Month: July 2016

Don’t expect this to be your normal, everyday action story. The main character, Thomas Moore, is a vigilante who experiences eels swimming up to his brain on the first page of the book. His unseen mentor is merely “Partner,” a Luddite and a career second-story man who took Moore in when no one else would…

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This international thriller/conspiracy theory/novel starts with a great action sequence, full of assailants in ski masks, early-hours careening through the streets of Beijing in an enclosed van, and a great deal of disorientation, pain, and unpleasant surprise. However, we then drop back to the real beginning, which contains a great deal of backstory and information…

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Despite its dark title and even darker cover, I must recommend this book. It’s actually one of the lighter takes on the venerable “What Hell is Like” genre, started by Dante Alighieri with his “Inferno” in the 14th century, and picked up by a myriad of rock ‘n’ rollers and fantasy writers in the past few…

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Here we go again. Another novel in the new genre, “Video Game Plot.” This one in spades. This story is set in a dystopian steam-punk world where all the rules are broken, including most of the rules of novel writing. Violina and her sidekick, Lux, roar through the ruins of a destroyed planet, finding, using,…

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This is a compilation of short stories celebrating Mr. Spencer’s intelligent and quirky sense of the ridiculous. Each story contains an original and witty take on some normal Science Fiction topic. The concepts are creative, the humour is sharp but the presentation is academic. Spencer doesn’t write stories; he writes about stories. Then he analyzes…

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