This novel is an example of a modern sub-genre blending hi-tech Science Fiction with gladiatorial combat digital games. The creative advantage which this author uses to great effect is the imaginative choreography available to fighters with a creative variety of skills and powers. The technique, as the scenes in this book show, is not to…
Month: November 2024
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The Drunken Dragon, by George Morrison
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This is a fascinating novel. Billed as humour, with all the trappings of an Action Fantasy, it also manages to draw us in emotionally on a deeper level. Let’s put this story into perspective. It has towns called Spittlesburg, Whatadump, and Bristol. (What does the author have against Bristol?) It has a Province of Malevolentia,…
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“Red Camaro” by Dwaine Rieves
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On Titles, Forewords, and Introductions: I believe that the largest source of bad reviews is not poor quality work, but misunderstanding on the part of readers of what they are purchasing. I try not to fall prey to this, which is fortunate for this poet, because, despite the title and the focus of the front…
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“Miss Universe” by David M. Jones
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Okay, don’t be fooled by the title; this is true Science Fiction. Don’t think, “Miss Congeniality.” Think “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,” filled with thousands of alien races and myriads of inconceivable scientific and technical wonders. But, rich in technological and social setting though the story may be, it is the characters that drive the…