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DrPat is the blog signature used by an old coot who hoards books, dances Argentine Tango, cooks a mean venison chili, and is happy to be along for the sag while my spouse does a marathon bicycle ride. All that is in my spare time — and my work life is classified...
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Like Nancy Kress' brilliant and challenging Beggars in Spain, Crossfire explores how people relate to the "other" in their midst.
Christopher Moore has tapped into the weird and wonderful in every book, and Fluke is no exception.
The Fairy Godmother not only gives us a fresh view of the obligatory happy ending, but successfully applys it to dozens of older tales.
Three story collections in one book take us spelunking for the hard stuff among some strangely capable hill-folk.
Here is that joyful sense of discovery you remember from your childhood explorations of the world...
Luca Turin follows his nose into how we tell smells apart—and smashes it into a solid paradigmatic wall...
Sheri Tepper's The Singer from the Sea is a strongly-stressed parable about consuming, presented as a Regency romance...
What does lie beyond the bright tunnel seen in near-death-experiences? Willis' Passage is less an answer...
