So, I’ve been behind on my reviews of the Peter Grant novels (having only done a review of the first book – released in the US as Midnight Riot and the second novel, Moon Over Soho), so I’m going to do something of a blanket review of the first 7 novels, which effectively make up one massive story arc, which I’m going to call “The Faceless Man Arc”.
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Kevin J. Anderson returns with another novel of the Jedi Academy, picking up after the end of Children of the Jedi.
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This month I’m returning to Star Wars novels with the first appearance of Callista, with the novel “Children of the Jedi” by Barbara Hambly
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There were a couple more Star Wars Novels in 1995, with the first two Callista novels, starting with Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly.
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This week I’ve got a vlog on the 8th book in the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series of novels.
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This week I have a review of an art book covering the history of Dungeons & Dragons from the start of the game to now.
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I’m almost done with the Star Wars novels in 1995 with the first three Young Jedi Knights novels, which were collected together as an omnibus under the title Jedi Shadow.
I’m continuing to make my way through 1995 in Star Wars with the first collection of Star Wars short fiction.
This week I’ve got a review of a trio of mystery novels, from a former Doctor Who writer. Read more
This week we have the latest installment of Legend of the Galactic Heroes, as Yang Wen-Li’s burgeoning rebellion tries to find its footing. Read more
With the past two installments of the Vinyl Detective series, we’ve had an exploration of vinyl collecting along with the Jazz music industry of the 1930s-50s, and a focus on collecting singles combined with an exploration of the psychedelic rock scene of the 1960s-70s in the UK. This basically leaves one last major type of record album to cover – 78 rpm shellac records, and wartime jazz music. Read more
We return to the Star Wars novels with a fairly underrated trilogy. Read more
This month I have another special book review episode, as I give my thoughts on a book from Dark Horse that covers the making of the NES and SNES era Final Fantasy games. Read more
This week I’m reviewing Of Dice and Men, a personal and general overview of the history of role-playing. Read more
I now come to the conclusion of the Corellian Trilogy as we get to the bottom of events in the villain’s plan. Read more
This week I’m taking a look at book 6 of the Legend of the Galactic Heroes series, as the status quo changes once again. Read more
Man, this is the year for really interesting SF murder mysteries getting nominated for the Hugo awards. In The Best Novella category there’s “Then There Was (N-One)” – and in Best Novel, we have Six Wakes from Mur Lafferty. Read more
We continue with the Corellian trilogy as we branch out to a larger exploration of the Corellian system. Read more
Back when I was in Middle School, I discovered the Lovejoy Mysteries, first through the TV series and then through the novels. However, some aspects of the books, such as Lovejoy’s attitude towards women, have aged poorly. So, while I enjoy going back to the books (and I should get around to reading them at some point in the future), they are kind of hard to recommend. Read more
I’m beginning a new trilogy of Star Wars novels here, where we finally go to visit Corellia.
We now com to what is quite possibly the worst Star Wars novel to date.
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This time I’m taking a look at the first published Drizzt Do’Urden novel, and the second Forgotten Realms novel.
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Magic: The Gathering, of all the TCGs that I have played, has held on to me more than any other game – more than WWE Raw Deal, the Star Wars CCG, the Star Trek CCG, and even Weiss Schwarz. The reason for that, more than the raw play of the game and the people I was playing with, was the world of the game, the lore of the game and how it was conveyed. While cards would certainly have a degree of humor to them, the game always took the world somewhat seriously. Read more
Procedural content, permadeath, and extremely punishing difficulty has become more and more of a thing in game design. So, that fact, combined by my affinity for the history of technology from a social, technological, and scientific perspective, lead me to this book about the history of roguelikes. It makes for a good portrait of the development of four games, and getting briefly into some of the ways roguelikes have spread into wider gaming culture, though what could be a good look at the larger gaming picture is sadly limited. Read more