Hand of Fire – The Comics Art Of Jack Kirby by Charles Hatfield (book review).
One is always wary when the academics get their hands on popular culture. I was recently re-reading Kingsley Amis on
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A Forthcoming Wizard by Jody Lynn Nye (book review).
Chapter One contains a recap of events from book one, ‘An Unexpected Apprentice’, so you don’t need to have read
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Scholar (The Imager Portfolio book 4) by L.E. Modesitt Jr. (book review).
‘Scholar’, the fourth book in ‘The Imager Portfolio’, opens with the furniture of fantasy: a cast list and a map.
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Enterprise Games: Using Games Mechanics To Build A Better Business by Michael Hugos (book review).
I had to put the full title, ‘Enterprise Games’, in or you would think there was a ‘Star Trek’ connection,
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The Creative Fire (book one of Ruby’s Song) by Brenda Cooper (book review).
From the start, author Brenda Cooper points out her lead character, Ruby Martin, has been influenced by the life of
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Kingdom Of The Wicked (Skulduggery Pleasant book 7) by Derek Landy (book review)
If magic’s a disease, the seventh book in the ‘Skulduggery Pleasant series has had an epidemic outbreak on the level
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The Last Myth by Mathew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles (book review).
As usual with many of Prometheus Book titles, ‘The Last Myth’s sub-title gives more about the product than the main
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Crucible Of Gold (a novel of Temeraire book 7) by Naomi Novik (book review).
It is rare for all books in a series to be equally good. Readers will have their favourites and this
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Darkship Renegades by Sarah. A. Hoyt (book review)
In ‘Darkship Thieves’, space opera debut by Sarah A. Hoyt, Kit and Thena barely escape Earth. In the long awaited
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Klingon Bird-Of-Prey: Owners’ Workshop Manual by Rick Sternbach and Ben Robinson (book review).
Whether it’s a lack of imagination or merely a need to keep to a combat space vessel that works, the
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