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Fun story about a private eye in a world that has an ever increasing number of superbeings – so much so they have formed their own virtual international nation. Including his ex-wife. He’s just a normal guy with a camera, a car and a gun in a very specialised investigatory niche. Especially as he is [...]
First of the Ghost Files series apparently. A couple as ghosthunters. With the woman providing the paranormal power and the bloke the support. Fairly lighthearted for dealing with the dead as the pair banter back and forth in this investigation of a young girl’s spirit from old history of the school. So if looking for [...]
When the vampire puts the whammy on you. 3.5 out of 5
Last of a team, looking to kill some Priests and helping out mother and son in Entity land. 4 out of 5 http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/50326
Good for vampire disposal. 3.5 out of 5
Of old Felport – and a crazy guy who thinks he was the original Chief Sorcerer decides to summon it. 3.5 out of 5
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by David G. Hartwell and Jacob Weisman “Terrifying barbarians, cunning mages, and daring heroes run rampant through these exceptional classics of the exciting sword & sorcery genre. From Robert E. Howard to Jane Yolen, this fast-paced anthology is a chronological gathering of influential, inventive, and entertaining fantasy adventure stories. In “Tower of the Elephant,” Conan [...]
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Some living Vikings, a big dead Viking, a dwarf and a woman bad with jewellery. 4 out of 5
John Taylor, a box and a heart. 3 out of 5
Forge of the Titans is a good old fashioned psionics novel. Apparently that Greek Titans and Gods legend thing – real, but they are energy entities that can do stuff, not mythological creatures. A young yank naval recruit gets co-opted into a secret program becaus he has latent psionic ability – as apparently did his [...]
That’s a Southron demon, the Archivist points out to the bad guy. 3.5 out of 5
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Pocket Universe Fringe. A detective in Empire State – apparently just a city – gets drawn into a case to find a woman’s missing lover, who turns out to be doppelganger. Not the only one. Which leads to the discovery of a parallel universe, two rival superheroes, mad scientists and then of course a battle [...]
A man out of place and on the run ends up at a secret project that has created its own universe in a bottle. Agreeing to be their lab rat and with no other prospects ends up a war leader after rescuing both a prince and princess. Now he gets to help them defeat Lovecraftian [...]
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A fixup of Moorcock’s Sojan The Swordsman stories so that they resemble a novel with some alteration. An ex-Earthman and now mercenary warrior puts his talents to good use with sword and shield and pistol where he can help or just relieve his own boredom. 3 out of 5 A man out of place and [...]
A man out of place and on the run ends up at a secret project that has created its own universe in a bottle. Agreeing to be their lab rat and with no other prospects ends up a war leader after rescuing both a prince and princess. Now he gets to help them defeat Lovecraftian [...]
A fixup of Moorcock’s Sojan The Swordsman stories so that they resemble a novel with some alteration. An ex-Earthman and now mercenary warrior puts his talents to good use with sword and shield and pistol where he can help or just relieve his own boredom. 3 out of 5
High on his throne sat Bran Mak Morn When the sun-god sank and the west was red; He beckoned a girl with his drinking horn, And “Sing me a song of the race,” he said. Her eyes were as dark as the seas of night, Her lips were as red as the setting sun, As, [...]
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One slept beneath the branches dim, Cloaked in the crawling mist, And Richard Grenville came to him And plucked him by the wrist. No nightwind shook the forest deep Where the shadows of Doom were spread, And Solomon Kane awoke from sleep And looked upon the dead. He spake in wonder, not in fear: “How [...]
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It was gloomy land that seemed to hold All winds and clouds and dreams that shun the sun, With bare boughs rattling in the lonesome winds, And the dark woodlands brooding over all, Not even lightened by the rare dim sun Which made squat shadows out of men; they called it Cimmeria, land of Darkness [...]
“In episode 96 of the SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester offers up part one in a special three-part podcast on Sword and Sorcery moderated by editor, author and publicist Jaym Gates. This week’s panel: * Jaym Gates (moderator) * John O’Neill * Howard Andrew Jones * Ryan Anderson * Bill Ward * Jason Waltz * [...]
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Five stories including one curiosity, a round robin work by several authors of note of the period in The Challenge From Beyond. Here the work that the title is drawn from, a great Conan story, is to be found in the middle. Beyond The Black River : The Grisly Horror – Robert E. Howard Beyond [...]
