(Picture from here.) Television was different when I was a kid growing up in California. It was early days. There wasn’t the vast backlog of material available that there is now. But there was the same need to fill dead … Continue reading
New Worlds, Year Four New Worlds 4 by Marie Brennan Bathing and banking, animals and adultery: human culture contains a truly daunting array of elements. The fourth volume of the NEW WORLDS series takes readers on a tour of all-new … Continue reading
The Nautilus Knight The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Book 7 by Brenda Clough When her husband is accused of distributing pornography, Marian Halcombe Camlet is left in London juggling children, business, and a frightening … Continue reading
This morning I am immersed in the Twentieth century, during which I have spent more than half of my life (so far). A part of me wishes I knew more about (and cared more about) current popular culture, but I … Continue reading
Captivating the Countess School of Magic 6 by Patricia Rice Can a ghost help a marquess to save his father and captivate a countess? … Continue reading
Danse Mécanique by Steven Popkes Dot 1.0, a performing software robot, does as she is told. Dot 2.0 has other ideas. … Continue reading
Billabong Flats 3 Australian animal adventures by Ria Loader All are welcome at Billabong Flats in the Australian Bush. Who will the new dingo pups become? Can wildly different animals learn to dance? What mysteries are hidden in the oldest … Continue reading
Anastasia Devlin is a virtual assistant, an invisible researcher and finder-of-all-things, known to her clients as a handle and a PO Box. She’s also the daughter of a gorgeous, dysfunctional woman of many marriages & affairs who has spent a lifetime globetrotting and possibly spying for her country. At twenty-six Ana bolted, and has been hidden from her family for four years.
Then one morning she opens her door to find her nine year old sister Elizabeth Georgiana, I.E. EG for Evil Genius. And the plot just gets more tangled and crazy from there.
Continue readingThe River Horse Tsar The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Book 6 by Brenda W. Clough Hidden in the back of an artist’s canvas is a golden token that draws Marian Halcombe Camlet into a … Continue reading
SHAMAN, by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, is a collection of tales that concern the adventures of eccentric kilt-wearing anthropologist/archaeologist/xenologist Rhys Llewellyn and his assistants Yoshi Umeki and Roderick Halfax.
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