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TICKER – Lisa Mantchen
Penny Farthing was nearly dead when surgeon Calvin Warwick replaced her heart with a mechanical ‘Ticker’. With the brass heart, Penny became the first of the Augmented. But Calvin is arrested and put on trial for mass murder when it is learned that many people died as he’s worked on them, trying to build an… Continue reading
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MIRACALES AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE – Joe R. Lansdale
One more entry for the PM Outspoken Authors series for my review blog, this time featuring Joe R. Lansdale. While the other books in this series that I read and reviewed had a very similar feel, Lansdale bucks the trend and makes this short collection much more personal and therefore, in many ways, much more… Continue reading
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RALPH COMPTON FLAMES OF SILVER – Ralph Compton & Jackson Lowry
Morgan Mason has just arrived in Virginia City, Nevada (from San Francisco) to hopefully put his skills to use and find a job. Morgan is an assessor with a geology background and Virginia City has large cadre of millionaires thanks to some silver-rich mines in the area. But the one local assay office doesn’t want… Continue reading
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THE WISDOM OF DEAD MEN – Oisin McGann
Once again I managed to select a book that is the middle of a series without realizing it. That’s a problem with ARC’s sometimes – you don’t see a cover boasting “Book Two” or “”Continuing the Saga.” We are in Victorian era Ireland following the Wildenstern family. Brothers Nate (who has been traveling), and Berto… Continue reading
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SWASHBUCKLERS – Dan Hanks
The literary equivalent to the Hollywood ‘B’ movie would probably be the pulps, or ‘pulp fiction.’ We don’t see a lot of pulp fiction today, but I’d say that author Dan Hanks is still writing in the pulp fiction style. In Swashbucklers, our hero is Cisco Collins. And ‘hero’ is the correct term. As a child,… Continue reading
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THE VIKING HEART – Arthur Herman
Arthur Herman’s The Viking Heart is a history book … well, no, it’s a sociology study … er, it’s a personal memoir … or, rather, it’s … it’s a little bit of everything. Including flawed. The subtitle, How Scandinavians Conquered the World, is meant to be quite broad. We don’t realize this at first, reading through the early… Continue reading
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SOUND MAN – Glyn Johns
When you are one of the most influential sound engineers/music producers ever, it would be difficult to write a biography or memoir without a whole heck of a lot of name-dropping … as evidenced by Glyn Johns’ memoir, Sound Man. Seriously … Johns worked with groups like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Steve Miller… Continue reading
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ALL THE HORSES IN ICELAND – Sarah Tolmie
Sarah Tolmie’s All the Horses of Iceland is beautifully poetic novella which, like the Edda‘s and the Heimskringla by Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson, lays forth the story behind a national legend. For Tolmie, that’s the story of all the horses of Iceland. And like all good legends, there’s magic and the supernatural, there’s good and evil, and there’s a wanderer… Continue reading
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FUGITIVE TELEMETRY – Martha Wells
This is not my first Martha Wells book, but it is my first foray into The Murderbot Diaries, despite this being book number six. A quick background … “Murderbot” is the name a self-aware robot has given itself, though it doesn’t refer to itself that way out loud for fear of scaring off the humans… Continue reading
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THE UNWINDING AND OTHER DREAMINGS – Jackie Morris
What kind of book is this? The drawings and narrative feel like a poetic children’s book. But the creator suggests it’s more of a meditative book … something to put on the night stand and read a couple of pages before bed after a long day? Whatever it is, it’s pretty to look at. These… Continue reading
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NOCTERRA, VOL. 1 – graphic novel
This is a post-apocalyptic story. Darkness is everywhere and has been that way for ten years. In that ten years, Val Riggs has seen nearly everyone she knows become ‘infected’ and changed shapes into hideous, grotesque creatures. Val now works as a ‘ferryman’ – driving an eighteen-wheeler big rig, transporting people and goods through the… Continue reading
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DOWN COMES THE NIGHT – Allison Saft
Wren Southerland is probably the best healer in the Queen’s Guard but she’s been a bit reckless with her magic so she’s constantly in trouble with her superiors. When she receives a letter from a lord asking for her help to cure a servant, she only sees the opportunity to redeem herself and improve her… Continue reading
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