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Tag Archives: fantasy
Steven Brust’s Jhegaala
One reaches a point in any fantasy series where one wonders if the author has anything left to say. Too many of them don’t and the series peters out into another ongoing and often lame effort to feed the fans. … Continue reading
Steven Brust’s Iorich
I’ve noted before how Steven Brust manages to keep an ongoing series alive by the simple expedient of presenting the protagonist with new challenges in each volume. In Iorich, the latest installment of The Taltos Cycle, he’s presented Vlad Taltos … Continue reading
Steven Brust’s Dzur
Dzur is the tenth in the Taltos Cycle. Brust said at one point that there was the distinct possibility of seventeen volumes in this series, unless he died or got bored with it, but I have a feeling that boredom … Continue reading
Craig Thompson’s Habibi
Craig Thompson’s Habibi is a sprawling tale (that’s 672 pages of sprawling) that relates the adventures of two lostlings, the girl verging on womanhood Dodola, and the much younger Zam, a boy who she finds lost in the desert. They … Continue reading
Charles de Lint’s Moonheart
Moonheart may very well be the first novel by Charles de Lint that I ever read. I can’t really say for sure — it’s been awhile. It certainly is one that I reread periodically, a fixture on my “reread often” … Continue reading
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Richard Adams’ Tales from Watership
Matthew Scott Winslow penned this review. I must admit that I didn’t approach this book with enthusiasm. I originally read Watership Down when I was 17, after having seen the animated film, and the book left an impression on my young mind. As … Continue reading
Richard Adams’ Watership Down
Matthew Scott Winslow penned this review. ‘Matt,’ my mother once told me, ‘sometimes you’re so close to the world that you must step back in order to see the finer details more clearly.’ In life we go our way, looking closely … Continue reading
Stardust
Elizabeth Vail penned this review. In this film, based on Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name, Tristan (Charlie Cox), a young shop boy bedazzled by village belle Victoria (Sienna Miller), promises to find and recover a fallen star in return for … Continue reading
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Escape From Hell
When last we met Allen Carpenter, he was about to climb back into Hell. Back up Satan’s huge leg and onto the vast plain of ice that was the final, inner circle of Dante’s Inferno, to pursue his self-imposed mission of … Continue reading
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Inferno
Larry Niven is one of the giants of contemporary fantastic fiction. He’s written some of the best and most innovative hard science fiction of the last 40 years; he has managed new and unique takes on classic fantasy themes just … Continue reading