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Fangs – Book Club

Fangs – Book Club

August 12, 2023

Fangs (by Sarah Andersen) I think this maybe the first “comic” book that I have written about in the book-club section of the website. Fangs started life as a web-comic…

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Pattern Recognition (by William Gibson)

Pattern Recognition (by William Gibson)

July 31, 2023

Yes, I am aware of Mr Gibson’s opus. This book was published in 2003. William Gibson wrote it (I know, Blowing your mind with FACTS!) The last time I read…

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Timebound (by Rysa Walker)

Timebound (by Rysa Walker)

July 13, 2023

As spoiler free as I am able to be. I have not before ready any Rysa Walker. I didn’t even know who she was until I stumbled over this book…

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The opening line – Stranger in a Strange Land

The opening line – Stranger in a Strange Land

October 18, 2022

  I love this novel, I think its one of Robert A Heinlein’s finest offerings. I have wrote about it in great depth in the past, but were only here…

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Storm Front (By Jim Butcher)

Storm Front (By Jim Butcher)

July 31, 2022

Storm Front (Dresden Files 1) by Jim Butcher. In my discord group there is a room (are they called rooms?) called #book_club where us bookish folks exchange recommendations and thoughts…

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The Kaiju Preservation Society – Book club

The Kaiju Preservation Society – Book club

March 25, 2022

  The Kaiju Preservation Society (by John Scalzi) The Kaiju Preservation Society is the most fun thing I have read in a long time. It is literally joy, in the…

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Dune – Book club

Dune – Book club

November 4, 2021

  Book: Dune Series: Dune (Series 1) Written by: Frank Herbert As much as this is out of character for me I am going to try and keep this brief….

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The opening line – Foundation

The opening line – Foundation

October 15, 2021

  There are two opening lines in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The first is the extract from the encyclopedia Galactica (the fictional book that chronicles the universe. Asimov uses it to…

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The Opening line – Neuromancer

The Opening line – Neuromancer

October 13, 2021

I had a conversation with a friend today. He was talking about writing and how its done, I went off on my usual rant about how I think the opening…

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Iliad – Book club

Iliad – Book club

July 16, 2021

Iliad (By Homer) I don’t have the classical education required to actually write a review of the Iliad. I’ll be honest, while I enjoyed it a great deal I’m pretty…

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