Six stories and one poem in this collection, bookended by the great Conan stories Queen of hte Black Coast and A Witch Shall Be Born. Gardens Of Fear : Queen Of The Black Coast – Robert E. Howard Gardens Of Fear : The Haunter Of The Ring – Robert E. Howard Gardens Of Fear : [...]
Another introduction from Mark Finn and with several poems to finish as well as throughout the rest of the book another top-notch collection, including the brilliant Conan story Red Nails. Black Hounds Of Death : Black Canaan – Robert E. Howard Black Hounds Of Death : Red Nails – Robert E. Howard Black Hounds Of [...]
An excellent collection, led by Pigeons From Hell. It also contains several good poems along with the novel Almuric. Thunder Of Trumpets : Pigeons From Hell – Robert E. Howard Thunder Of Trumpets : A Thunder Of Trumpets – Robert E. Howard Thunder Of Trumpets : Almuric – Robert E. Howard Thunder Of Trumpets : [...]
Accountant taking sword paperwork problems. 3.5 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
Need extra clothes when raiding a wizard. 3.5 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
Lovecraftian monsters – just a really big snack for polar bears. 4 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
Shoot, then chop. 4 out of 5 http://booktionary.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-fiction-jonathan-wood-on.html
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“She’s a pre-feminist action hero, a serious contender for the hardest secret agent around, and she’s a cartoon strip turned into a series of novels. Modesty Blaise predates Lara Croft and Emma Peel, and could beat them hollow: she could probably sort out Bond as well. She’s the original fighting machine, performing in breathtakingly exciting [...]
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” After my recent review of Les Savage’s collection of western stories THE SHADOW IN RENEGADE BASIN, Keith Chapman left a comment about Señorita Scorpion, the aptly named blonde heroine who appeared in one of them. As part of my reply to him, I thought I’d work up a checklist of all of the stories [...]
“Looking over his shoulder, the mugger notices the two looming figures that are now providing an unwanted audience. He turns to face them and tightens the grip on his weapon, leaving one hand on his victim’s throat has he pins her against the wall. “What is this shit?” Cocking his head slightly to the side [...]
A solid take on the coming of superhumans. This time with your dodgy military industrial complex reasons. A down and out MMA fighter has a flush friend take him to a club to get his mind off his 9th consecutive beatdown – and to score chicks. The woman that draws his attention proves to be [...]
“”Flurrrrgh glarrrgh expostulate the rectal rod!” hollered Avila. Oh, intermittently useful telepathic fungus. I’ve learned a great deal about both Martian anatomy and Martian vulgarity in the years since this incident, imaginary reader. To this day I still have no idea what Avila was driving at. Whoosh whoosh hiss. The spider-creature didn’t bellow back at [...]
Continue reading about Unique – Queen of the Iron Sands 7 1 Fifinella and the Invisible Men
“Ye gods, Carson Napier, but are you ever going to do something proactive? The character’s passivity in Carson of Venus starts to get maddening. Perhaps it’s prudent to bide time within the enemy city of Amlot for the right time to act; but in an Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure, heroes should be bombastic and risk-taking, [...]
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“When he came down the stairs, he saw Doctor Orient waiting for him outside the study. He was so thin these days, even thinner than the time he had the trouble with the crazy girl. His dark skin was getting sallow from being indoors so much and his green eyes were washed out and dim. [...]
I need a masked hero. 3 out of 5
A supervillain inventor who has worked his way up from being lamer than Paste Pot Pet into a powered armour force to be reckoned with is the only one capable of saving the world after this universes version of that jerk Tony Stark scres up. The evil Overlord’s brain-enslaving bugs get out when Ultraweapon attacks [...]
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Not as good as the first two in the series, as yet again we get bored by a US presidential election. There’s a conflict in Hell and one bunch want to do the Armageddon on Earth, the others do not. One demon possesses a Republican presidential candidate to get elected and hence Armageddonize. The other [...]
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“Although many of its foundational writers had already sailed into the west, swords and sorcery reached a Weird peak in the 1960s. In 1961 Fritz Leiber coined the term “swords and sorcery” in the journal Ancalagon. The Swordsmen and Sorcerer’s Guild of America (can I get a membership, please?) began the first of its secretive [...]
Penultimate part of an audio serial. 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_224_Zorro_8of9.mp3
An alien agent has undergone surgery to pass as a human and fight an espionage war with their galactic enemies on Earth – to try and sway the humans to their side. However, evolution has gotten in the way, and a super race of mutants with advanced mental abilities co-opt him to work with them [...]
