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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Galactic Millieu – The Nonborn King

The Nonborn King by Julian May

July 22, 2019 by MarkAbaddon Leave a Comment

After a bit of a dip in the last volume, this one is an improvement as a major new character is introduced and others become more well defined. The character is Marc Remillard, part of a family that had been referenced obliquely before and referred to as the main family of psychics in humanity. In my first review within this series, I mentioned a Paramount Grand Master being the pinnacle of psychic ability, and Marc is Paramount in a number of psychic powers (the 5 […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: alien, Celtic, Julian May, mind powers, myth, psychic

MarkAbaddon's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: alien, Celtic, Julian May, mind powers, myth, psychic ·
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Galactic Millieu Epic – The Golden Torc

The Golden Torc by Julian May

July 21, 2019 by MarkAbaddon Leave a Comment

My enjoyment of the series starting dipping a bit starting with this book because May took great pains to establish certain rules in the first volume and then started playing a bit loose with them here. One of the rules was that no human who had metapsychic powers could ever use the one way time gate. The reasons for this are not really well established, nor is it ever explained why none of any of the alien races ever wanted to go into the past […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: alien, Celtic, Julian May, mind powers, myth, psychic

MarkAbaddon's CBR11 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: alien, Celtic, Julian May, mind powers, myth, psychic ·
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Re-reading a much loved series

The Many Colored Land by Julian May

July 21, 2019 by MarkAbaddon Leave a Comment

I love writing reviews but some are harder than others. There are some books one reads as a teenager or young adult that help shape their interests, their philosophies, really begin to define the template for who they are as a person. For me, those books included the Lord of the Rings, Thomas Covenant and yes, the 9 books within Julian May’s Galactic Millieu epic. So it will be challenging for me to be completely objective about these books. The answer to why this book […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: alien, Celtic, Julian May, mind powers, myth, psychic

MarkAbaddon's CBR11 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: alien, Celtic, Julian May, mind powers, myth, psychic ·
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No, not that Martian. The other one.

January 19, 2016 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

If you’ve somehow made it this far in life without at least hearing of this book, you are both a marvel and curiosity. To give you a basic run down of the plot: the world is invaded by Martians around the turn of the previous century, and humanity is woefully ill-equipped to fend off the invaders. In other words, have you ever seen a movie or read a book or heard someone tell a story in which aliens invade earth? It no doubt owes at […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: alien, classic sci-fi, invasion, mars, martians

ingres77's CBR8 Review No:6 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: alien, classic sci-fi, invasion, mars, martians ·
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