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Alan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Alan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Alan Loewen
Goodreads Author
Born
in Easthampton, NY, The United States
November 01, 1954
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February 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/alanloewen
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Opal Wine
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2012
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2 editions
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Dark Dreams and Darker Visions: Ten Stories of Dark Fantasy
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2013
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Come Into My Cellar: Darker Tales From A Cerebral Vault
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2015
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The Seven Sisters
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2014
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2 editions
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In Humor Most Odd: The Collected Silliness of Alan Loewen
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2012
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2 editions
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Rowan Dreaming
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In Search of the Creators
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Worlds of Mystery
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Patterns
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Sawyer
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2011
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New Release Upcoming
Keep your eyes open for a new release from yours truly. A blend of SF and detective noir.
Target is a February 28th release.
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I Didn’t See That Coming I was fully expecting a rather predictable trope when it comes to dolls overly loved by a child and overly hated by a parent, but the ending surprised me. I won’t give the ending it away, but I had to read it twice to make sur ...more |
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An Interesting Experimental Story Told in the second person singular, the reader becomes the writer of a journal that corrects, adds details, and makes notations in the margins that are borderline mocking. If the story was longer, it would seem pretent ...more |
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A Gory Intro This is a manga that takes place in Tokyo when an earthquake unleashes a very violent kaiju. Warning: there is a lot of gore in the final pages. This is only a sample of the first chapter. |
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Great SF Horror I very much enjoyed this novel with its fully fleshed out characters and a plot that keeps you thinking until the final page. I think I saw two grammatical errors, but they were inconsequential. The story of a mine that breaks through i ...more |
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Reads Like a SyFy Movie Channel Plot … oh. Wait a sec. (I can’t comment anymore without giving spoilers). The story is painfully simple. A family flees Atlanta that is under siege by trillions of man-eating insects. The story was rushed into print too q ...more |
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Enjoyable Creature SF Horror Though it could have used the services of an editor, Nightcrawlers was an enjoyable read, reminding me much of the pulp SF from the 30s and 40s. I thought of a similar solution to the problem about halfway through the book ...more |
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A Charming Detective Noir Short Story Taking place during prohibition on Christmas Eve, Detective Sam runs into two young girls living on the streets. The result is a charming Christmas story told by a storyteller who knows the genre. It would be fun ...more |
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Very Good Anthology of Horror Avoiding the tropes that make many horror stories feel old and stale, this collection contains different takes on monsters so common in today’s horror: zombies, vampires, ghosts, etc. for this reviewer it was a refreshing ...more |
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“Lichilai, a Sung poet, has sadly remarked that there were three most deplorable things in the world: the spoiling of fine youths through false education, the degradation of fine art through vulgar admiration, and the utter waste of fine tea through incompetent manipulation.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
