Category: Reviews

SCIENCE FICTION TRAILS 13 – Editor David B. Riley

yup, the mixture as before, and as good as ever. Karl the dinosaur sheriff is back with his column, (discussing the origin of cooking in his time) and the cover is – by the ever reliable Laura Givens – striking and original. Layout and presentation are excellent, and the stories carefully chosen. My particular favourites …

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OPERATION HAIL STORM by Brett Arquette

I received this as an offer from Brett, I took it up as this was described as a techno-thriller, and I like a good thriller (McClean, Jenkins, Higgins, Bagley, all great.) I admit to being dubious since the techno part of that made me think twice, I’m not exactly a technophobe, more of a techno-illiterate, …

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CHRISTMAS FOR OLDER KIDS – A CHAPBOOK by David Riley

This came, to my pleasure, as an unexpected Christmas present from an author/editor to whom I’ve sold quite a number of stories over past years. And as I always enjoy his work I leaped upon it and read the whole thing in one gulp. I giggled and groaned as I read, and finally put it …

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LEGENDS OF THE DRAGON COWBOYS – Laura Givens/David B. Riley

This came in for review the other day and I was delighted. I’ve seen both authors’ work a number of times over the year and always enjoy it, and this duo is I fully expected to provide me with an excellent weekend’s reading – and it did. The Venerable Travels of Ling Fung walks a …

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SF TRAILS 12

I felt free to review this myself, since I don’t have work in it and can say what I like. So – well, it’s good. A nice mix of long and short items, humour, and the scarier stuff. In fact in this issue it was the shorter writing I really enjoyed, Karl’s Corner, A Dog’s …

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Those who Can Do, Those Who Can’t Criticize

A week or so ago I trotted off to the annual bookarama at our nearest town. Amid the other forty or so books that I bought was a Penguin Classics copy of Jack London’s assorted tales, including White Fang, and The Call Of The Wild. I happily read my way through them, and then turned …

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And Getting Fed-Up with Word Press

time and time again, I input a new item on my blog, and all too often it is then announced that there has been a server error and I should tell someone. It does this now and again when I access and delete spam, when I check on others of my posts, and then I …

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Lorna Freeman – and WORD PRESS problems

I am sorry for everyone that can’t follow older comments, you aren’t alone. Some time ago I found that Word Press won’t allow me to look at my own blog from the outside either. Now it won’t allow me to add my own comments in response to yours. Contact the webmater? Oh, yes, well, tried …

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BONDED AGENT by David Riley

Quick review of this book from Steve Johnson- wow. nudity, tits, a lizard king, and some very strange events. Read this, and if you’re my age, it’s all gonna remind you in a very weird way of Jim Morrison. And that can’t be bad! And (with a broad grin after posting that from a friend …

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The Martian Anthology ed. David B. Riley.

E-book, 12 stories. Wow, that’s all I can say. Wow. I’m a sentimentalist for media. I cry in sad movies and reading sad books and stories. And the first one of these got me right where I live. (I have Grown Old In Service To My Country by Cary G. Osborne.) For two reasons. One …

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