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A Nomad of
the Time Streams by Michael Moorcock
If you want
your adventures to take you away this time travel series by Michael
Moorcock is just the ticket. To only associate him with his Elric stories
is to sell this wonderful writer short. An excellent series!
(review)
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Homecoming
by Orson Scott Card
 
Featuring the entire Homecoming series
by Card. I'd heard less than favourable things by a friend who read
these, so they stayed on my shelf for a while. One day I decided to
get them over with. Man was I surprised. Quite an interesting series,
and full of the stuff you'd expect from Card. Other than the jolting
changing of gears on the last book, it was a really good read.
(Review)
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Song of Kali
by Dan Simmons
One of the more depressing books I've read
in a while. Yuck. Haunting though and really quite good. I read this
around the same time my sister was traveling in India too, which made
it more fun.
(Review)
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The Goldenwing
Cycle by Alfred Coppel
  
A series I started based solely
on the cover art of the first book. Who says you can't judge a book
by its cover? The first book was really very good, the second and third
on a declining scale. Still overall a real surprise.
(Review)
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Cloud Castles
by Michael Scott Rohan
Another in The Spiral Series by Rohan.
This guy is just about the best author I've read in terms of moving
characters between dubious realities. It's almost plausible the way
he does it. Usually these stories don't work for me, this one and the
previous two were really fun, and were quite different than most of
the stock fantasy stuff out there. Which may explain why it didn't sell
like crazy and make MSR a household name. Fah to the great unwashed
masses who know not what they miss.
(Review)
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5 Novels by Daniel
Pinkwater
 Sigh.
Daniel Pinkwater. A man who never forgot how to be a kid. These 5 Novels
were a salve on a sore heart when life was shit (to quote the Dead Milkmen).
Very funny, very poignant, and very good. Sorry about using the shit
word. You'll find I hardly ever use profanity on this site. I justify
the use of the shit word (which I must say is getting a lot of use here
today) by thinking of it as a vulgarism.
(Review)
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Thieves' World
edited by Robert Lynn Asprin & Lynn Abbey
 Not
just the first book, the entire series. The first book was good, but
as the series progressed it actually got better, and better. Very
much a surprise considering the whole braided stories concept, and
the fact they were able to maintain the momentum over 12 books, and
then go out leaving the reader wanting more was a pretty good trick.
(Review)
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The Girl Who Loved
Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
 This
would be a top ten if King didn't somehow manage to sneak in near the
bottom. I really like this guy, along with a bajillion other people.
This was a fun weird read that was annoying at the same time.
(Review)
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The Dragon
and the Fair Maid of Kent by Gordon R. Dickson
 This
wasn't supposed to be the last in the series - Mister Dickson was supposed
to live until he ran out of ideas. Admittedly this is not the best of
the Dragon books, but it was a must read in my pile. Over the last year
or so the series found a soft spot with me, and there was something
really fun about the characters. He'll be missed.
(Review)
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Colony
by Rob Grant
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finally a comedy. Not a great book, but it was so funny at one point
I was laughing out. Which isn't a bad thing, but can be embarrassing
when you're on a crowded bus and can't stop, and it only got worse the
faster I tried to read through the offending bits.
(Review)
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