Once again, the self-titled “Young Dragons” of WotC are making their presence felt in the Realms. I’ve also included the debut novel of Marcy Rockwell, a fellow Maiden of Pain contestant and honorary Young Dragon, whose entry into the world of Eberron is a long time coming and well deserved.
Depths of Madness: Book 1 of [...]
Welcome to another edition of the Christian Science Fiction & Fantasy blog tour. This month features The Return of the Guardian-King, the fourth and final book in Karen Hancock’s Legends of the Guardian King series. This was the first “Christian” fantasy (i.e., published by the Christian Booksellers Association) I’ve read.
I’m going to break my review [...]
It’s been a while since I read a 600+ page book that wasn’t written by Mr. Jordan. Ayn Rand’s Objectivism masterpiece Atlas Shrugged weighs in at 1074 pages. It took me over a month to read, and not just because it was long.
I knew from the start that this was a book with a message. [...]
I’ve only been to one author reading. I think I listened to one book on tape/CD. I didn’t do a reading for Maiden. Reactions and opinions seem to be mixed on the benefit of readings. One of the events I did for speech and debate in college was interpretative reading (think acting without using body [...]
I recently checked out a couple classics from the library in my continued quest to become “well-read.” The first one I finished was Aldous Huxley’s futuristic tale of utopia.
The first two chapters of this book were perhaps the most chilling and repulsive visions of genetic culling I’ve ever read (and I’ve read 1984 and A [...]
