Down to a Sunless Sea offers a sad, if not cynical, view of humanity.
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Book Review: Valor’s Trial by Tanya Huff
Valor's Trial performs the remarkable feat of lifting the mask we place over the face of soldiers, and letting us see the being beneath it.
Read More »Book Review: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments by Robert Bruce Thompson
Kitchen chemistry for the mad scientist in us all. Thompson's book is a DIY course general chemistry, but not for kids.
Read More »Book Review: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 edited by Laura Furman
In an age where technology allows everyone a chance to be read, it’s easy to forget that not everyone should be.
Read More »Book Review: Midnight on Mourn Street by Christopher Conlon
The story slowly ascends until the terrible, heart-wrenching climax.
Read More »Book Review: A Guide To Folktales In Fragile Dialects by Catherynne M. Valente
A magical journey into the world of folk tales and myth led by a guide with a definite passion for the subject.
Read More »Book Review: Blood on the Wood and Dead Man Riding, Nell Bray Mysteries by Gillian Linscott
I'll be visiting with Nell again, even if I will be frustrated by the social restrictions that also frustrate her.
Read More »Book Review: His Dark Materials: Special Omnibus Edition by Philip Pullman
A wild and woolly trip around an imaginary universe... not an easy read, but the most intelligent books of their kind I've ever read.
Read More »Book Review: Super-Detective Flip Book by Robert Leslie Bellem et al.
A little known pulp hero from the early 1940s gets two adventures reprinted in the old Ace Double format.
Read More »Book Review: A Case Of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
A refreshing antidote to today's omnipresent War On Terror rhetoric.
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