Book Review
Withur We
by Lee Gooden
Withur We is a magnificent epic in the grand tradition of such works as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series and Frank Herbert’s Dune. Matthew Bruce Alexander, a first-time author, combines the warfare orientation of John Ringo and the...
Book Review
Three Fugitives
by Lee Gooden
A crop of fantasy writers, apparently inspired by their youthful exposure to Mary Stewart, C.S. Lewis, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula K. Le Guin, and J.R.R. Tolkien, have turned to self-publishing and small presses as an alternative to...
Book Review
Morphed Nightmare
by Lee Gooden
Imagine an eighteen-year-old honor student from an upper-class family who lives a life of privilege and opportunity. Now imagine that this same young man breaks the law and is suddenly transplanted into the hard and unforgiving world of...
Book Review
Etching in Sand
by Lee Gooden
Good poetry makes readers think beyond the obvious. Each word within a line is a building block in the foundation of one stanza and then another. Like the shaping of a Bonsai tree, poets trim extraneous words and syllables until...
Book Review
Leave No Evidence
by Lee Gooden
In her debut novel, Marilyn Harley Irick tells an absorbing story that has the potential to become a sought-after summer page-turner. When mysterious, chalky red lines appear at his workplace, architect Doug Donovan takes it upon himself...
Book Review
19,000 Years of World History
by Lee Gooden
“Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.” —Joseph Campbell In this encyclopedic volume,...
Book Review
Trinanoch
by Lee Gooden
Alan Wagstaff’s petite but powerful novel is the first book in a new fantasy series that contains traces of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. English twins, Thomas and Katherine Rayner,...
Book Review
Understanding Enlightened Conservatism
by Lee Gooden
The cause of America is in a great measure of all mankind. Many circumstances have and will arise which are not local but universal and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected and are interested…Society in...