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SGT. Thor the Damned Review

SGT. Thor the Damned Review

Why is this so good? I finished reading this on a plane and I immediately wanted to go back and buy the two earlier volumes, but I couldn't without ponying up for airline internet access. But it was so much fun to read this that I seriously considered

My Brother's Keeper by Tim Powers

My Brother's Keeper by Tim Powers

Tim Powers latest, My Brother's Keeper, is a tale of misplaced charity causing a multigenerational curse. It is also a secret history of the Brontë family, and as usual, Powers' explanation for their troubles is such a good story that it threatens to replace whatever else you

Gemini Drifter Book Review

Gemini Drifter Book Review

Matthew and Jason have returned to Earth, escaped the Great Sorcerer King, killed the woman who tricked them and destroyed a building in the process. Now what? Gemini Drifter, the second book in JD Cowan's Gemini Man series, presents our protagonists with more freedom than the last. In

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-07-07: Entrepreneurial Success

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-07-07: Entrepreneurial Success

On Entrepreneurial Success • The Worthy HouseI am often asked how I achieved entrepreneurial success. That is, how I became, in the words of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory,” “rich—yes, richer than a king.” (We can gloss over the ultimate fate of Cory in that poem, which will not

Gemini Warrior Re-released

Gemini Warrior Re-released

JD Cowan's Gemini Warrior went out of print when Silver Empire went out of business, but thanks to JD's recent Kickstarter, Book 1 is back up on Amazon, and Books 2 and 3 will be out soon. I'll copy my original review as an

Mythago Wood

Mythago Wood

It is a place where myths become true. No. It is a place where myths are more than true; a place where the myths have power and you have none. The effect is a diminution of the self in the face of something older, vaster, and stranger.

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology. This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built