Tag: books
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Book Review – The King’s Blood by Daniel Abraham
Note: some minor spoilers. The King’s Blood is the second book in Daniel Abraham’s “The Dagger and the Coin” series, and I’ve been looking forward to this since finishing the first book, The Dragon’s Path. Abraham has built an interesting world around the 13 races of humanoids left behind after the rule of dragons had ended. …
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Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition – What We Know
The site is getting hammered, but here’s what’s been gleaned from various sources (most notably Trent Oster’s Twitter account) about the now-official Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition (BGEE): Both BG1 and BG2 will be getting the ‘Enhanced’ treatment – though what that is exactly hasn’t been laid out. Improved graphics, bug fixes, and Trent says it…
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Ender’s Game News – Ben Kingsley and Hollywood Whitewashing
Some notes:Â This post has some plot details of Ender’s Game: The Book, so if you haven’t read it (and WHY NOT) read the rest of this at your own risk. I hesitate to even write this, as Orson Scott Card’s books were a pretty fundamental part of my childhood, after I read my brother’s…
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Dads get the shaft
 Father’s Day is coming up (June 19th if you’re scoring at home), and even if you decry the commercial aspects of the various parental celebration days, you have to admit that we Dads kind of get shafted with this one. First, thanks to it’s placement on the calendar, we will never escape the lame ad…
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Book Review – The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham
I just finished The Dragon’s Path, the latest novel by Daniel Abraham. Once, dragons ruled the land where the book takes place, but mostly what is left are the roads. The city of Vanai, often used as a token swapped back and forth between empires, is again threatened by war. It’s a war former hero…
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Book Review – Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
I wish I had more time to read, as I really enjoy it. In fact, much of my formative internet time as a kid on up was spent in the discussion boards and later websites/forums for my favorite author, Orson Scott Card. It was awesome – here was a whole group of people who spoke…
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InterGalactic Medicine Show
If you are a fan of science fiction, you should check out Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, which is an anthology of stories from OSC’s web magazine. Two friends of mine have been published there (Ty Franck and Scott Roberts) and would make the compilation well worth it.