Title Author Publication
Date
WARLORD Fallon, Jennifer 8/21/2007
Final book in the trilogy: Marla Wolfblade and her children deal
with threats both internal and external to the kingdom of Hythria. Her
efforts are complicated by Hythia's entrenched ***ism.
There's something of a "with a mighty leap" to this last
volume but it does tie up most of the loose ends.
A MAGIC OF TWILIGHT Farrell, S.L. 2/1/2008
Political and religious struggles in a kingdom that reminded me
of a Renaissance Italy where Rome never fell (And yes, I understand that
would cause problems for a Renaissance).
MURDER IN LAMUT Feist, Raymond E. 8/1/2007
Joel Rosenberg
What begins as a body-guarding assignment evolves into a
murder investigation.
I have no memory of who dun it (And I am baffled why my brain
insists on seeing "LaMut" as "umlaut" and not "the dog").
THE BOOK OF JOBY Ferrari, Mark J. 8/21/2007
Arthuriana meets the Book of Job. Lucifer is an idiot who cannot
learn from experience while God is a smug bastard who is willing to let a
small boy be tortured for decades to make a point. It's possible that I
was
the wrong reader for this.
1634: THE BALTIC WAR Flint, Eric 5/1/2007
1634: THE BAVARIAN CRISIS Flint, Eric 10/1/2007
Two more entries in the seemingly unkillable 163* series, in which
a small 20th century Southern town suddenly finds itself trans****ted to
Germany in the 30 Years War.
THE BEST OF JIM BAEN'S UNIVERSE Flint, Eric 7/1/2007
This reminded me of the old days when Galaxy had its GALAXY
READERS and Analog its annuals. As I recall, JBU was only about a year
old when this came out so it's the best of a fairly small set.
I remember thinking at the time that the writers had clearly
figured out how to pitch stories to the magazine using a few elements
to appeal to the editor (In the same way that tossing psi powers into
a story helped the odds of selling to John Campbell) and that this was
not to the collection's benefit.
TRUANCY Fukui, Isamu 3/1/2008
A student in a willfully oppressive educational system becomes
caught up in the struggle against it.
This had some of the usual first-novel flaws but I had no idea the
author was 15 when he wrote this (Unlike a painfully awful fantasy novel
that I was sent, whose publication seemed as unkind to its author as those
group mockathons are to Jim Theis).
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http://www.cafepress.com/jdnicoll
(For all your "The problem with
defending the English language [...]" T-****rt, cup and tote-bag needs)
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