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The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas - Review

The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas
I’ve always loved reading about dragons but completely agree with those who say that, recently, dragons have had their claws clipped to make them that little bit more accessible to readers. Anne McCaffrey’s dragons are the chief culprits and Naomi Novik’s Temeraire is steadily losing that air of a dangerous [...]

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Dragon and Liberator by Timothy Zahn - Review

Dragon and Liberator: The Sixth Dragonback Adventure (Dragonback) by Timothy Zahn
So, it’s not a great book by any means. But it is fun. And the series is wrapped up quite satisfactorily — we learn what we wanted to know: who is Alison Kayna? what is Jack’s future? where do the K’Da really come from? All [...]

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Brisingr by Christopher Paolini - Interview

Brisingr (Inheritance, Book 3) by Christopher Paolini
Christopher Paolini–the 24-year-old best-selling author of the novels Eragon and Eldest–told SCI FI Wire that his new novel, Brisingr, continues the adventures of the farm-boy-turned-dragon-rider Eragon and the dragon Saphira.
In Brisingr, Paolini said that readers will discover a ship made of grass, a forest made of stone and a [...]

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson - Review

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
The original Swedish title of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was the much more blunt Män som hatar kvinnor — ‘Men who hated women’ — and while not quite as catchy or appealing that is much closer to the mark. Not only because there are some men who [...]

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Two Neal Asher books!

Line War (Agent Cormac 5)
The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent [...]

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