Tag: book-review
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2026-05-26—Red State Mars
Tough-as-nails pioneer families and a great sci-fi war story wrapped up in a huge epic of Mars’s fight for freedom. Loved it. Larry Correia Imagine my surprise when Ark Press sent me over a survey asking if I had any interest in ARC copies of their upcoming novels. Free books, most likely in one of…
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2026-01-12—After Moses: Evensong
And here we are, at the beginning of the year but at the end of the road. It’s been an exhilarating journey. I’m quite grateful it’s one I started. I’ll miss the world of After Moses. I’ll miss Matthew and the others. But (spoiler warning, I guess), with an ending this strong it’s hard to…
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2025-12-15—The 2025 Blog in Review
Ah, the blog—how much has changed in just a year. I started out with inconsistent, relatively disorganized posts that threw a bunch of unrelated topics together, but ended a lot more consistent with my weekly scheduled and a lot more focused in each individual post. While this blog exists to support my writing, I’m still…
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2025-08-25—Travel By Star
Just in case this is a dealbreaker for anyone, I have to state this as plainly as I can: at no point in Travel by Star (by Paul Scott Grill) does a tiny pink blob hop on a five-pointed glowing stellar object and ride it to another location—or, in other words, travel by star. This…
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2025-07-28—Bartimaeus (Amulet of Samarkand, Golem’s Eye)
Let’s throw back to the early 2000s today. Remember Bartimaeus? The Bartimaeus Trilogy is an alternate history, fantasy YA series by Jonathan Stroud. Since it’s an alternate history (and events are often moved around and reinterpreted in that genre), I’m not confident about the exact years the books take place in, but for general context…
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