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21 reviews
H. Beam Piper

Leisure/Wildside, 2008

A science fiction classic!
I picked this book up the other day at a used bookstore. I decided to do this when I saw that the book was in better shape than the one I have in the basement and the price was great (only $3.00, not bad at all for a book that I love). Having picked it up, I immediately started to read Space Viking (again for the upteenth time). As with many of Mr. Piper's books, Space Viking is as much a look ...

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year

3 reviews
Rich Horton

Leisure/Wildside, 2008

Good collection, misleadning cover
The cover of the mass market paperback of the 2007 version of this series lists the names "Joe Haldeman, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Swanwick." Yet none of those authors is represented here. Perhaps the publisher used the cover from another year, updated the year, but not the rest of the cover. It's a good collection, but the publisher should have been more careful.

Wolves of the Gods (The Timuras Trilogy)

3 reviews
Allan Cole

Leisure/Wildside, 2008

An engrossing continuation of the Timura trilogy.
An engrossing continuation of the Timura trilogy, WOLVES OF THE GODS delves even deeper into the connected fates of its main characters and expands the landscape and cultural scope of the epic. Again, I can't wait for the next book in the series.

The Misenchanted Sword: A Legend of Ethshar (Legends of Ethshar)

37 reviews
Lawrence Watt-Evans

Leisure/Wildside, 2008

One of the best fantasy books nobody's read.
This little gem is the sort of book that you pick up at the used bookstore with twenty other paperbacks, not expecting much, and then end up treasuring for years. Much modern fantasy relies on rather generic plot arcs and characterization that substitutes brutality for realism. Lawrence Watt-Evans falls into neither of those traps. The book starts with an apparently rather generic plot -- ...