Two-Fer Sci-Fi Retro-Reviews
It can be hard to sense the zeitgeist of an era while you are experiencing it, the spirit of decade you are living through, for
April 6, 2025
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Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave Re-Read Part III: The Last Enchantment
The third book of the Crystal Cave trilogy, The Last Enchantment, swings along pretty fast. I believe it is the shortest of the trilogy. The
March 30, 2025
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Mary Stewart’s The Merlin Trilogy Re-Read Part II: The Hollow Hills
Given the nature of telling a well-known story through the eyes of a character with foreknowledge, it is unsurprising that The Hollow Hills is generally
March 16, 2025
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The Merlin Trilogy Reread Part I: The Crystal Cave
I picked up this collected edition of Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy only in part because of the oddly endearing, but perhaps misleading Hildebrandt Bros. cover.
February 23, 2025
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Styrbiorn the Strong. Eddison Breathes the Northern Thing.
E.R. Eddison is known primarily for The Worm Ouroboros, and to a lesser extent the Zimiamvia Trilogy. But he also wrote a historical novel. As
February 16, 2025
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The Last of the Mohicans: Part of the DNA of American Fiction
While reading my copy of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans I found between the pages a bank deposit slip of mine from
February 9, 2025
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January Update
To anyone looking it might not appear that I’m doing any writing. But I am. The staring at the walls or spending entirely too long
January 19, 2025
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Fifty Years Later: “Boneland.”
A few months back I read Alan Garner’s The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath, both of which I considered here. In 2012,
January 12, 2025
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Red Moon and Black Mountain
Joy Chant’s Red Moon and Black Mountain is a book I wanted to like more than I actually did. I’ve a notion that timing is
January 5, 2025
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