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The Course of Empire

Cover to Cover #241: K. D. Wentworth and Illustrators of the Future

December 18, 2006June 21, 2024 | 3 Comments
Dead Reign by T. A. Pratt

Cover to Cover #337A: T. A. Pratt

November 26, 2008June 9, 2024 | 1 Comment

Cover to Cover #102: Megan Morrison / Danielle Ackley-McPhail

February 23, 2004February 9, 2008
The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller

Cover to Cover #290B: Karen Miller

December 20, 2007June 7, 2024 | 4 Comments
All the Windwracked Stars

Cover to Cover #343A: Elizabeth Bear

January 6, 2009June 11, 2024 | 2 Comments
Elantris

Cover to Cover #174: Brandon Sanderson / Steve Alten

July 11, 2005June 13, 2024 | 7 Comments

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Review: “Across The Nightingale Floor” by Lian Hearn

Review: “Across The Nightingale Floor” by Lian Hearn

Tee Morris | December 18, 2004May 27, 2024 | 2 Comments

Billed as “Asian Fantasy,” Across the Nightingale Floor is an epic tale of revenge, intrigue, and love unrequited. At least, that is what the book jacket says. The writing style could have ascended me to a higher plane of enlightenment, but its absent plot, vapid characters, and stilted dialog made me want to commit hari-kari.

Guest Review: “Dead Reckoning” by Charlaine Harris

Guest Review: “Dead Reckoning” by Charlaine Harris

Summer Brooks | July 22, 2011June 7, 2024

I get a bit exhausted for Sookie. There are always someone or some things “out to get her.” Throughout Book 11, there are constant threats from different sources, and Sookie is on high alert most of the novel. Sookie still struggles with being a good person, for her world is continually violent and evil visits her seemingly day in and day out. In Dead Reckoning, you don’t see her grow much as a character, as she doesn’t have time to do much of anything except try to stay alive.

Review: “Black Blade Blues” by J. A. Pitts

Review: “Black Blade Blues” by J. A. Pitts

Tia Bowman | August 13, 2010June 4, 2024

The thing I love about urban fantasy is that it doesn’t take place in some pretend land where everyone can shoot lightning from their eyeballs – it’s here, where we live. There’s always the little extra bit of excitement that it could happen when the story is set in a town you’ve been to, maybe even lived in.

Review: “Hydrogen Steel” by K. A. Bedford

Review: “Hydrogen Steel” by K. A. Bedford

Tim Adamec | February 19, 2007June 3, 2024 | 1 Comment

Hydrogen Steel could have been (cue the cheesy SciFi Echo) “Detectives In Space” but, thankfully, it’s not. The story meanders between a mystery and an espionage tale, nimbly dances on the edge of hard Science Fiction and throws in a heavy philosophical element for good measure.

Review: William Shakespeare’s “Star Wars” (Audiobook)

Review: William Shakespeare’s “Star Wars” (Audiobook)

Stephen Carpenter | November 6, 2013May 30, 2024

Seeming like a gag gift to get for people like me — where you know that we like Star Wars but you’re not sure what exactly we already possess in our collection — William Shakespeare’s Star Wars is an audiobook full of surprising quality and intelligence that should delight any fan of The Bard or of the Beard of George Lucas.

Review: “Inkspell” by Cornelia Funke

Review: “Inkspell” by Cornelia Funke

Darcy Low | February 16, 2008July 4, 2024 | 2 Comments

The book is filled with drawing from the person that wrote the book!! Cornella Funke and really helps you to picture all the people in it. There is also two things in this book that wasn’t in the first one, she put in a hand drawn map!! And there is a dictionary, and a place that tells all about the characters. So if you didn’t read the first book, that’s cool. You can read this and you will be all caught up!

Review: “Queen Ferris” by S. C. Butler

Review: “Queen Ferris” by S. C. Butler

Tim Adamec | January 26, 2008June 6, 2024

The second book in S. C. Butler’s Stoneways Trilogy continues where Reiffen’s Choice ends. The story spans more than seven years beginning with Reiffen’s return to the Three magical instruction. This book focuses equally on the growth of Reiffen, Ferris and Avender to good effect.

Review: “Calculating God” by Robert J. Sawyer

Review: “Calculating God” by Robert J. Sawyer

Joe Murphy | June 13, 2003May 31, 2024

If you read science fiction, you have to read Robert J. Sawyer. That’s all there is to it.

Calculating God explores such mundane questions as “Was the universe designed by an intelligent creator?” “Is there a God?” “Does he influence the affairs of man?” “Why is there life in the universe?” Sawyer’s answers are the most imaginative you will ever read.

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