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The Briar King by Greg Keyes

Cover to Cover #46: Greg Keyes

January 23, 2003June 9, 2024
Judas Unchained

Cover to Cover #209: Peter F. Hamilton

March 13, 2006June 11, 2024 | 5 Comments

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

February 23, 2004February 9, 2008
Thirteen Orphans by Jane Lindskold

Cover to Cover #339A: Jane Lindskold

December 8, 2008June 8, 2024 | 2 Comments
Battlestar Galactica (2003)

Cover to Cover #144: Richard Hatch / David Lee Summers

December 13, 2004June 27, 2024
Blackout by Connie Willis

Cover to Cover #398A: Connie Willis

March 1, 2010June 17, 2024

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Review: “Seven Seasons of Buffy”

Review: “Seven Seasons of Buffy”

Summer Brooks | November 30, 2004May 31, 2024

I try to avoid reading books out of order, and while it usually wouldn’t matter in this case, my having read Five Seasons of Angel before this one brings a couple of things to mind… the foremost being that while editor Glenn Yeffeth obtained fewer essays for the Angel collection, he also seems to have obtained more highly engaging essays for the it than for the Buffy collection. While that may sound like a minor slam of the Buffy collection, it’s not… it’s a big time golf-clap salute.

Review: “No Dominion” by Charlie Huston

Review: “No Dominion” by Charlie Huston

Tim Adamec | January 4, 2007June 1, 2024 | 4 Comments

The book is marvelously written and very heavy on dialogue and vivid, yet dark, descriptions. Twists and turns abound, unfolding the story at a steady pace. It is also written as a first-person, present tense story, a style that I usually find jarring and unbelievable.

Review: “Night Rising” by Chris Marie Green

Review: “Night Rising” by Chris Marie Green

Jane Litte | February 19, 2007August 10, 2024 | 3 Comments

The story is fast paced and filled with enough gory fight scenes to please the hard core urban fantasy reader but with a surprisingly emotional layer that may appeal to the female reader. It fails to deliver a complete world building construct and this coupled with the tendency to leave more plot threads open than resolved left this reader dissatisfied.

Review: “Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana”

Review: “Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana”

Joe Murphy | June 11, 2003May 31, 2024

The idea of reading a book written by two people who had never even met was too cool to pass up. And I also felt like I should be supporting Bookcrazy and The Dragonpage by actually buying their authors’ books. So I sent Amazon.com my $23.95 (dear Lord, for a PAPERBACK! BTW, it is now available for $19.95). About six weeks later, Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana was sitting in my doorstep, wrapped in a plain brown package.

It was worth every fucking cent.

This is a good book. Not a good “first novel”. A good novel. Tee, Lisa, you should be very proud of yourselves.

Review: “Light” by M. John Harrison

Review: “Light” by M. John Harrison

David Moldawer | April 6, 2006June 5, 2024

What makes Light so special, and so very much worth your attention, is that no matter how “far out” Harrison takes things—very far out indeed, if you’re wondering—he remains primarily concerned with human stories, human dilemmas. There are three main characters in this book who (almost) never interact in the course of the story, though their lives are all intertwined and eventually come together.

Review: “Five Seasons of Angel”

Review: “Five Seasons of Angel”

Summer Brooks | November 17, 2004May 31, 2024

You know that a pop culture staple has gone far beyond the normal range of fandom and reached saturation when serious academic studies relating to the psychology, philosophy, and morality of show and of its characters are being published.

To my knowledge, only Buffy the Vampire Slayer (with two academic conferences dedicated to it so far) and Godzilla fall into that category, but Buffy’s spinoff, Angel, should be right beside them.

Classic Review: “On A Pale Horse” by Piers Anthony

Classic Review: “On A Pale Horse” by Piers Anthony

Joe Murphy | March 10, 2004May 30, 2024

After listening to the interview with Piers Anthony, I decided to try one of the books in his “Incarnations of Immortality” series. The first book in the series is titled On a Pale Horse.

Review: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J. K. Rowling

Review: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” by J. K. Rowling

Joe Murphy | July 22, 2005May 30, 2024 | 7 Comments

It’s pretty sad when you’re 33 years old and the highlight of your year is when the next new children’s book is finally out on the market. Deciding to skip the ridiculous lines and midnight “parties,” I pre-ordered my copy online, and only had to chew the tablecloth for four hours from when I woke up at eight o’clock, till the postman finally delivered my book at noon on Saturday.

And, just like last I did with Order of the Phoenix, I forgoed (forgew? forwent?) everything, and did nothing but read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (stopping for the occasional bathroom break) until I finished Sunday afternoon.

God, I love being a geek.

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