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Review of Karen Traviss’s Imperial Commando 501st Star Wars Novel

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April 10, 2010

Review of Karen Traviss’s Imperial Commando 501st Star Wars Novel: The recent Star Wars novel by Karen Traviss, Imperial Commando: 501st , is the first of a planned series of five books, but is preceded by four Republic Commando books, which contain the same basic characters. None of this I knew when I visited my local Continue reading →

Review of S.M. Stirling’s The Scourge of God, A Novel of the Change

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December 29, 2009

Scourge of God Review The Scourge of God, sequel to S.M. Stirling’s The Sunrise Lands, and a part of the larger Change series, picks up where Sunrise Lands left off. Our protagonist, Rudi Artos MacKenzie, is on his hero’s quest to the fabled island of Nantucket to retrieve the Sword of the Lady (which happens Continue reading →

Review of S.M. Stirling’s Sunrise Lands, A Novel of the Change

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July 20, 2009

I just finished reading the paperback version of S.M. Stirling’s novel The Sunrise Lands and, just as with its predecessors in his inventive Novels of the Change series, this book comes off as a masterpiece among the alternate history/alternate universe genre. The main character, Rudi Artos Mackenzie, undertakes a quest, with the aid of eight Continue reading →