Book Review
Mneme's Place
by Lee Gooden
To call Glenn P. Wolfe’s novel Mneme’s Place “Joycean” is an understatement. There is no doubt the author was inspired by James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan’s Wake. Wolfe employs many...
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Extinction Chronicles
by Lee Gooden
It is always exciting to discover a new voice in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Rare is the writer who can splice the Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos with 1950’s Cold War fear and our twenty-first century worries of terrorism,...
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Dark Knowledge
by Lee Gooden
It is problematic for people living in today’s western society to have ethnocentric biases using their own culture as the set paradigm to judge non-western cultures. The same thing can be said when someone from the twenty-first century...
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Archimedes' Claw
by Lee Gooden
Homa is a physician and a history, science, and science-fiction buff; he is also an intelligent and spiritual writer. In Archimedes’ Claw, Homa marries the sci-fi techno-thriller with philosophy and theology. The narrative is not...
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To Find the Way of Love
by Lee Gooden
Oliver E. Deehan, a meticulous researcher and observer, seeks to to show how love is the answer to human existence in To Find the Way of Love: The Purpose of Our Existence. For twenty years, Deehan has sought to understand humankind’s...
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Collegium Sorcerorum
by Lee Gooden
Louis Sauvain’s grand fantasy novel Thaddeus of Beewicke, the first volume in his Collegium Sorcerorum Trilogy, goes beyond mere imitation of celebrated fantasy series like Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Rowling’s Harry Potter, and...
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Thorgil Bloodaxe
by Lee Gooden
Strongly influenced by Robert E. Howard’s fictional hero Conan the Barbarian, the exploits of red-headed Norse warrior Thorgil Bloodaxe will delight old-school sword-and-sorcery enthusiasts. Ralph E. Laitres’ novel, Thorgil Bloodaxe...
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César
by Lee Gooden
Julian M. Coleman’s "César" is a supernatural tale in the same vein as Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. Both authors make forays into the vampire and witch (voodoo priestess) mythology and...