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Book Review: The Door into Fire by Diane Duane
The Tale of the Five, is an early fantasy series by Diane Duane which isn’t complete yet. It is the first series I read that had homosexual and bisexual characters who were just characters instead of stock humor characters, hateful villains or Afterschool Special-style protagonists where we learn important lessons about accepting others. Herewiss, Freelorn…
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Book Review: War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
War for the Oaks is an urban fantasy of the subset known as urban faerie. (While some more recent urban fantasy might tack on faeries in a mostly vampire and werewolf universe, this is primarily a novel dealing with Faerie and its intersection with the mortal world.) This novel originally came out in the ’80s.…
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Book Review: City of Bones by Martha Wells
City of Bones was originally published in 1995 and its reprint is due to come out in September 2023. This is an updated and revised version, and I’ll be basing my review on the galley copy I received from NetGalley. (This is a heads up in case you come into the review and immediately go,…
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Research/Worldbuilding Update
That is, I have finally gotten around to working on the research I should have been doing during the last time I had a hiatus. (Indeed, I should have been researching AND writing, or just researching. But I was also very busy and/or stressed so this did not happen. Also, I already Know Just Enough…
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