It seems that a couple of months ago, fantasy/sf author Robert Asprin died.
Asprin was probably most widely known for his creation of the Myth Adventures series, which is how I was introduced to him. For my nineteenth birthday, a high school buddy who had come down on vacation, presented me ...
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Author: Raymond Chandler Pages: 234 Year Published: 1939
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler's first novel, introduces us to one of the most famous detectives in fiction, Phillip Marlowe. Marlow is hired to find out who is trying to blackmail the daughter of his rich client and in the ...
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Author: Naomi Novik Pages: 384 Year Published: 2006
While the premise of His Majesty's Dragon is rather simple: what if dragons were used as an "air force," during the Napoleonic Wars, Naomi's Novik's execution of the concept is wonderfully entertaining.
The story begins with the capture of a dragon ...
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Author: Ian Flemming Pages: 272 Year Published: 1957
In From Russia With Love, his fifth outing, British Secret Service agent James Bond finds himself the target of a Soviet assassination plot, all the while attempting to courier one of the prized "Spektor" cryptographic machines out of Turkey ...
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Author: Stephen R. Donaldson Pages: 480 Year Published: 1992
Here's where the story really begins. Forbidden Knowledge takes everything from The Real Story, treats it as prologue and Donaldson really begins to explore the character and personalities of Morn, Nick and Angus.
Along the way, we're introduced to ...
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