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sIn the Blood is the fifth book in Jack Carr’s “Terminal List” series. The novel starts with a female Mossad agent who has killed someone in the nation of Burkina Faso in Africa. Leaving in a jet, it is blown out of the sky. She was a friend of James Reese going back to a […]
The Devil’s Hand is book #4 in Jack Carr’s “Terminal List” series. James Reese has been summoned by the new President of the United States to Camp David for a meeting. The President has a request. Twenty years earlier, his fiance was killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. There are […]
Savage Son is the third book in the Terminal List/James Reese series from Jack Carr. Reese is in Montana recuperating after brain surgery to remove a tumor caused by a drug given illegally for PTSD. He has vengeance on his mind. First, there is a CIA traitor who went over to the Russians and working […]
The Scandinavian sagas have had an influence on some the early fantasy writers: William Morris, E. R. Eddison, and of course J. R. R. Tolkien. I have had a copy of E. R. Eddison’s Styrbiorn the Strong lying around unread longer than I would like to admit. I have to get in the right frame […]
I mentioned George Shipway (1908-1982) a few weeks back as an accurate historical novelist. He had ten novels from 1968 to 1979. Three novels about Norman England, two novels about King Agamemnon, two Indian Raj novels, two political satire books, and Imperial Governor. Shipway served in the Anglo-Indian Army in the cavalry until 1946. Wallace […]
A novel I pulled out to reread is Don Tracy’s The Black Amulet. I read this decades ago and remembered liking it at the time. The novel is set in a barbaric period and I thought of another “Paperback Barbarian” entry. Don(ald Fiske) Tracy (1905-1976) was an American fiction writer who wrote for slick magazines, […]
Sword & sorcery as a fictional genre had its origin in the weird fiction pulp magazines of the late 1920s into the 1930s. There was a forgotten variation in Planet Stories in the 1940s. Then it disappeared from the magazines for the most part in the 1950s. There was a renascence in the digest magazines […]
The 1950s was a period when historical novels were very popular. Thomas B. Costain, Frank Yerby, Frank Slaughter were among the top tier. Some science fiction writers supplemented their income writing historicals including L. Sprague de Camp and Poul Anderson. Another was Gardner F. Fox. Fox’s specialty was the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. The […]
I have read foreign language fantasy translated into English when I find them. DAW Books had some translations of French writer Daniel Walther. The anthology Terra SF II (DAW Books, 1983) had more fantasy than science fiction, all from European writers. I have wanted to read the two novels of Norwegian writer Egil Rasmussen for […]
Around 42-43 years ago, had you gone to a chain bookstore like Walden Books or B. Dalton Bookseller at your local mall, there would be a good sized shelf of Andre Norton books. “Andre” Norton, born Alice (1912-2005) was a writer that started out more in the young adult market but became one of Donald […]
There is more sword & sorcery from a writer normally associated with a different genre. This time it is James Reasoner who is well known for westerns and some well regarded crime novels. “Washed ashore on a jungle-choked island in the delta at the mouth of the great Jehannamun River, Jorras Trevayle has survived an […]
Mark Sibley’s follow up to Mongol Moon is A Dance of Devils. After a Christmas Eve EMP attack blinds America and Europe, triggering a meticulously planned attack on the West’s civilian populations, only a ragtag team of neighbors stands in the way of a new Axis invasion.