S.P.Q.R. IV The Temple of the Muses
I believe the John Maddox Roberts splurge has ended for a while with S.P.Q.R. IV: The Temple of the Muses. This is not because I’ve
October 12, 2025
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The Queens of Land and Sea. Perpetual Cliffhanger.
The Queens of Land and Sea is the fifth — and, unfortunately, final — volume of John Maddox Roberts The Stormlands series. While one of
October 5, 2025
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Yet More JMR
I appear to be in the midst of a John Maddox Roberts phase. This wasn’t intentional. I simply got caught up in the Stormlands series.
September 28, 2025
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The Steel Kings: Stormlands Book Four.
The Steel Kings. Cool title, and, not to bury the lede, a cool story. Book four begins almost as a book end to book three.
September 21, 2025
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Sword-and-Sorcery and Song and Dance: Steven Brust’s “Lyorn.”
Lyorn is the seventeenth installment in Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series. For some reason I’d believed this would the final book, as there are seventeen
September 14, 2025
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L. Sprague de Camp’s “The Glory That Was.”
My edition of The Glory That Was is dedicated to Isaac Asimov and boasts an introduction by Robert A. Heinlein. So right up front you
September 7, 2025
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John Maddox Roberts “S.P.Q.R.” Ave!
I missed a great deal of excellent adventure fiction by failing to stumble across John Maddox Roberts during the last quarter of the twentieth century.
August 31, 2025
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Lud-in-the-Mist
Lin Carter did readers a favor with his Adult Fantasy Series. It is unlikely I would have encountered Hope Mirrlees Lud-in-the-Mist without Ballantine’s unicorn head
August 24, 2025
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Currently Reading
A short post today, I’m afraid. (Hey, stop that cheering.) I’m freshly returned from Urgent Care this morning for “Paronychia of finger of left hand.”
August 10, 2025
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