by G.L. Breedon | Aug 5, 2011 | Books, Space
Via i09, the site Sci-Fi-O-Rama has a great post. In 1969 Time-Life Records released TO THE MOON, a six record set interviews and astronaut conversations along with an accompanying photo diary book. Sci-Fi-O-Rama has some beautiful scans from the book. I only wish...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 27, 2011 | Books, Fantasy, Reviews
I finished Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear a while ago. Before I write about that I should write about The Name of the Wind, the novel that precedes it in his King Killer Chronicle. I loved The Name of the Wind. LOVED IT. I hadn’t read a novel...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 26, 2011 | Books, Retro-Nostalgia, Science Fiction, SF & Fantasy News
Great news today. SF Gateway will be publishing tons of great sci-fi classics as ebooks over the next few years. Whole back lists of authors whose work is currently out of print an unavailable. They are being published by Orion Books, the same folks who are bringing...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 23, 2011 | Books, Wizard of Time
After much work (much more than I expected), The Wizard of Time is finally available for sale as an ebook. The print version will be available sometime next week. Time travel and magic. It’s like peanut butter and chocolate. Think Doctor Who meets Harry Potter....
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 17, 2011 | Books, Fantasy, Reviews
I finished Susanne Collin’s Hunger Games this weekend. I know, I’m a little behind in my reading. It seems everyone has read it. Especially now that it is being made into a film. I liked it a lot. Not as much as I wanted to, but quite a bit. The choice to...
by G.L. Breedon | Jul 13, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Science Fiction
I read The Passage a few months ago, but I didn’t have this blog then. Although I did like The Passage, I felt I could have liked it much more. Partly that is because I was not expecting a 250 page prologue. Nor was I expecting the time jump in the story after...