Inside GMT Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThe second Avatar trilogy module came out about a month after FRE1 Shadowdale, and naturally picks up right from the end of that. The party is imprisoned in Shadowdale and accused of murdering Elminster (don’t worry, he’s back as an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a bit complicated. First, at a hundred pages (plus an appendix that really is part of the novel) this is pretty much in novella territory. Really though, it’s a jumble of short stories with the same inciting event.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a few things Miller’s book is about. Most centrally, it is about the Gag Rule, or really, the series of Gag Rules about slavery in the US House of Representatives in the 1830s. It is also about the birth[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ninth FR-series supplement returned to the geographic format of the bulk of the series, this time heading northeast and covering the two countries that had been introduced through the four H-series adventures. The usual major editing goof this time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Doing a story that hops back and forth between two distinct storylines is difficult. It’s done quite well here. There’s a lot of very deliberate parallels (in fact, this is brought up inside the novel), which help strengthen the structure.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had thought Zamoyski’s book was just on the Congress of Vienna, but I should have taken a better look at the subtitle, which is accurate. Zamoyski starts the action in December 1812, with Napoleon racing into the Tuileries just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This TNG novel is set in early fourth season (an actual stardate is given at the end), and was written in that period. The series had settled down into a long haul of success, and the novels are doing better.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Lost Fleet novel continues on from the first. It is more of the same: space opera military SF that is well-crafted all the way around. Now, while it is more of the same, Campbell is definitely paying attention[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Less than two years after TSR had started publishing supplements and adventures set in the Forgotten Realms, there was a bit of a dilemma. TSR was revising their main product—Advanced Dungeons & Dragons—in an all-new edition. Since the Forgotten Realms[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For most of the series, “English-speaking peoples” means “English”, but for Churchill’s final volume this really widens the scope, with the United States being an ever more important entity through out the time period of the book. However, the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…