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Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen (Part 2 of The Graven) – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Azura Ghost by Essa Hansen

Essa Hansen’s Azura Ghost, second book in The Graven series, marks an enormous step up from her already impressive debut, Nophek Gloss. This new story takes us deeper into the mysterious multiverse of the Graven, an ancient race of vast accomplishments that disappeared ages ago but left numerous traces both in architectural and technological remnants […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Space Opera, Taking on My SciFi TBR Tagged With: adventure, alien life forms, consciousness, family, memory, multiverse, power, space opera, transcendence

The Bone Ship’s Wake by R. J. Barker – A Review

By John Folk-Williams

The Bone Ship's Wake

The first two books of R. J. Barker’s The Tide Child trilogy (The Bone Ships and Call of the Bone Ships) blew me away with a sustained level of sheer excitement, inventive detail of a sea-faring world of two archipelagos, a great set of characters and incredible staging of naval battles. These books brought me […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction Tagged With: adventure, battle strategy, conscience, fantasy, redemption, ships

Taking on my SciFi TBR – Summer Wrap-Up

By John Folk-Williams

The Bone Ship's Wake

Well, I worked through this summer’s scifi TBR, adding a few more titles along the way, but not all of the novels and stories were quite right for me. I’ve already reviewed the four I really loved – books that changed me in some way. Those are Notes from the Burning Age, And What Can […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Taking on My SciFi TBR Tagged With: adventure, David Brin, dragons, fantasy, Fonda Lee, qntm, rebirth, RJ Barker, robots, singularity, The Tide Child Trilogy

Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler #WyrdandWonder

By John Folk-Williams

Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler

Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler is the first book of the Burningblade & Silverye series, and it’s a roaring good adventure. Just don’t expect anything deeper from the story. It focuses on Gyre and Maya, brother and sister, who are violently separated in childhood when a fearsome warrior known as a centarch removes […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: adventure, alien technology, cities, combat action, epic fantasy, magic, rebellion

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Every now and then a book surprises me, especially when searching through the often dated fiction for Vintage SciFi Month. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight, first in a mighty line of 23 novels set in the Pern universe, is one of those. It’s a surprise because I’m not a big fan of fantasy, yet I keep finding […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Anne McCaffrey, dragons, Pern, power, psychic powers, relationships, revenge

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