“As citadels that are the embodiment of sheer terror go, Nyarlathotep’s is pretty imposing.” 4 out of 5 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-9-citadel/
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Porky with a problem. 2.5 out of 5 http://www.tyngasreviews.com/2011/08/ffthree-little-pigs-by-justin-gustainis.html
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Adam Smasher decides that maybe the Chairman is right. The super-rich banker hostages he ahs do deserve shooting. He walks away. 4 out of 5 http://escapepod.org/2011/08/04/ep304-union-dues-–-sidekicks-in-stockholm/ http://traffic.libsyn.com/escapepod/EP304_UnionDues_SidekicksInStockholm.mp3
Fake alien Balance tampering ship story. Fake woman too. Most likely. 3.5 out of 5
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Pretty much a perfect biography. While Finn is obviously a writer that has a great affection for his subject it doesn’t mean he sugar coats it, either. I have zero interest in early Texas history for example, but that part of the book was good, too, when he was setting the scene for Howard’s life. [...]
Continue reading about Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard – Mark Finn
A short anthology of planetary romance stories, with Brackett by far the highlight. The Anderson is reasonable and Hamilton’s is fun, complete with lightsaber duels. Swordsmen In the Sky : Swordsman of Lost Terra – Poul Anderson Swordsmen In the Sky : The People of the Crater – Andre Norton Swordsmen In the Sky : [...]
Stuart Merrick is an adventurous sort, broke with no rellos – so a good subject to transport to another world on a planetary romance adventure. This time fighting spider-men with a trusty blaster AND a lightsaber by his side. 3 out of 5
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“I never thought I’d say it, but once you get used to a dimension of fear and chaos, it’s not as bad as it sounds. Yes, it’s driven my partner, Clyde, insane, and yes, it does keep trying to kill me with more and more depraved horrors, but, well it could be worse.” 4 out [...]
Continue reading about The Nyarlathotep Event Case File 8 Interrogation – Jonathan Wood
Part of an audio serial. 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_223_Zorro_7of9.mp3
Were Billy Goat faerie style on the Cubs. 3.5 out of 5
“Reality slips. I stand in a corridor full of doors. I can hear scampering about and above me. And I know I can hear the rats in the walls. I am still afraid. I would still favor flight over fight. But fight I will. Because I can face my fear. Because now, Nyarlathotep, you get [...]
Continue reading about MI37 – The Nyarlathotep Event Case File 7 The I in Team
An omnicollection of the end of Flandry’s career when he is an Admiral and some other Technic history stories. Flandry’s Legacy : A STONE IN HEAVEN – Poul Anderson Flandry’s Legacy : THE GAME OF EMPIRE – Poul Anderson Flandry’s Legacy : A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS – Poul Anderson Flandry’s Legacy : THE NIGHT FACE [...]
An omnibus of three novels set early in Flandry’s career. Young Flandry : ENSIGN FLANDRY – Poul Anderson Young Flandry : A CIRCUS OF HELLS – Poul Anderson Young Flandry : THE REBEL WORLDS – Poul Anderson Flandry is fresh out of the military joint at 19, and shows some quick thinking and nereve in [...]
This omnicollection deals with an experienced Flandry, with the first story highly excellent and the rest only so-so. Sir Dominic Flandry The Last Knight of Terra : THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS – Poul Anderson Sir Dominic Flandry The Last Knight of Terra : HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE – Poul Anderson Sir Dominic Flandry The [...]
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“Punishment is meted out against the unjust merchant and magistrado. However, when the alarm is raised, and the entire pueblo seems to rise up against the masked avenger, Zorro is hard pressed to make any kind of escape.” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_222_Zorro_6of9.mp3
Audio version. 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_221_Zorro_5of9.mp3
“Some days I really get the vastness of the universe. I’m tiny. It’s big. I don’t matter. I get it. Then, some days, you save the world—you know, for example you close an interdimentsional portal infecting the world with madness, kill an avatar of fear called Nyarlathotep when armed only with a bit of two-by-four—and [...]
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“In real life you face down a horde of angry cultists, close an interdimensional portal, high-five your spell-slinging partner, and then you find out there’s a seven-foot tall avatar of fear and chaos who’s all pissed about it and manifested behind you when you weren’t looking. In real life this shit never ends.” 4 out [...]
