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From the ground, we stand. From our ships, we live, By the stars, we hope.” —�mantra of the Exodan fleet My apologies for the long delay between installments of LOTR; I’m doing my best, ...
by DrLori
on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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And here we are, finally at the end of our adventure. Strephon, the retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, has descended into the depths of the earth beneath the City of Redemption and battled the ancient being and part-time newspaper publisher...
by quarkstomper
on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 04:41 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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As you can see in this alternate Russian reality: ria.ru/… Now how will Russia escalate and distract everyone from catastrophic dam failures?
by formdk
on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 01:20 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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Welcome back to the adventures of Strephon, a retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, and Cassandra, a perfectly normal reporter working for a large regional newspaper in a city called Redmption. But beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and...
by quarkstomper
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 05:07 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Welcome back to the adventures of Strephon, a retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, and Cassandra, a perfectly normal reporter working for a large regional newspaper in a city called Redmption. But beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and...
by quarkstomper
on Wed Mar 20, 2024 at 05:30 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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Lincoln in the Bardo �by George Saunders, esteemed American short fiction author —�can we consider it a�fantasy? The winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2017,�routinely included on the list of ten ...
by DrLori
on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
with 35 Recommends
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Welcome back to the adventures of Strephon, a retired barrister and semi-immortal half-fae, and Cassandra, a perfectly normal reporter working for a large regional newspaper in a city called Redmption. But beneath the gleaming skyscrapers and...
by quarkstomper
on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 05:46 PM PST
with 5 Recommends
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It’s been a strange year, personally. Not a bad year, just a strange one. I’ve been skittering along on the surface of things, to busy too focus on any one specific project, reading too�many ...
by DrLori
on Mon Feb 05, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
with 50 Recommends
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Sometimes the lovely folks at Tor send me a book I would likely not have picked on my own, and I’m always better for it. I devour short story collections for breakfast; therefore, I thought I’d ...
by DrLori
on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
with 40 Recommends
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LGBTQ Literature is a � Readers and Book Lovers � series dedicated to discussing literature that has made an impact on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. From ...
by Chrislove
on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 04:30 PM PST
with 46 Recommends
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Okay, it’s not Mr. Gaiman’s Christmas Carol —�the honor�belongs to Charles Dickens, who used to read an abridged version of the classic novella on his book tours. Six years ago I first posted ...
by DrLori
on Mon Dec 25, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
with 41 Recommends
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Before all else, thank you, Clio2 , for stepping in last week with such a great discussion of YA fantasy/romance, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s� Storm and Fury �and the Moms for Liberty professional ...
by DrLori
on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
with 51 Recommends
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Prequels are dangerous things; for starters, they’re afterthoughts. All too often they don’t stand on their own, and their existence borrows from the original success, which tries to recapture ...
by DrLori
on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
with 18 Recommends
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The last Diary I posted was about how I had just been denied for Social Security Disability, and was waiting to find out if my lawyer was going to drop my case. Unfortunately, she did, and after speaking with her about it. I realized that since I’m...
by Puck Goodfellow
on Sun Nov 05, 2023 at 05:52 PM PST
with 13 Recommends
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Third of a series, tonight we finish up T. Kingfisher’s Southern horror (until she writes another one) with� The Hollow Places . There’s a lot of horror in this novel, and most of it I’m not ...
by DrLori
on Mon Oct 30, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 33 Recommends
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“People say they know things and try to look smart, but I don’t think anybody knows anything for sure. The hills’re just where the holler people live. Old-timers talk about seeing ’em now ...
by DrLori
on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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The Story So Far: After seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was nine I make a wish to see what I’ll be doing in 2021, thinking it would be some cool space job, only to find I’m a disheveled hippie putting a sign over a freeway that says “Science is...
by freewayblogger
on Fri Oct 13, 2023 at 02:16 PM PDT
with 72 Recommends
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Lighter and more self-indulgent fare today.
It is no secret that I am a failed, in the sense of not being successfully published or agented, writer. While writing this commentary on how imitative ...
by angryea
on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
with 30 Recommends
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My wife’s bookstore could use some loving from the DK community . We are going through some financial issues and her bookstore really helps pay the bills . She has science fiction, fantasy, horror, children’s books, first editions, signed editions, and...
by tufdaawg
on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 11:41 AM PDT
with 40 Recommends
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T. Kingfisher (pen name of Ursula Vernon) lives on a small farm in North Carolina. If you follow her on social media, you know about the Choose Your Own Adventure games she occasionally runs;�her ...
by DrLori
on Mon Oct 02, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 30 Recommends
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