read this expecting a fantasy novel that changed the rules, all it did was take a parallel of set rules and telling a story I’ve seen before, albeit very tightly and enjoyable. So, the main character is gay? That doesn’t change it up all that much and it really did seem as if Morgan was attempting to ridicule the hero-type of fantasy novels past.
Still, I enjoyed it and I will get the sequels – it is the first of a planned trilogy.