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Moses Maimonides wrote The Guide for the Perplexed in 1190. Eight hundred 800 years later, Jonathan Levi wrote A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel, loosely based on the original text with some fantastical alternative history.
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“Chasing Black Unicorns: How Building the Amazon of Africa Put me on Interpol’s most wanted list” by Marek Zmyslowski is entertaining, educational, and more vain than you would expect.
It’s equal parts tell-all, vanity press, and fish-out-of-water. This is, after all, the story of a Polish entrepreneur in Nigeria.
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Douglas A. Anderson’s collection of stories gathered in Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy appears to be more from before Tolkien’s works were published than “classic stories that inspired the author of The Lord of the Rings” but I can’t fault the publisher for trying to drum up sales.
Of the 21 stories that make up this collection, there were only a handful I enjoyed and four that I truly loved…
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I have read the collection of stories known as “The Monster Book of Zombies” edited by Stephen Jones, which is more than just Tales of the Walking Dead as the subtitle suggests. It’s variations on a theme. Perhaps that’s the standard as I’m not often a short story collections reader.
I’m also not much of a horror reader, so to attempt to properly review this collection would be folly. However, I have chosen my favorite short stories from this collection to share with you.
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Brad Watson’s short story collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives is something of a revelation for a publication released in 2010. The stories contained within could take place from the 1970s through the 2000s, though their relevance and enjoyment seems to be timeless.
That’s the point of stories, particularly short stories – they are supposed to endure with some kind of lesson or sense of purpose either bestowed upon or lost on the reader.
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