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Cursor’s Fury, by Jim Butcher

Why start with the third novel in Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera series? Well, it’s the best way to evaluate a series: how strong is the overall story, how complete is the world, how engaging are the characters, and how capable is the author (particularly with backstory)? In this case, Butcher excels in all areas. From [...]

Cursor's Fury, by Jim Butcher

Why start with the third novel in Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series? Well, it's the best way to evaluate a series: how strong is the overall story, how complete is the world, how engaging are the characters, and how capable is the author (particularly with backstory)? In this case, Butcher excels in all areas. From [...]

I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells 0 (0)

I’d never have wandered by this book in the bookstore (online or brick-and-morter). But I encountered this book in the strangest of places: on my mother’s kitchen counter. I stopped, in surprise, and picked it up. “Did you buy this?” I asked her. It looked to be mainstream with a horror bent, or just plain [...]

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I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells

I'd never have wandered by this book in the bookstore (online or brick-and-morter). But I encountered this book in the strangest of places: on my mother's kitchen counter. I stopped, in surprise, and picked it up. "Did you buy this?" I asked her. It looked to be mainstream with a horror bent, or just plain [...]

Year’s (2004) Best SF, 21st Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois 0 (0)

The problem with short stories, both in reading them and trying to get them published, is that they're so subjective. As they say about Beauty, Story and Character are also in the eye of the beholder.

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Year’s (2004) Best SF, 21st Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

The problem with short stories, both in reading them and trying to get them published, is that they're so subjective. As they say about Beauty, Story and Character are also in the eye of the beholder.

Year's (2004) Best SF, 21st Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois

The problem with short stories, both in reading them and trying to get them published, is that they're so subjective. As they say about Beauty, Story and Character are also in the eye of the beholder.

Ariel, by Steven R. Boyett (and Thoughts About Updating Backlist) 0 (0)

Back cover, which is a good summation: It’s been five years since the change… Five years since the lights went out, cars stopped in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming the towns and countrysides of Earth. Pete Garey, a young loner who survived the Change and the madness that followed, spent two years wandering [...]

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Ariel, by Steven R. Boyett (and Thoughts About Updating Backlist)

Back cover, which is a good summation: It's been five years since the change… Five years since the lights went out, cars stopped in the streets, and magical creatures began roaming the towns and countrysides of Earth. Pete Garey, a young loner who survived the Change and the madness that followed, spent two years wandering [...]

Knight’s Curse, by Karen Duvall 0 (0)

From the back cover: Orphan. Crusader. Angel. Thief. A skilled knife fighter since the age of nine, Chalice knows what it’s like to live life on the edge—precariously balanced between the dark and the light. But the time has come to choose. The evil sorcerer who kidnapped her over a decade ago requires her superhuman [...]

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