This second instalment of the franchise has moved even further out of the realm of video games and into the more usual Fantasy realm of magic. As the story progresses it moves more into horror. We are no longer worried about the specific details of the powers of individual players. Now we have a few…
Month: April 2022
REVIEW
“Trappist” by Dave Kijowski
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This is a very difficult book to review, because it contains some good characters, a decent story line, and a lot (perhaps too much) of great hard science, well thought out. However, there are problems. Writers who decide to keep secrets from their readers must tread a very fine line. If they give their readers…
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“Broken World Stories” by Lance Manion
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This is a book of short pieces, mostly humorous. I won’t call them stories, although many of them are. What the others are is more difficult to pin down, so I’ll let you figure them out yourself. The work stands out because of its creativity. Examples: An ethnically sourced method of saying good-bye to the…
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“The Hills Be Shaken” by Michael Stewart
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This book has an interesting slant on the usual detective procedural/action novel. This one is an engineer’s procedural. Trust an engineer to know all sorts of ways for people to get killed. Especially all sorts of dangerous things you really didn’t want to know that happen inside the generating pod of a wind turbine, 100…