Note: This is another Old Movie Review, written for a class and posted here so it wouldn’t rot away on my external hard drive. Enjoy! In October of 2008, I attended the Dallas Sci-Fi Expo/Star Wars Fan Day. Bruce Campbell was the special guest, and while walking the convention floor,… Read more »
The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer Buy It Now: on Amazon.com Description: Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, the greeting-card writer Harold Winslow pens his memoirs. His only companions are the disembodied voice of Miranda Taligent, the only woman he has… Read more »
A brief note: I wrote this review as well as one for Army of Darkness for a course on cult films that I took in the spring semester. I thought, why let them go to waste? So it’s time for Old Movie Reviews! In the eighteen years between the release… Read more »
If this book isn’t on your wishlist yet, it needs to be. Go ahead, add it now. I’ll wait. Shadow Bound is Kellison’s debut novel, and it is one hell of a debut. The story is richly imagined, fast-paced, and engrossing, and the characters are well-developed and utterly believable…. Read more »
I am WAY late with this review! I swear, I meant to write it a month ago, but I got so busy with grad school stuff. Ugh. Anyway, here we go! The second book in Leanna Renee Hieber’s Strangely Beautiful series is a lovely and exciting, if somewhat purple,… Read more »
StrangenessAbound’s Rating: — This review is based upon a copy the author bought. Buy It Now: on Amazon.com Amazon.com Product Description: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is an action/adventure game for the Nintendo DS and DSi that sets Link, the iconic hero of the Legend of Zelda series, on a… Read more »
Mouse Guard by David Petersen Buy it now: at your local comic shop or bookstore. Description: Life is hard for mice. Predators lurk outside the safety of town and the war with the weasels is still a recent memory. The Mouse Guard are a group of brave and adventurous mice… Read more »
Staying Dead (Retrievers #1) by Laura Anne Gilman Buy It Now: via Amazon.com Description: It starts as a simple job — but simple jobs, when you’re dealing with the magical world, often end up anything but. As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing — and then… Read more »
Gayle Ann Williams’s debut novel is an entertaining read, but it unfortunately suffers from stilted characterization and a weak ending. I have to confess, I bounced back and forth between liking Blue, the main character, and being completely irritated by her. On one hand, she was raised by her Runner… Read more »
Strangeness Abounds lent me her copies of Sebastian and Belladonna after we had trawled a bookstore looking for good fantasy. I’d tried to read the first book in Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series several years ago and couldn’t get into it, so I was a little wary of the Ephemera… Read more »
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