Tag: Novel
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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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2025-03-07—Some Really Weird Fiction (Annihilation), AI Again
As a write this, a two-year-old is screaming in my ear because it’s quiet time and she wants to be anything but. Let’s see how this goes. As for my writing updates, I think I’ll bullet-point it this time: Bloggyness Review—Annihilation Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer, is a sci-fi/cosmic horror/”new weird” novel originally published in 2014.…
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