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If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refuse …
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire …
Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, DC—triggering an extinction-level global-warming event—Earth’s survivors have started an international effort to establish …
Soon I Will Be Invincible is one of my favourite superhero books. Sadly, Fight Me is not as good. I did love the characters and the writing is competent, but ... there was no ending, no real resolution to anything. It almost dragged this down to three stars, and I cannot really blame anyone who tosses the book at a wall in disgust.
Still, while reading, I enjoyed this immensely, just couldn't put it down. I just wish etc.
Conrad Navarro is a champion of the Pageant, a modern day gladiatorial exhibition held in secret arenas across the globe. …
I found myself liking this not at all. The stories blended into one another, felt formulaic and pointless. Lovecraftian doom, purple prose, insinuations of great revelations which never come ... Barron hadn't yet found himself, I think. But being a completionist, of course I had to read it as well.
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the …
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the …
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the …
Definitely a product of its time -- a bunch of short stories, where the protagonists are physics and general left-brain approach to problems. The writing is bare-bones, the characters are paper-thin, the politics are facepalmingly dated. My three stars are because I like physics in my sci-fi, but it's more like 2.5 stars really.
