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    The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett – review

    Publisher’s Description: Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare. Literally. Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in...

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    Imager’s Battalion by L.E. Modesitt Jr. – review

      Publisher’s Description: Quaeryt, now holding the rank of subcommander in the Telaryn army of Lord Bhayar, leads history’s firs imager fighting force into a retaliatory war against the hostile nation of Bovaria, which recently attempted the...

    • Posted 27 days ago
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    Joshua Alan Parry – VIRUS THIRTEEN – Interview

    Now that the book tournament is racing along on its own like a carriage with unreined horses, I can take a step back toward normal operations and talk about the normal sorts of things with a debut...

    • Posted 55 days ago
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    Article 5 by Kristen Simmons – Review

    Dystopian stories have a long tradition in science fiction.  Dystopian stories for younger readers have been around even longer than that.  A younger, more open mind is more willing to consider the ideas that would bring about...

    • Posted 62 days ago
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    Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings sequel will be WORDS OF RADIANCE

    A bit late with this, but worth noting all the same! Brandon Sanderson’s Way of Kings has a sequel coming out this November from Tor, and they just released the title: Words of Radiance. Included with Tor’s...

    • Posted 70 days ago
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    Gillian Philip – FIREBRAND – interview

    Bookspotcentral.com is very pleased to bring in author Gillian Philip for a fireside chat about her newest book, Firebrand, out today in the U.S.  We talk about the inspiration for the book, characters who prefer shouting to...

    • Posted 90 days ago
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    The Literary World of Pulp Adventure (And Dragons) With Marie Brennan – Guest Post

    All Art Courtesy of Todd Lockwood Ahhh, pulp adventure. It’s so fun, and yet such a mess. It was never a respected corner of publishing, even when respectable authors were working in it. The whole idea of pulp...

    • Posted 103 days ago
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  • A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan – review

    Publisher’s Description: You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such study offers rewards beyond compare: to stand in a...

    • Posted 104 days ago
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  • A Natural History of Dragons – Rocking Cover Art

    Behold, one of the most interesting and beautiful covers I’ve seen in a long time: This scientific piece of art is by Todd Lockwood for the cover of Marie Brennan’s A Natural History of Dragons. Lockwood is...

    • Posted 151 days ago
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  • Bard’s Oath by Joanne Bertin – review

    Publisher’s Description: In The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix Joanne Bertin created a world unlike our own, where Dragonlords soar in the skies above the many realms of the land.  The Dragonlords’ magic is unique, giving...

    • Posted 174 days ago
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  • Territory by Emma Bull – review

    It’s no secret that I like mash-ups of genres.  When they’re done really well they become some of the most intriguing and original things that I’ve read.  So, of course, I was excited to get my hands...

    • Posted 175 days ago
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  • The Inexplicables by Cherie Priest – review

    Publisher’s Description: Rector “Wreck ’em” Sherman was orphaned as a toddler in the Blight of 1863, but that was years ago. Wreck has grown up, and on his eighteenth birthday, he’ll be cast out of the orphanage....

    • Posted 189 days ago
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    Strong Vengeance by Jon Land – Review – Douglas R. Cobb

    Fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong is back with a vengeance in thriller/mystery author Jon Land’s edge-of-your-seat novel, Strong Vengeance. As in all of Land’s Caitlin Strong novels (Strong Vengeance is the fourth one, after Strong Justice,...

    • Posted 210 days ago
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  • Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone – review

    Publisher’s Description: A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart.  Her client is...

    • Posted 224 days ago
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