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Book Review: Harm’s Way: A Star Trek TOS Novel by David Mack

On an undeveloped planet in the neutral zone between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, a scientist has gone missing. In fact, an entire team has mysteriously vanished. Ships from both the Federation and the Empire have sent teams to recover the scientist and any surviving research. But the planet turns out to be hiding a deadly secret. The two teams

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Book Review: ‘A Sleight of Shadows’ by Kat Howard

Sydney gave up everything to rid the unseen world of corruption. Almost completely mundane, she’s struggling to find her place in the world without her magic. But then the worst possible thing happens – the House of Shadows begins to rebuild itself. Sydney may not have her magic anymore but she refuses to allow that abomination to return to life. She’s

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Book Review: ‘An Unkindness of Magicians’ by Kat Howard

Side by side with the mundane world sits the world of magic. Powerful families with a rigid caste system rule this unseen world. But the wheel of fortune has begun to turn. Anything can happen during a “turning” and a young, unknown magician, Sydney, is hoping to turn the magical world on its head during this one. She has come to

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Book Review: ‘Loki’s Ring’ by Stina Leicht

Loki’s Ring is an artificial alien world that humans don’t really understand. Even though humanity has spread out to cover many different planets and star systems, they leave Loki’s Ring alone. There are plenty of other places to explore in space after all. But now greed has brought humans there, and they’ve unleashed something that could destroy the entire known universe

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Book Review: ‘Arca: A Five Queendoms Novel’ by G.R. Macallister

A terrible curse known as the Drought of Girls has inflicted the matriarchal society of the Five Queendoms for the past fifteen years. An entire generation without females has left the citizens of the queendoms fearful of the future. But with the death of the sorceress Sessadon, the drought has ended. Hope has returned but the change affects each of the

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Book Review: ‘Star Trek Picard: Second Self’ by Una McCormack

A suffering refugee population on a remote planet, a dangerous war criminal, and a (slightly) disgraced intelligence officer looking for their next move. These three things come together on Ordeve, a planet with a long and complicated history, in Una McCormack’s Star Trek Picard: Second Self.   [Note: While I am reviewing this novel independently and honestly, it should be noted that

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Book Review: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country’ by John Jackson Miller

In the year 2259, the U.S.S. Enterprise heads off to a planet so remote that it is only known by its surveyor’s catalog entry, FGC-7781 b. They’re investigating the disappearance of Braidwood, a civilian anthropological expedition that had been missing for almost a year. What they discover on FGC-7781 b is something that no one was expecting. Find out just what

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Book Review: ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ by Stephen Graham Jones

Don’t Fear the Reaper is Stephen Graham Jones’ gruesome sequel to his award-winning horror novel My Heart is a Chainsaw. Jennifer “Jade” Daniels, horror movie aficionado and honest-to-God final girl, is back in town after four years in lockdown. She couldn’t wait to get out before the grisly events of four years ago, and never wanted to return after those events,

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Book Review: ‘How to Defend Your Lair’ By Keith Ammann 

As a fan and player of Dungeons & Dragons for many years, I can admit that the game isn’t always the easiest to play. Like juggling, there are constantly moving parts that as a player you need to pay attention to. The game you play is vastly different depending on the class of character you decide to play. Factor in subclasses,

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