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Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky Review by Mica First let me get out my one major complaint about this novel, which I’m sure that many readers would have.  Fyodor Dostoyevsky is wordy.  He defines wordy.  Paragraphs span entire pages.  Characters monologue both to themselves and out loud.  As much as I love Dostoyevsky, there were parts that I [...]

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Dear Editor: The next time I see one of your novels in the fantasy section, it better not have any “constructs” walking around in it.  It better be all swords, and maybe some sorcery, and oh! Some vampires might be a nice touch, and… The definition(s) of high fantasy - they suck! Mentioned: LOTR, Harry Potter, Narnia, [...]

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Dead Until Dark is the first book in Charlaine Harris’s series The Southern Vampire Mysteries - adapted into the True Blood TV series. Review by Michelle I found this to be a real page-turner!  It was nothing like the TV series, which I hated.  There were many things that would offend people reading this book, but I’ll [...]

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Dear Editor: Enclosed is my resume for your consideration. Dear Reader: Boot to the Head! LOTR Sword of Truth Dark is Rising Matilda Narnia A Series of Unfortunate Events Mistborn Animorphs Star Wars Fern Gully

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Startide Rising by David Brin Review by Vicki Earl Startide Rising is a science fiction novel by David Brin in 1983. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel in 1984 and 1983. It is part of the Uplift series, a series of books featuring the concept of uplift technology. In this [...]

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Dear Editor: Are there different levels of space opera, kinda like the different levels of hell that reading them will send you to? Poul Anderson - Star Fox Firefly! Frederik Pohl ? Eschaton Sequence Philip K. Dick ? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? David Brin ? Startide Rising

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Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini Review by Vicki Earl Influence: Science and Practice is a nonfiction book written by Robert Cialdini. It deals with concepts in persuasive communication and can best be summarized by calling it a research compilation book. This is not one of your standard fare ?how to get people to [...]

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Neuromancer by William Gibson Review by Vicki Earl Neuromancer is a cyberpunk novel by William Gibson, in fact one of the first of its kind. It won the Nebula Award, the Phillip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. Neuromancer is the first of the Sprawl trilogy. It is set in the same world [...]

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Just what the title says! See you next time

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Late metacast is hilariously late because Vicki’s computer exploded while Mica was in Florida and then it was Christmas!  Sorry about that, enjoy the rest of your break!

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The Star Fox by Poul Anderson Review by Michelle The Star Fox follows Heim and his ship through a politically turbulent time for future Earth.  An alien race, the Alerionia, have taken over a far off human outpost.  While Earth debates endlessly over the situation, Heim takes action and a delightful Space Opera ensues. What most impressed me [...]

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Dear Editor: Your 15-book series “Undead Wizards of the Deep” is like a zombie: it keeps shambling on and on even after it’s dead, and it eats the brains of its readers. Content: There are many reasons that book, TV, and movie series go on and on and on. Large fan bases that clamour for more - e.g., [...]

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Search the Sky, by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth Review by Michelle. It was interesting reading a book that proudly declared “Copyright 1985″ on the cover — the year I was born!  Originally published in 1954, though as a “substantially different version,” this book is surprisingly enjoyable and timeless. Search the Sky is about dying human colonies and [...]

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<!– @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> Dear Editor: From now on all my communication with your office will be written in third person in the hopes that you will take it more seriously. definition How it relates to first person Degrees of unreliableness, from tricking the reader to making a funny examples: Jane Eyre: manipulation [...]

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Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson Review by Michelle Sanderson’s Mistborn series is fantastic as a whole.  Forceful characters are balanced by a logically explained setting.  His heroes and heroines feel like real people… Sorry about the delayed release.  Computer leprechauns corrupted the original mp3 I uploaded.

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Dear Editor: You know, for a “science” fiction editor, you sure let a lot of things slide by. I think by now every one knows that you can’t break the speed of light barrier, and thus time travel is impossible. Or was that warp drive? WHATEVER. It’s all impossible! IMPOSSIBLE, we say [...]

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Another great review by Jonathan.  Can we still call him a “guest” reviewer? Music by Pasqualino Ubaldini http://www.dogmazic.net/Pasqualino_ubaldini http://www.myspace.com/pasqualinoubaldini Personal Effects: Dark Art http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312383827/ and 7th Son: Descent http://jchutchins.net/site/order/ by J.C. Hutchins

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Dear Editor: I loved “The Battle of the Star Fish” so much, I think it could totally make an awesome movie.  The epic battle scene at the end would be SO EPIC. Topic: Today we discuss books that have been made into movies, both the good and the bad.  Of course, we only cover movies that [...]

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