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Review: A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe (2020)
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Review: A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe (2020)

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A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe

Thea Hope longs to be an alchemist out of the shadow of her famous mother. The two of them are close to creating the …
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Bookworms: The Martian (2014) by Andy Weir
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Bookworms: The Martian (2014) by Andy Weir

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The Martian

While the rest of his crew mates rocketed into Mars orbit, he lay bleeding and unconscious in the rust colored dust. And when he woke up, Mark Watney found that he was the only remaining inhabitant of Mars.
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RORY the Dinosaur…Me and my Dad
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RORY the Dinosaur…Me and my Dad

Meet Rory, the dinosaur! Rory is a very busy little baby dinosaur, who lives on an island with his dad. Rory and his dad have been hanging out a lot …
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Nerd Span Q & A with A.J. Moore

AJ Moore and CURNtheNERD aka Dean Self

Yellow City Comic Con in Amarillo, TX is a small but very nice con. Many Texas artists were in attendance this past weekend, including A.J. Moore. A.J. is an artist …
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Bookworms: Retcontinuum (2014) by S. Grulkowski (+Interview)

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Retcontinuum

Retcontinuum pulls you down the rabbit hole of its narrative and doesn’t let go until it has finished explaining to you just how precious time is, and how ultimately the decisions we make are the most important things we have, no matter how much time we think we have.
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Bookworms: The Memory Thieves (14) by Robertson (Interview)

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Combining old school noir with the best of magical realism, J.T. Robertson gives his readers a tight, gritty crime novella about a man on the edge willing to do anything to get free.
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Bookworms: The Star Wars Trilogy

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Star Wars Trilogy

The novelizations of the Star Wars Trilogy capture the magic and the wonder that is Star Wars in book form.
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Bookworms: Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card

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Ender

Ender’s Game is a book of contradictions. It is about children playing at war. It is about old men warring with children. It is about the wisdom of the young confounding the knowledge of the old. It is about xenophobia and unity. It is about war as a game.
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The Wrong Quarry (2014) by Max Allan Collins

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A former contract killer named Jack Quarry spends his retirement years killing contract killers, and, occasionally, the contractors. The Wrong Quarry slams like a slug from a .44 and doesn’t stop until the last body has dropped to the floor.
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Bookworms: Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years (2013) by David Goodman

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Star Trek Federation

The history of the United Federation of Planets, as seen in the Star Trek universe, is told through the stories of the men and women of the Federation’s galaxy renowned Starfleet. But just how did Starfleet, and the Federation, come to be?
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Bookworms: Star Wars: Kenobi (2013) by John Jackson Miller

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Star Wars: Kenobi

Space western. Those two words usually bring to mind Joss Whedon’s Firefly or something like Cowboys and Aliens. Occasionally one might think of Star Wars, but Star Wars is more epic space fantasy. Star Wars: Kenobi is a classic western with all the elements: the natives, the outlaws, the farmers, the mysterious stranger and is thoroughly Star Wars at the same time.
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Bookworms: War of the Worlds: Blood, Guts, and Zombies (2009) by Eric S. Brown

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War of the Worlds

H.G. Well’s alien invasion novel, The War of the Worlds, is well known. It has been adapted for film, theater, and most infamously radio, but with Eric S. Brown, we get a new life breathed into the old story. The War of the Worlds always was a commentary on the fragility of life, the arrogance of human superiority and the triumph of the common man, but Brown takes it one step further: it is now a reflection on the old mores of science fiction and how even something done to death can be reanimated to terrifying appeal.
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