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3d ago
January Stirling is a ballet dancer, one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet living in a future (three hundred years or so) semi-flooded London. Unemployed, he is encouraged to go to Tharsis on Mars for work. Although it is basically grunt-work, January reasons that it is better than no work at all. This ..read more
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1w ago
I’ve been an Epic Fantasy reader for decades, cutting my proverbial teeth on Margaret Weis’s DragonLance series shortly after they were released, then Lord of the Rings, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Wheel of Time, The Farseer and many more. The subgenre has proven durable and popular for many years for myself and many readers. However ..read more
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2w ago
I’m not really sure why, but I do like a circus story. Perhaps it’s that feeling created by reading Ray Bradbury Weird Tales many years ago, or even Charles Finney’s very odd The Circus of Dr. Lao. More recently, I liked the TV series Carnivale, which also seemed to dip into that feeling of surreal ..read more
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3w ago
It’s July 1995. April and Eddie Carter are newly-weds on their way to a stay at the Five Pines Resort, a cheap motel on the edge of Lake Michigan. They’re on a long dark road, late at night, and they see a woman up ahead, clearly in trouble. They stop and pick her up. It’s ..read more
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3w ago
Premee Mohamed’s The Butcher of the Forest is a dark fairy tale that wastes no time in getting the ball rolling. Veris Thorn is a young woman, a citizen of the Tyrant’s empire who is conscripted to retrieve his two children from the dark Elmever forest outside the empire’s borders. As it turns out, Veris ..read more
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1M ago
A doomed ship in the waters around Iceland that has experienced tragedy across several crews is at the center A Haunting in the Arctic by C.J. Cooke. The Ormen is a whaling ship with a dark history, two of its crews have disappeared over the years. Cooke tells a dark, painful, tragic story in two ..read more
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1M ago
At its simplest, Fathomfolk is a fantasy tale of underwater folk. More than that, though, Fathomfolk is a story about differences – differences between land and sea, differences in lifestyles, differences in society – and how land-based humans live alongside human-like sea creatures. Combining elements of East Asian folk-stories and mythology with an otherworldly fantasy ..read more
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2M ago
Imagine that we’re back to 2010. The huge success of the movie Iron Man in 2008, with over $500 million made means that Marvel has decides to think about a sequel. This becomes the logically titled Iron Man 2. Set mainly six months after the first Iron Man movie, it becomes the third film in ..read more
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2M ago
When a novel begins with the death of an entire family at the hands of a god, that sets the tone for a novel. Especially when Kissen, the protagonist who witness the death of her family also loses her leg. From there, Godkiller jumps ahead quite a few years with Kissen trying to put an ..read more
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2M ago
From the publisher: “Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry ..read more