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“Captain Ramon is caught executing a vicious revenge against the Pulido family. However, once Zorro has stopped this wanton cruelty, he is cornered by Sergeant Garcia’s men inside the presidio. How will he escape?” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_220_Zorro_4of9.mp3
““The Children of Nyarlathotep will stop you!” One of the yellow-robed men is pulling free of the tangled pile of his fellows. ”We will come for you in your dreams. We will unseam your sanity.” Clyde mutters something under his breath. The man’s head slams to the ground, tongue lolling.” 3 out of 5 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/07/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-2-rescue/#more-77403
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Here’s the propaganda :- “If your deepest desires spontaneously manifested into reality – giving you powers and abilities once limited to your dreams – what would you do? Donovan Cole hates reality: his body, his job, his relationship…until one night a violent confrontation outside a nightclub causes him to change – instantly infusing him with [...]
“For the record, it is very difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when you went wrong if a woman with a Laura Ashley dress and blood-stained teeth is rhythmically beating your head against the floor. Just so you know.” 3.5 out of 5 http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/07/the-nyarlathotep-event-by-jonathan-wood-case-file-1-performance/
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“The biggest chupacabra in the pack was only four feet tall, but what they lacked in mass, they made up for in sheer ferocity. Being unable to get to their dinner was making them even surlier than usual. The peasant girl had been futilely tinkering with the engine of her broken-down Chevy Vega when the [...]
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A genuine delight to come across superhero prose like this. A retired superhero (a teleporter) has moved away from the big city to a smaller community and opened a cafe called Tea and Strumpets. A fun name, and her own style is sort of a swing dancing Bettie Page. So of course she is named [...]
Monster Hunter Vendetta is a fun sequel. Owen Pitt is now a veteran on the the top Monster Hunter team. The new recruits in training look up to him. Plus the big nasties want to do bad bad things to him. Use him, drive him crazy, sacrifice him to Elder Gods and all that good [...]
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The final Signs of the Zodiac novel has Joanna trying to survive as a Gray amidst the Shadow and Light conflict, as well as attempt to get her boyfriend back and live long enough to give birth to her kid. This involves some lateral thinking and management given she is currently lacking in the superpower [...]
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“The black-hearted Captain Ramon orchestrates an underhanded meeting with the lovely Lolita. Who will save the honor of the lovely senorita? Her father? Don Diego? Perhaps Senor Zorro?” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_219_Zorro_3of9.mp3
Foreword by Tamora Pierce Introduction by John Joseph Adams The Metal Men of Mars by Joe R. Lansdale Illustrated by Gregory Manchess Three Deaths by David Barr Kirtley Illustrated by Charles Vess The Ape-Man of Mars by Peter S. Beagle Illustrated by Jeremy Bastian A Tinker of Warhoon by Tobias S. Buckell Illustrated by Chrissie [...]
Last part of the audio serial. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_No_193_Michael_Moorcock_Pt_3.mp3
Audio serial reading in a podcast. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_No_192_Michael_Moorcock_Pt_2.mp3
“Don Diego Vega seeks a wife in the spirited Senorita Lolita Pulido. But the senorita is not to be won simply by the promise of wealth and position. Perhaps Senor Zorro will have better success… Johnston McCulley, on The Classic Tales Podcast.” 4.5 out of 5 http://traffic.libsyn.com/classictales/CT_218_Zorro_2of9.mp3
Audio serial reading in a podcast. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_No_191_Michael_Moorcock_pt_1.mp3
“The incredibly pompous Sergeant Pedro Gonzales boasts up and down of what he will do if he ever meets with the masked highwayman known as Zorro. But when the tavern door opens and reveals a black masked stranger, Sergeant Gonzales must put his puffed up boasts to the test. Johnston McCulley, today on The Classic [...]
A book with two different time periods, one where two young girls are students at the mandatory superhuman academy and become friends. The other where they are antagonists. Both have series daddy issues. The Shadow hero Jet’s father went crazy and killed her mother. The Light hero-turned-outlaw Iridium’s father when rogue and supervillainish and has [...]
The final Elric collection in this series contains a new story, a novel, a screenplay, an article, a couple of intros and a reader’s guide to Elric at the end. Which is an odd place to put it – they want you to get all of these books first before you find out where you [...]
