Strippable Cover Review: The Sandman Slim Trilogy
Reviewing is said to be an easy job, but there are problems. You might have an issue with story and find it difficult to put into words. Conversely, there might be so much to explain that you can’t really get to the process of actually reviewing without six paragraphs of backstory first. Or in some […]
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Strippable Cover Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One Written by Ernest Cline Published by Crown I was a child of the mid 80s, so I was a bit too young for some of the milestones. Still, I remember seeing the familiar barbarian facing a dragon box art of Dungeons and Dragons on the back of my comics, the ratty covers […]
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Strippable Cover Reviews: Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson The apocalypse has hit in many ways over the years. Zombies. Plague. Creeping Ice-Ages. And of course, there’s always the old stand-by favorite, Robots. We’ve seen them plod slowly through the Terminator films or swiftly dive and tear their way through clunky, barely functional ships in The Matrix. But author […]
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Strippable Cover Reviews: Kraken by China Mieville
Kraken by China Mieville If you’re at all familiar with China Mieville’s work, you may be thrown when you start reading Kraken. Where is New Crobuzon, the iconic city he created and built a mythology for? We’re not in Beszel/Ul Qoma either, the dual metropolis where last year’s Hugo nominated, Arthur C. Clarke Award winning […]
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