The Queens of Land and Sea is the fifth — and, unfortunately, final — volume of John Maddox Roberts The Stormlands series. While one of the early chapters adds a trifle to the travelogue of Roberts’ distant future Earth, this book offers a great deal less world building than the previous four. It does open… Continue reading The Queens of Land and Sea. Perpetual Cliffhanger.
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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. Then, during a trip back to Portland and the obligatory visit to Powell’s Books, I picked up the second of his S.P.Q.R. novels. Not wanting to start with book two,… Continue reading Yet More JMR
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. This time Kairn, Hael’s second son is the protagonist, going on an adventure, meeting a woman. The travelogue continues, the exploration of John Maddox Robert’s post-apocalyptic North America, this time… Continue reading The Steel Kings: Stormlands Book Four.
Poisoned Lands: Stormlands Book Three.
Several years pass between the end of the second book of John Maddox Roberts’ Stormlands, The Black Shields, and the third book, The Poisoned Lands. Enough years for the sons of the series’ hero, Hael, to have reached a warrior’s age. Hael, in fact, makes no appearance in this volume, apparently busy in the East… Continue reading Poisoned Lands: Stormlands Book Three.
John Maddox Roberts’ “The Islander.”
The first volume of John Maddox Roberts’ Stormlands series, The Islander, doesn’t read like a 380 page book. I had to slow down, pace myself, so as not to fly through the pages. This is heroic fiction done right. The setting is post apocalyptic. I don’t know how far in the future the story is… Continue reading John Maddox Roberts’ “The Islander.”