The fourth chapter of the Amber Chronicles has now
been reviewed.
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Category Archives: Books
Book Review – “Sign of the Unicorn”
This is the third book in the original five book
Amber series.
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Book Review – “The Guns of Avalon”
The first book in the series has already
been reviewed. Does the second hold up in
comparison?
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Ghosts of SF’s Past
January will see the publication of a long-lost work by Robert Heinlein. Publishers rejected the 1930s effort, For Us the Living, for being too didactic. Hardly suprising for Heinlein, but the novel’s apparent political philosophy differs from the views he would later espouse.
Book Review – “Nine Princes in Amber”
I’m finally getting around to reviewing the first fantasy novel
I ever read. I remember how hard it was to find a book in
this series on the shelves back in junior high. Eight of us
were trying to read them all, so there was always a race to
grab one of the books when it became available.
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Dune: House Corrino
The third and final book in the Dune Houses Trilogy.
Coraline
This year, Neil Gaiman’s Coraline won the Hugo for Best Novella and the Locus for Best Young Adult Novel. Having already written novels, stories, screenplays, poems, and comic books, he decided to tackle a children’s novel. It’s a very creepy children’s novel– and it’s very, very good.
[Book Review] Dune: House Harkonnen
Part two of the Dune Houses trilogy.
Textbook Review – “Movies and Meaning”
Here’s one of our rare textbook reviews. This one, however, isn’t about the hard sciences as most are, although it should still appeal to a fair portion of our readership.
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Walk to the End of the World
In the early 70s, many government secrets became public knowledge. Among the more interesting revelations: the president and his cabinet would not have time to gather their families in the event of nuclear war, but they would be permitted to take their secretaries with them to the bomb shelters. The American way had to survive, you understand.
This inspired Suzy McKee Charnas to write a brutal work of sf satire.