Tag: book review
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February 27, 2009 01:20 PM EST --
Years in the Making: The Time-Travel Stories of L. Sprague de Camp, L. Sprague de Camp, 2005, The NESFA Press, 377 pp.
A collection of de Camp's tiem-travel science fiction including "Lest . . .
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June 01, 2009 11:27 AM EDT --
The Martian Child, David Gerrold, paperback, TOR, 190 pp, $6.99
David Gerrold retells in fictionalized form the story of his adoption of a troubled 8-year-old boy with a history of abuse . . .
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August 23, 2009 10:29 AM EDT --
CEMETERY DANCE, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, 435 pp, $26.99 new
FBI Special Agent Pendergast returns in Cemetery Dance to solve the murder of a close friend and what was a major continuing . . .
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November 21, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
A welcome repackaging of stories from a premier writer of hard science fiction as he sallies into science fiction humor. Included are two books (he insists on calling them novellas) and a handful of short . . .
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December 13, 2009 08:23 AM EST --
CAHOKIA: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi, Timothy R. Pauketat, Viking, 2009, 170 pp., hardcover
This is the story of the Mississippian civilization centered on the city that existed . . .
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December 13, 2009 09:19 AM EST --
STRANGE FREQUENCIES: A Practical Guide to Paranormal Technology, Craig Telesha, Whitechapel Press, 2008, softcover.
This is an excellent high-tech ghosthunting guide for the non-techie. That was . . .
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January 01, 2009 11:10 AM EST --
IRON EYES: MY LIFE AS A HOLLYWOOD INDIAN, Iron Eyes Cody, 1982, 290 pp hardcover, Random House
One of the more enjoyable Hollywood biographies I've read in many a day as told by Iron Eyes Cody. . . .
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January 12, 2009 10:17 AM EST --
SILVER SCREAM, David J. Schow, ed., 1988, Tor Books, 500 pp.
The common theme in this anthology is the movies. The settings range from Hollywood backlot to broken down movie theaters and drive-ins . . .
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June 30, 2009 12:58 PM EDT --
LONG KNIFE, James Alexander Thom, 1979, Avon, paperback, 592pp, bibliography
One of the great heroic figures of the Revolutionary War and of Illinois history is the underappreciated George Rogers . . .
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December 13, 2009 09:53 AM EST --
THE CALLAHAN TOUCH, Spider Robinson, Ace, 1993, paperback, 226pp
Mary's Place is open and the remarkable group of former patrons of Callahan's Place show up including Pyotr, the vampire who puts . . .
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September 23, 2008 07:52 AM EDT --
Repairman Jack is asked to do a routine job for a lady in this latest series novel. It helps to know that Jack repairs situations, not toasters, and the only people who know about Repairman . . .
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February 11, 2009 03:20 PM EST --
Book Review: The War Magician: David Fisher, 1983, Berkley, 380pp, paperback.
The greatest magic trick in history did not involve Houdini escaping from a water-filled cabinet. Nor did it involve . . .
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March 23, 2008 09:54 AM EDT --
SHOOTER, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE TOP-RANKED MARINE SNIPER. Gunnery Sgt. Jack Couglin, USMC and Capt. Casey Huhlman, USMCR, with Donald A. Davis. This book focuses primarily on Coughlin's . . .
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April 13, 2008 09:56 AM EDT --
I'll make this quick because the movie based on this 509 page paperback book is already in the theaters. I haven't seen it or read any reviews. I don't even know if the movie . . .
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April 19, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
More in the medical vein from the creator of ER than in the science-fiction of his Jurassic Park and Timeline, this is a longish but fast-reading book of short chapters speculating on many of the . . .
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May 16, 2008 11:21 AM EDT --
Graham Masterton again dips into his research library to come up with a new supernatural threat. This one involves an alliance of witches from different black magic traditions when a trio of Los . . .
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June 20, 2008 08:35 AM EDT --
Troy Taylor is author of Into the Shadows: American Unsolved Mysteries and Tales of the Unexplained . So far Troy has written about 40-something books on ghosts and hauntings. This book diverges . . .
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August 03, 2008 08:42 AM EDT --
THE WHEEL OF DARKNESS, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Childs
Monks at a Tibetan monastery so remote it has been overlooked by the Chinese ask visiting students, FBI trouble-shooter Aloysius . . .
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August 12, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
TYRANNOSAUR CANYON, Douglas Preston. 363pp.
This new thriller is from Douglas Preston, half of my favorite writing team of Preston and Childs, authors of Relic, Reliquary, and the Pendergast/Diogenes . . .
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August 17, 2008 10:41 AM EDT --
The Jupiter Myth, Lindsey Davis.
Private informer Marcus Didius Falco and his family wind up in Roman Britain, visiting Falco's in-laws, a high-ranking Roman aristocrat and . . .
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