Elric is weak, out of drugs and looking for a fabled black plant cure to his condition. Only problem as it turns out that a giant man-eating plant is what he is looking for – and it also finds Melniboneans tasty, as Elric ventures there with some of his kind. 3.5 out of 5
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Tries to sort out the complicated history for people. 4 out of 5
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About the influences, history in France and no more novels. 3 out of 5
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Talks about his own creation being American influenced – so that this is an American homage. 3 out of 5
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In this collection you get a later novel, a short story, some esoterica and a homage, along with some artwork from various previous sources. In the Dream Realms : THE FORTRESS OF THE PEARL – Michael Moorcock In the Dream Realms : ELRIC: THE MAKING OF A SORCERER – Michael Moorcock In the Dream Realms [...]
Continue reading about Elric – The Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melnibone 5 In the Dream Realms
Outline for a proposed four novel series. 3 out of 5
“Magic had drained from the world and technology had once again gained the upper hand. People called it the Post-Shift resonance. Magic came and went as it pleased, flooding the world like a tsunami, dragging bizarre monsters into our reality, stalling engines, jamming guns, eating tall buildings, and vanishing again without warning. Nobody knew when [...]
Magic Slays is also very good. Seems that being an oddball hybrids ends up with you becoming a dodgy low-rent PI. Roland’s Daughter’s Partner the Gunner also fits the description, and ends up working with Kate after being given the boot from the racist organisation that forcibly retired her. So, two women looking to kill [...]
A collection of Wellman’s stories about the Stone Age leader Hok, including some additions set in the same time period and a fragment. The stories display a great deal of consistency in quality. Battle In the Dawn : Battle in the Dawn – Manly Wade Wellman Battle In the Dawn : Hok Goes to Atlantis [...]
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Abigail Irene has Spring Heeled Jack issues. 3.5 out of 5 http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/winter-2011/audio-the-tricks-of-london-by-elizabeth-bear/
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Start of a story in which Hok meets Plorr. 3 out of 5
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Hok decides to literally take a wife – who is not at all pleased with the idea, until he lets her go. 3.5 out of 5
Continue reading about Hok – Battle In the Dawn 6 For The Love Of Oloanna
Martian invade – to find that twelve of them won’t do the job with the Flint people and others have a quick witted leader. Even in the face of rayguns. 3.5 out of 5
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Hok becomes a young chief when his father is killed, and leads his tribe in savage defense against the Neanderthals that occupy the area they have travelled to. 3.5 out of 5
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A meteor brings Hok the means to make a sword. 3.5 out of 5
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“I always assumed that if you have a clandestine organization then you’d have a clandestine headquarters. Stands to reason. And—I concede this point—Oxford is, admittedly, short on skull-shaped volcanoes. Shark-infested waters—ditto. But there is some pretty awesome architecture. Dreaming spires and all that. I always thought you could bury something beneath the limestone columns and [...]
“What kind of resources did you have when you wrote Conan the Barbarian? Were you given a synopsis? Script? Outline? I got sent a copy of the script and then got to watch a rough-cut of the movie before I started. I also got sent a lot of production stills so I could study them [...]
Wraithy Sleeper retcon. 3 out of 5 http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/06/ghost-girl-takes-manhattan
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Jonathan Wood has come up with a secret government department that protects the UK from monsters story that might be what you get if you crossed Caballistics, Inc with Hellboy and only gave them the budget of the unit in New Tricks or Taggart. Plus a 15% off frequent buyers card for all Duracell purchases. [...]
An ex-lawyer cop learns the ropes, and solves a fraternity assault and ace clothes snatcher problem. 4 out of 5 http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/06/the-rook?start=1
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Murdock and Victrix get to go back into the super-nazi killin’ business. 3.5 out of 5 http://media.podiobooks.com/swc4wd/PB-SecretWorldChronicle4-23.mp3
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Time for some cracking and berating for the CCCP and allies. 3.5 out of 5 http://media.podiobooks.com/swc4wd/PB-SecretWorldChronicle4-22.mp3
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A continuation of the mashup of Spy Homage (this time to the Quiller series by Adam Hall) and Lovecraftian technogeekery. The usual sort of shenanigans, but getting bleaker as we discover who Bob’s boss actually is and that largely, doomsday cults of Elder Gods are probably right. Also feature’s Bob’s SO Mo quite a bit, [...]
““You’ve got the wrong house,” he said conversationally. The invigilator’s face mottled with anger. “How do you dare to-“ “No, you’re not listening to me.” Egar kept his voice patient and gentle. “There’s obviously been some mistake back at the Citadel. Pashla Menkarak isn’t keeping you up to date. When he sent you down here, [...]
Continue reading about Penultimate Pre-pub Taste: The Cold Commands – Richard Morgan
