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A short novel of two strands Birth of an Artist and The Present All of which leads Henry to a confrontation with a monster below. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Painted Darkness – Brian James Freeman
Farm boy with not so good childhood gets out of there and becomes a dodgy bloke named Ferret. A conflict with an even worse nogoodnik ends up in some deaths, and he moves on to be trained as a martial arts trained warrior priest and leader of the birth of a rebellion about the interstellar [...]
The Shadow has to deal with a madman who wants all the world’s gold supply – employing his own titular method of getting rid of people to help him to get there. Even if they are Secret Service agents. 3 out of 5
Horse war. 3 out of 5
I’m an alien. 3 out of 5 http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/stabback_12_11/
Continue reading about In Which Faster-than-light Travel Solves All Of Our Problems – Chris Stabback
The Al-Buraq, a ship capable of instantaneous interstellar travel starts doing its thing with its crew. What they run into isn’t very nice. Something is devouring large swathes of interstellar real estate. And what do you do if this is actually something alive? A maker, destroyer or universal being and the means to communicate with. [...]
Continue reading about The Unreasoning Mask – Philip Jose Farmer
Opened the second of this series first apparently, but no big deal. Space adventure with a guy and his robots. And strange boojum things and all of course being a long way from home. Shipworlds, meerkat-like aliens. And our protagonist is no emo whiner loser. Pretty much nothing fazes him, which is very entertaining. Although [...]
Continue reading about Strange Attractors – Jeffrey A. Carver
Fighting a monster. And a bad plan. 3 out of 5
For the premise – cities being overrun by nasties, it is a bit on the bland side. Not breezy enough for light adventure fantasy with airships and not enough horror for the weird. Stuck in the middle with endothermic ammunition. Points for the actual gear of the place there. Not zero imagination brass and clockwork [...]
Or, kill the white guys, they stole the sister. 3 out of 5
Add one Captain Marvel and one Talking Tiger to fix that. 3 out of 5
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John Taylor, a box and a heart. 3 out of 5
Some dinosaurs and bastardry with a lot of family boredom. 3 out of 5
Mary Benet story. 3 out of 5
Mary Benet story. 3 out of 5
One dead parrot. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Novel Excerpt The Desert Of Souls – Howard Andrew Jones
Big one, Tash. 3 out of 5
Bad Prime. Only need one planet here. 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 [...]
Youtube book trailer. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Blue Remembered Earth – Alastair Reynolds
Need for young. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about The Birth of Water Cities – Angela Rega
Hitler Youth find. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Europe After the Rain – Lee Battersby
Innkeeper pray. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about When the Bone Men Come – Peter Cooper
Animal stories. 3 out of 5
Various types of women. 3 out of 5
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 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
Continue reading about Sojan the Swordsman – Michael Moorcock
Dragon, Doc. 3 out of 5
Needing both to survive. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword – 03 Brule: The Spear And The Siren
Time for the blade part. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword – 03 The Sonora Kid: Knife Bullet And Noose
This book makes you crazy. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword – 01 John Silent The Earthbound Dead
Deciding to go their own house. 3 out of 5
Sinister recount, with snowball. 3 out of 5
Colossusnaut Kitty breakup. Cyclops lays down the law to puny human boss. 3 out of 5
Master of the world problem. 3 out of 5
Crazy guy on the run. 3 out of 5
Sick, too, and stuck in yucky past chasing something bad. 3 out of 5
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Grad Nan Holt hurting, kid. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about X-Men – X-Men Legacy 255 Five Miles South of the Universe 2
Staying, going and annoying names. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about X-Men – Generation Hope 12 Half As Bright
One help out wheelman job too many. 3 out of 5
A crazy archangel, some horsemen and a psycho cyborg means Deadpool and Fantomex are the nice ones. 3 out of 5
Continue reading about X-Men – Uncanny X-Force 15 The Dark Angel Saga 5 Tabula Rasa
Just a copy with a serial killer for a dad. 3 out of 5
20 million dollars of plastic surgery gets you a schoolteacher from Wisconsin. 3 out of 5
