Can Vigil up the ante?
VIGIL by Robert Masello In spite of the clever title for this review, Masello's Vigil is not about anything vigilante-related. With that...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Nov 6, 20234 min read
Time and distance make a seminal sci-fi novel hokey.
THE CORNELIUS CHRONICLES by Michael Moorcock Four complete novels in one volume: The Final Programme, A Cure for Cancer, The English...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Sep 4, 20231 min read
The Barbarian of Oz
BARBARIAN OF WORLD'S END by Lin Carter Yet another adventure novel by science-fantasy's most (or least, depending on how you look at it)...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 25, 20231 min read
Bentley Little's Last Resort
THE RESORT by Bentley Little This was the fourth or fifth book I read by Bentley Little, a man once hailed as the new master of horror...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Aug 7, 20232 min read
What if Tarzan was born in Alaska?
ONE AGAINST A WILDERNESS by William L. Chester What a great little book! One of several DAW paperbacks I found at a used book store in...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 31, 20234 min read
"They call me Blade-- Dick Blade."
THE MOUNTAINS OF BREGA WIZARD OF RENTORO WARRIORS OF LATAN by Jeffrey Lord At first glance, these titles scream fantasy series....
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 26, 20232 min read
The Dawning put me to sleep.
THE DAWNING by Hugh B. Cave To judge by the author's bio in the back of the book, Mr. Cave is a man of impressive accomplishments (over...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 17, 20232 min read
Savage is more marketable than Lover
THE ETERNAL SAVAGE by Edgar Rice Burroughs An interesting, but short novel even by Burroughs' standards. The Eternal Lover chronicles the...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 10, 20231 min read
Lions and Tigers and Bears (Kalidahs combine two of the three)! Oh my!
THE WIZARD OF OZ by L. Frank Baum I haven't read this one since I was a kid. Happily, years later, I still find it very enjoyable. All...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Jul 3, 20233 min read
Gimme five! Death Draws Five!
Death Draws Five (aka Wild Cards XVII) by John J. Miller I remember that when I had finished reading this book, which was the then-latest...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 26, 20237 min read
Struck by Stinger
Stinger by Robert R. McCammon Recently I was on a stakeout that went wrong in a bad way. Not the kind conducted by police officers or...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 17, 20233 min read
Get Brak! Get Brak to where you once belong!
The Mark of the Demons by John Jakes In honor of the recent passing of John Jakes, I offer this review of a less well-known work. Well,...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 15, 20234 min read
All in on Knaves Over Queens
Knaves Over Queens by the Wild Card Collective edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass Thank God for this book. After the...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Apr 12, 20234 min read
Forecast calls for Storm Front with possible zany antics.
Storm Front by Jim Butcher For years, I passed on the Dresden Files. I never precisely turned my nose up at the popular and long-running...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Mar 26, 20235 min read
Hold the Texas Hold 'Em, please!
TL:DR I promised myself I would keep this one mercifully short. Here it is, as short as I can make it: If you like George R.R. Martin’s...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Mar 11, 20234 min read
From Thongor to Jongor
Thongor is Missing! It’s cookie season for Girl Scouts and, seeing as two of those scouts are my daughters, that means I have spent a lot...
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cyborgcaveman
Feb 22, 20233 min read
Conans are from Earth, Thongors are from Mars
Thongor and the Dragon City by Lin Carter "The adventures of the mightiest sword and sorcery hero of them all!" So sayeth the cover copy,...
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cyborgcaveman
Feb 21, 20233 min read
Book Llarn-ing
WARRIOR OF LLARN by Gardner F. Fox A gift from my good friend and very talented artist James Hanson, Fox's sword and planet story stands...
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Greg O'Driscoll
Feb 18, 20235 min read
Conan and the Bridge Too Far
CONAN - THE SWORD OF SKELOS by Andrew Offutt The next entry in our review of the non-Howard Conans is Andrew Offutt's Sword of Skelos. A...
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cyborgcaveman
Feb 17, 20233 min read
The Adventure That Almost Was
Thongor Against the Gods by Lin Carter Sequel to Thongor and the Dragon City, the barbarian hero's next adventure has all the right...
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