Earth Star (book 2) by Janet Edwards (book review).
Big dangers and problems face any author of a trilogy. Many know exactly where the story began and what will
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Chivalry: A Jake Savage Adventure by Mark Lord (short fiction review).
‘Chivarly: A Jake Savage Adventure’ is a short story that elegantly examines the concept of chivalry. Like so many idealised
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The Fairness Instinct: The Robin Hood Mentality And Our Biological Nature by L. Sun (book review).
It isn’t just Man who is predisposed towards the value of fairness. A lot of animals and especially other primates
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I have been excited about this book since I first stumbled across a stunning digital painting featuring a bloodied, bullet-ridden
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BBC VFX: The Story Of The BBC Visual Effects Department: 1954-2003 by Matt Irvine and Mike Tucker (book review).
The art of special effect is not to be seen as such. It’s part of the story and not supposed
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Unconscious Branding by Douglas Van Praet (book review).
Reading Douglas Van Praet’s book ‘Unconscious Branding’, it didn’t take long to dawn on me that I’m mostly immune to
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Return To Quag Keep by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe (book review).
The 2006 novel ‘Return To Quag Keep’ by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe is a sequel to Andre Norton’s novel,
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Splinters by Tom Sheppard (book review).
Splinters is a world-spanning account of the battle between good and evil. It begins with a bolt of lightning striking
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The Diamond Deep (book two of Ruby’s Song) by Brenda Cooper (book review).
From the start, my feelings from Brenda Cooper’s first book in this series, ‘The Creative Fire’, continue with this one,
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Writers Rehab by D.B. Gilles (book review).
I don’t often come across very tiny paperbacks, but ‘Writers Rehab’ by D.B. Gilles is certainly one of them. The
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