Gordon A. Long
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This novel is Epic Fantasy in the most sweeping scope and style, but the book’s true appeal comes from the portrayal of the main character, Runa. Much of the conflict is internal. There are four ways to show personality: what the author tells us direc ...more |
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This book has all the elements of a good Sci-Fi story. It discusses the rise of Artificial Intelligence, which is topical these days. It has a detailed future setting with a realistic social order. It has a reasonable amount of hi-tech gadgetry. It h ...more |
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This novel is a Fantasy love story, a coming-of-age tale that becomes a character’s life story, concentrating on her youth and old age but reflecting multiple images of different generations of her family and friends. The fractured plotline could be c ...more |
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| First: why you might want to pick up this novel. It’s a good Sci-Fi, “rebels against the empire” tale. It has likeable, believable characters, and the creative dodge is having the rebel leaders mostly women, which brings a refreshing change to the to ...more | |
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| One technique of good paranormal writing is to create a distinct magical setting with clearly defined rules. Then the author can set up an effective and believable conflict within that context. One disadvantage of the Internet is that authors have ac ...more | |
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| Since the author’s pen name means “writing” in Latin, we can be sure that’s what the book is all about. And therein lies a problem. There is a tiny subgenre of the Fantasy book world that is peopled by scholars and nerds who just love this sort of th ...more | |
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| Novelists always have an objective in mind: an idea to teach us, called their theme. But nobody listens to a philosophical rant, so writers attract our attention with a striking cover and entertain us with interesting characters, conflict and suspens ...more | |
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| This is a Sci-Fi Romance story. As the title leads us to expect, the science part of it revolves around mental interconnection, and this leads to a few passionate scenes. However, they concentrate on the emotions in a tasteful way, a pleasant departu ...more | |
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| This novel is about the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories. What if there really was a secret cabal controlling the world, but they lost control of the system, and it started controlling its creators? The only chance humans have to hold ...more | |
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