Agent Palmer

Never judge a book by its cover. This may be true, but for honesty’s sake, I must say that the reason I chose to pick up Magic of the Plains: By the Sword Volume 1 by Greg Costikayan was exactly because of its cover. Particularly, I got it for its back cover which states “BY THE SWORD MAGIC OF THE PLAINS As seen on Prodigy®.” For those of you my age, this will have a certain mystique.

Sometimes the story of our relationship with a book is as interesting as the book itself. In the case of my relationship with Storming Intrepid by Payne Harrison, it is more about timing. But as I have finally read this book completely, perhaps for the first time, I want to explain just how good this book is and my relationship with it.

Travis Baldree has returned to the cozy fantasy world established in Legends & Lattes with the prequel Bookshops & Bonedust. This time, instead of choosing to stop adventuring and open a coffee shop in the city of Thune, Viv is wounded in battle and dumped in the small backwater beach town of Murk.

They’ve done it again. The duo of Edward Miller and J.B. Manas have once again mixed science fiction with religion, realism, and Rapture in their newest written collaboration, “The One.”

What happens when one of the most inventive novelists of contemporary modern literature writes about the future in the context of new ideas and their future repercussions in a five-chapter book, each representing one hour? In this case, you get Player One: What Is to Become of Us (The CBC Massey Lectures), which was created for the 2010 lectures.  “Five disparate people are trapped inside an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster: Karen, a single mother waiting for her…