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V is for Vengeance. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis. By Orson Scott Card. By Robert J. Sawyer. A Conflict of Interest. By William B. Davis. The Lies of Locke Lamora. Star Trek: The Rings of Time. Tom Clancy’s Act of Valor. The Man From Primrose Lane. Life Among the Lutherans. The Catcher in the Rye. Red Seas Under Red Skies. I Suck At Girls. Where Are You Now. By Mary Higgins Clark. By Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter. By Robert J. Sawyer. Star Trek Titan: Synthesis.
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Jim's Bookshelves: October 2014
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My thoughts on everything I read. Sunday, October 12, 2014. The Death and Life of Nicholas Linnear. Author: Eric Van Lustbader. First Publication: November, 2014. I read this as part of the R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril IX Challenge. Summary: The deadly ninja Nicholas Linnear returns in his first all-new adventure in more than twenty years. When a story starts with someone waking up in a coffin and having to dig himself out of a grave, it captures my attention. The author keeps the story moving at a high...
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Visions of Paradise: January 2005
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Saturday, January 29, 2005. Three novels whose plots were almost incidental compared to the explosion of ideas which issued forth page after page. After a decade spent playing around in Hollywood, Varley returned to science fiction with decidedly positive results. First came Steel Beach. Which I thought showed signs of Varley shaking off the creative rust. Its successor The Golden Globe. There are a few weaknesses in the novel. The extended backstory. The various confrontations with the Charonese...I’ve ...
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Visions of Paradise: July 2004
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Thursday, July 29, 2004. The Fall of Hyperion. I’m not going to beat around the bush here: Dan Simmons’ The Fall of Hyperion. Is one of the very finest perhaps the finest science fiction novels every written! It takes the foundation laid in Hyperion. And weaves into an even more wondrous tale. Let me explain some of the reasons I consider it such a rousing success:. The background universe which Simmons created in Hyperion. In many ways, The Fall of Hyperion. In addition to the novel’s intricate plotting...
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Visions of Paradise: November 2004
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Saturday, November 27, 2004. Bravo television network has spent much of this week announcing their choices for TV’s 100 Greatest Characters. While the list has been interesting, I am not a big television watcher, so I have never seen the majority of their characters, nor even heard of some of them. Article. Some characters who come to mind immediately include:. Danny Boles, from Michael Bishop’s Brittle Innings. Robinette Broadhead, from Frederik Pohl’s Gateway. Sam, from Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light.
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Visions of Paradise: February 2005
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Sunday, February 27, 2005. K J Bishop’s The Etched City. Received amazing reviews for a debut novel, and I started reading it with two frames of mind: How could it possibly be as good as every reviewer claimed, but what if it actually was? It did not take me long to realize what the reviewers saw in the novel. The Etched City. Is an absolutely wonderful novel, the best I have read since Perdito Street Station. They manage to escape their pursuers, and find their way to Ashamoil where Raule became a mostl...
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Visions of Paradise: August 2004
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Sunday, August 29, 2004. Recently I purchased the NESFA edition of Dimensions of Sheckley. Which contains 4 of his best novels and a novella. Rather than read them in order, I took the advice of Mike Resnick who, in his Introduction, called Dimensions of Miracles. One of the finest science fiction novels ever. Then you are the dominant species? Wellone of the dominant species. But what about the reptiles? Carmody had neither the heart nor the nerve to tell him that dinosaurs were extinct in his day, and ...
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Visions of Paradise: March 2005
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005. Servants of the Map. I started reading seriously about forty years ago, staring with Tom Swift, Jr. books and progressing from there. After four decades of reading, I am pleased that at times I can still get very excited about new discoveries. Sometimes it’s new authors, other times specific books. A half-dozen years ago I was very excited at reading Andrea Barrett’s first collection Ship Fever. Followed by her novel Voyage of the Narwhal. The Forest is much stronger. A long ...
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It Started With The Hugos...: 2014 RYO Lists
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It Started With The Hugos. There’s a new challenge for 2014 on the World Without Ends site. It’s the “ Roll Your Own Challenge. 8221; It lets you create a challenge of your own and/or join a challenge created by another member. I’ve created my own. It’s called the. 2014 I Just HAVE To Read More Of That Author Challenge. This is how I came up with it:. A sequel, and the Willis and Cherryh books are in universes. Wow, that’s confusing. And signup for my challenge. On WWEnd. Let me know what authors you...
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It Started With The Hugos...: April 2015
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It Started With The Hugos. Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Completed 4/18/2015, Reviewed 4/23/2015. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Completed 4/15/2015, Reviewed 4/21/2015. Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth. Completed 4/12/2015, Reviewed 4/15/2015. Friday, April 10, 2015. Tales From the Perilous Realm. Completed 3/30/2015, Reviewed 3/31/2015. So which book do you read, this or “Tolkien Reader”? Monday, April 6, 2015. Completed 3/3/28/2015, Reviewed 3/30/2015. 8220;Farmer Giles o...
