Posts Tagged ‘Books’

The Dark Is Rising

The Dark Is Ris­ing sequence is a set of 5 books1 writ­ten by Susan Cooper between 1965 and 1977. It is with­out ques­tion my favorite series of books from when I was younger and it is also now being made into a movie. More acu­rately, the sec­ond book in the series is being made into […]

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Squeeee!

Tonight, John Scalzi made a stop at the Prairie Lights book­store in Iowa City, IA for his book tour to pro­mote The Last Colony. Michelle & I got there wicked early1 and chat­ted with a cou­ple of store employ­ees briefly. For­tu­nately, they were cool with me bring­ing in my own copy of The Android’s Dream […]

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Review: The Android’s Dream

The Android’s Dream by John Scalzi My Rat­ing: 5 out of 5. This book is a delight­fully wacky tale of one man’s fight to keep a very spe­cial sheep alive. In the process, our hero will have to fight off var­i­ous aliens and a few treach­er­ous vil­lain­ous humans. Scat­tered through­out The Android’s Dream are numer­ous one […]

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50 most significant sci-fi/fantasy novels

This is a list of the 50 most sig­nif­i­cant sci­ence fiction/fantasy nov­els, 1953–2002, accord­ing to the Sci­ence Fic­tion Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, ital­i­cize those you started but never fin­ished and put an aster­isk beside the ones you loved. 1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien* 2. The […]

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Review: Valley of the Soul

Val­ley of the Soul My rat­ing: 5 out of 5. My first intro­duc­tion to the world of Fal­dor­rah came about 2 years ago. AWelkin knew the author and had an early copy of the first book, Ghosts in the Snow. My wife and I were over at AWelkin’s house for a visit, plan­ning to watch some […]

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