A little background on this one: back when I was in middle school, my older brother got this book for Christmas (I’m guessing when it was new, and probably on display in the bookstore so it caught someone’s eye). It was still laying out later that day, and I read the first couple of chapters. […]
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Fifteen year old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with her cousins, who she’s never met. She’s just settling into her life there when an Enemy attacks Britain, and the kids are cut off by themselves in their country home. At first, their life is exciting, but then the
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I can knock another one off my I really need to track this down and read it list. I’ve had this on my radar because my friend B loves these books. This omnibus is the story of how Cordelia Naismaith meets Aral Vorkosigan, who starts out as her enemy, and later marries him. I love
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This is the third book of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, and finds Elspeth Gordie journeying to the capital city of Sutrium, to see if the rebels there will ally themselves with the Misfits of Obernewtyn. Unfortunately, this alliance is not as easy as the Misfits had hoped, and leads to a trip to Sador, where they
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This is the final book of the Dying Earth books, and is as beautifully written as the ones before it. Rhialto is a magician, and though he and his fellow magicians are not as great as those that came before them, they still manage some pretty impressive feats. The story is split into three distinct
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The planet Windhaven was colonized long ago by people from Earth. It has low gravity, and near perpetual storms, so some of the colonists used the remains of their ship to build wings, and their descendants became an important link between the islands in this world of vast oceans plagued by storms and deadly monsters.
Windhaven – George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle Read More »
I really enjoyed Uglies – the idea of a future time when people had decided that to end strife, they’d make everyone equally beautiful, and give them all the luxury they could ask for, but in reality were giving everyone brain surgery to take away most of their aggression and curiosity, was really interesting. I
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I’m a big fan of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover books – I managed to track every single one of them down by haunting Ebay, Abebooks and a couple other sites. I’ve kept reading the series even after Bradley’s death, when others have continued the stories. From what I understand, Hastur Lord was something that Bradley
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Broken was once Silverwyng, and Silverwyng could fly. Because of that special ability (and some kickass quick healing skills), she was raised by the Extrahuman Union. But when she lost the ability to fly, she escaped the Union, and has been living on the streets, a drunk shadow of her former self. Michael sees the
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This book in the Dying Earth series follows the adventures of Cugel, who was first introduced to us in The Eyes of the Overworld. Cugel’s a likeable trickster-figure – he’ll do anything to advance his way, make him money, or get him the girl. But the real star of this book (really, the whole series)
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