January 2025
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KIM STANLEY ROBINSON: APPRENTICESHIPS IN NARRATIVE – Andrew Rowcroft

I am a sucker for anything by or about Kim Stanley Robinson. Since I first read The Gold Coast sometime in the late 1980’s or early 90’s; I haven’t missed any of his books since. So, when I see a book about Robinson, or examining his work, I’m all in. What I don’t like, is reading a Continue reading
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THE NEWSPAPER GIRL – Colton Balvanz

Many years ago Amazon created something called “Kindle Worlds” which was essentially a legitimate means of publishing fan fiction. The idea was that certain works of fiction were licensed by Amazon so that authors could write fiction in the world(s), and using characters created by the original author. Sort of like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead but Continue reading
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WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS – Grady Hendrix

Wow. This was incredible! I would count Grady Hendrix as one of my favorite authors, based, now, on the last six fiction novels of his I’ve read. His books are dark and quirky, a fantastic blend of horror and coming of age. I thought that this book was the least dark and horrific (in the Continue reading
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ZACHARETH: A VILLAINS COLLECTION NOVEL – Robbie MacNiven

The novel follows Zachareth, first as a young boy living in his father’s castle, Castle Talon. Moving into his teens, Zachareth is like a lot of boys his age – he doesn’t get along with his father, he hates his studies, and, in Zachareth’s case, he doesn’t trust his father’s advisor – the elf Leanna. Continue reading
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THE VILLAGE LIBRARY DEMON-HUNTING SOCIETY – C.M. Waggoner

Sherry Pinkwhistle is the village librarian. She’s also become the local, amateur detective, solving a number of murders. But the number of murders happening in her small New England town, is disturbing to her. Nobody else in town seems to think it’s out of the ordinary but Sherry is convinced there’s something supernatural afoot. But Continue reading
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A DROP OF CORRUPTION – Robert Jackson Bennett

Investigator Ana Dolabra and her assistant, Dinios Kol, are called to Yarrowdale, a community at the far edge of the Empire, to investigate what appears to be an impossible crime. A Treasury officer disappeared, abducted from his quarters where the doors and windows were stilled locked from the inside and the entire building is under Continue reading
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MONSIEUR EEK – David Ives

I fully admit that my main interest in reading this is because of the author, David Ives. I’ve seen a number of his short plays (I used to judge high school one act plays and if there was a year without a David Ives play, it was an unusual year). His plays are tremendously funny Continue reading
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GAUDI AFTERNOON – Barbara Wilson

Cassandra Reilly works as a translator. She’s an American, living in London, when a friend (of a friend), Frankie Stevens, calls and asks for her help. The friend (of a friend) needs someone who is fluent in Spanish to accompany them to Barcelona to locate her missing husband, Ben. Cassandra sees this is an easy Continue reading
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MONSTER MOVIE! – Chuck Wendig

Ethan Pitowski is afraid of just about everything, so when he (along with the entire class) is invited to a classmate’s house to watch a horror movie, Ethan isn’t too keen on the idea – even though it is the most popular by in school. Ethan’s friends, knowing of Ethan’s fears, encourage him to attend Continue reading
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WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE – John Scalzi

For no reason that anyone can understand, Earth’s moon one day quite unexpectedly turns into a massive, round cheese ball (or, as NASA refers to it – “a newly developed organic matrix”). The moon appears to have the same mass but it has increased in size. It is also causing some massive ejections of its Continue reading
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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS: ASYLUM – Una McCormack

Una Chin-Riley is the poster girl for Starfleet: smart, driven, and dedicated. She’s a by-the-book student, not afraid to ask questions and to quote the manual when she thinks something is being done incorrectly. And like all really good students, she’s also active in extra-curricular activities. She’s often the lead in the Academy-produced opera and Continue reading
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STAR TREK: MISSIONS END – graphic novel
It’s never been told before, but finally we can read about the final mission of the Starship Enterprise. It’s been five years and Captain Kirk and his crew have encountered many new life forms and discovered many inhabited worlds but will this mission bring about the end of the Federation itself? The mission brings Kirk Continue reading

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