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“Who carved a mountain into a cathedral?”

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

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  If you are missing the political machinations and betrayals of Game of Thrones and aren’t sure if GRRM is going to finish the last book before he shuffles off his mortal coil, you should definitely check out The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. It has all of that AND it’s a finished series so no waiting for the next installment. This book is the first of a trilogy, plus a novella and a book of short stories. The story follows Yiene, whose mother was the heir […]

Dawn – An intriguing take on human-alien interactions

Dawn by Octavia Butler

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I first read the Xenogenesis saga of Octavia Butler when I was a teenager and it arrived with a ton of other books I ordered from some science fiction book club (I had just gotten a job and was a dumb kid, don’t judge). What I remembered most from the initial read was the use of cancer cells by the alien race, the Oankali, to reshape their own bodies which I thought was a brilliant concept (actually still think it is brilliant). Maybe I did […]

DUNE

Dune by Frank Herbert

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  This is a difficult book to write a summary for. It’s been around for nearly 60 years, has been adapted multiple times already, has another adaptation coming out this year, and yet before first reading it in 2013, I had no idea what it was about. So what kind of scope do you give a synopsis for something like this? I really don’t know. Also the last time I wrote more than 100 words at a time was many years ago so excuse the […]

So that what happens to game designers when they retire?

Billy and the Beast by Eli Easton

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Eli Easton is the pen name of Jane Jensen a game designer and writer who helmed one of the more successful Sierra adventure game series, Gabriel Knight. She is also somewhat blamed for the death of adventure games due to a specific puzzle in Gabriel Knight 3 and the fact that it was the last adventure game released by Sierra. This is a shame mostly due to Jane Jensen being A. one of the only female game designers who directed her own series of games […]



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