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Tag: book
Book – ***** The Green Mile (1996)
Stephen King masterpiece centered on all those servicing and sitting in the electric chair with fantasy and supernatural elements sprinkled on top to make the terrifying dish palatable.
Book – ***+ Singularity Sky (2013)
Charles Stross’s sci.fi. that skips to the far future after the singularity. Not about the singularity at all, but about technological shock waves and people’s inability to imagine consequences they’re unfamiliar with.
Book – **** Daemon (2013)
Interesting take on the transformation of society based on a successful daemon, not even the true singularity.
Book – ****+ Dragon Speaker (2018)
Elana A. Mugdan’s engaging fantasy of Keriya Nameless as a pawn in a power struggle between dragons and opposing magic wielders who want to dominate them.
Book – ***** Dracul (2016)
J.D. Baker’s masterful retelling of the vampire legend with the great grandson of Bram Stoker, Dacre Stoker, and access to unpublished notes. Baker capture’s the same mood and plays to our immortal interest in death and the possibility of cheating it.
Chanticleer Conference – steak and sushi dinner
Book – ****+ The 5th Wave (2013)
Very good sci.fi. novel of earth’s invasion where the aliens attempt to conquer us from the inside out.
Book – ****+ Bruiser (2013)
A Neal Schusterman treatise on empathy. Fantasy that plays with our real-world emotional responsibilities by the author of Scythe.
Book – ***+ Red Queen (2015)
Victoria Aveyard fantasy of a future world of red and silver blooded humans with supernatural power over both physics and the brains of each other. The main character. Mare, though a lowly Red, can control electricity. The princes of the Silver Realm control heat, but others can cancel their powers…
Book – ***** The Green Mile (1996)
Stephen King masterpiece centered on all those servicing and sitting in the electric chair with fantasy and supernatural elements sprinkled on top to make the terrifying dish palatable.
Book – ***+ Singularity Sky (2013)
Charles Stross’s sci.fi. that skips to the far future after the singularity. Not about the singularity at all, but about technological shock waves and people’s inability to imagine consequences they’re unfamiliar with.
Book – **** Daemon (2013)
Interesting take on the transformation of society based on a successful daemon, not even the true singularity.
Book – ****+ Dragon Speaker (2018)
Elana A. Mugdan’s engaging fantasy of Keriya Nameless as a pawn in a power struggle between dragons and opposing magic wielders who want to dominate them.
Book – ***** Dracul (2016)
J.D. Baker’s masterful retelling of the vampire legend with the great grandson of Bram Stoker, Dacre Stoker, and access to unpublished notes. Baker capture’s the same mood and plays to our immortal interest in death and the possibility of cheating it.
Chanticleer Conference – steak and sushi dinner
Book – ****+ The 5th Wave (2013)
Very good sci.fi. novel of earth’s invasion where the aliens attempt to conquer us from the inside out.
Book – ****+ Bruiser (2013)
A Neal Schusterman treatise on empathy. Fantasy that plays with our real-world emotional responsibilities by the author of Scythe.
Book – ***+ Red Queen (2015)
Victoria Aveyard fantasy of a future world of red and silver blooded humans with supernatural power over both physics and the brains of each other. The main character. Mare, though a lowly Red, can control electricity. The princes of the Silver Realm control heat, but others can cancel their powers…