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  • Review: Space Doctor

    Review: Space Doctor

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    Awhile back I had discovered James White’s Sector General books and reviewed them on the blog. In comments afterward, Lee Correy’s Space Doctor was recommended. I should fill in some background. My dad was in emergency medicine all my life that I can remember. As a paramedic, EMT, and sometimes fireman, he was usually on…

  • Review: Hand of God

    Review: Hand of God

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    I review a space opera over at Otherwhere Gazette, with a little more humor than usually slips into my reviews. I will also have a Friday review, as the long plane trip was good for my reading.

  • Curmudgeon Review: Skin Game

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    The First Reader and resident curmudgeon offered to do a review since I am at Life, the Universe, and Everything! this weekend and having a blast. He wrote it up, sent it to me, and I read it in a state of shock. I think this is unprecedented. He’s such a stickler, and that he’d…

  • Curmudgeon Review: Into the Hinterlands

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    Into the Hinterlands by David Drake and John Lambshead Fair warning, I think David Drake is the best author working today. That being said he is human, some of his work is better than others.  John Lambshead is a British author that has done work for Baen. I have had some slight on line encounters with…

  • Review: Joy

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    So my review is a day early, but it gives me an opportunity to say I’m thankful for someone. *Redacted* years ago, I fell into good company. A small writing support group, they helped me regain confidence after an earlier bad writing group experience where in time I had learned to just shut up, or…

  • Review: The Corpse Reader

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    I was sick enough the other day to read. As odd as that sounds, when I’m at the point where I’m too uncomfortable to sleep, and too miserable to do my usual daily work, I immerse myself in reading. By opening a book, and stepping through it into another world, I escape (to some extent)…

  • Review: Nocturnal Origins

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    I read Amanda S. Green’s Nocturnal Origins quite a while ago. And then Nocturnal Haunts, the novella bridge, and Nocturnal Serenade, the sequel novel. Why am I doing a long form review now? Well, because after much impatient waiting, Nocturnal Interlude is coming out! The third book in the series will be available for purchase…

  • Review: Last Flight From Queensland

    Review: Last Flight From Queensland

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    I wanted to talk to you all, those of you who care to reply, anyway, about what you’d like to see here for reviews? Do you want me to find good stuff, and post happy reviews of things you might enjoy reading: in other words, only the good? Or do you want the randomness that…

  • Review: The Black Goats

    Review: The Black Goats

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    Last week I reviewed a fantasy full of sex that was, to say the least, less than a success. This week I will make up for it with a whole-hearted recommendation of Pam Uphoff’s Black Goats. Really, this whole series is excellent. Oh, and in keeping with the theme of the week, here are the…

  • I owe, I owe…

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    Not money, per se, but time, and attention, and…  I’d promised at least three updates a week on the blog, and a review on Fridays. I don’t know if I’m going to manage a review for tomorrow. I have homework, and I plan a field trip that will take a large part of the day,…

  • Redneck Manifesto Review

    Redneck Manifesto Review

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    I had to review a book for my Cultural Anthropology class. I thought I would share the review here, along with a link to the book so you can explore it yourself. It’s a fascinating diatribe, and one that is tartly, refreshingly, honest. I self-identify as belonging to that unique tribe, the Alaskan redneck, so…