A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge. This was actually the first book in this series I read. It so absorbed me that I sought out the rest of the series wherever I found it. Once again, a […]
Read More Book Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’EngleOriginally posted on The Toy Soldier Saga:
By Django Wexler I am, I have to admit, a war buff. I read military histories for fun, the kind with fold-out maps covered in little colored arrows and notations like “Kollowrath (40,000)”. As I am also a fantasy novelist, the nature of war in fantasy fiction has…
Song of Susannah by Stephen King My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Reading Challenge, the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the High Fantasy Reading Challenge, and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. This novel was nominated for the Locus Award. I’d almost forgotten all of this one in my re-read. This […]
Read More Book Review: Song of Suzannah by Stephen KingOriginally posted on The Toy Soldier Saga:
I have exciting news! “Mr. Midshipman Sunfall,” which was the first part of “A Few Good Elves,” will be published in the On the Horizon: Simple Worlds of Speculative Adventure Boxed Set on May 1, 2018! From the description: A collection of 22 Fantasy and Science Fiction full…
It’s my pleasure to share with you the complete playlist of the Virtual Fantasy Con’s 2017 panel discussions. I had the honour of hosting three of them: Gender Issues in Fantasy, Realism in Fantasy Warfare, and Fantasy Mashups; you’ll find those ones near the end of the list. I’d like to thank all of the […]
Read More Virtual Fantasy Con 2017: Complete Panel Playlist #VFC17Ubik by Philip K. Dick My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. So far, my acquaintance with PKD has been strictly through this determination of mine to read through the entirety of the SF Masterworks imprint, which has spawned […]
Read More Book Review: Ubik by Philip K. DickThe Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read a combined edition of these two books for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. The Time Machine Read for the Need to Reread Challenge. I have, […]
Read More Book Review: The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsGood fuel for stories, whether there’s any truth to them or not!
Read More 5 Mysterious Time TravelersHere’s a few links to a series of articles about getting horses right in fantasy & historical fiction. But they are somewhat oversimplifications: I also highly recommend the Wikipedia article on coat colour in horses, and following up on the specific articles on coat colours that interest you. Through this, I learned that Lightning, my […]
Read More Writing Horses RightThe Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. I had to struggle to determine what I was going to give this book as a rating. I can’t say it was a bad book, […]
Read More Book Review: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
