Showing posts with label urban fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label urban fantasy. Show all posts
Saturday, August 1, 2015

How far can a friendly dragon get in the world?

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The nicest dragon in the universe slowly wins people over with his sincerity in Rachel Bach's One Good Dragon Deserves Another . ...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

A mother's love can be...difficult at best.

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Dragons have a certain image to uphold. Vicious, ruthless and driven, they can be found both  as leaders of corporations and heads of underg...
Friday, April 18, 2014

The deep web has never been so deep.

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Alif is a cypher. The first letter of the Arabic alphabet, it is a single vertical line. A simple name for a person whose life takes place i...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

If I raised a cat from the dead, I'd name it Lazarus, too.

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Barbara Everette is back, fighting for the Light in the second Special Circumstances book  Queen of Wands  by John Ringo. Note:   Quee...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

When the military takes over, there's only so much a person can take

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In the near future, a virus strikes North America.  Large swatches of the population die, and hospitals are overrun with patients.  Border s...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally have a grown-up demon fighter to follow.

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Most 'Chosen One' stories deal with teens or children as their main characters.  Both are tumultuous times in a person's life, a...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

If spirits inhabit both the consensual world and the Otherworlds, it only makes sense they'd wander into cyberspace as well

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Spirits inhabit every piece of the Earth in Newford.  Some, like the cousins, prefer the more open, untamed areas like the woods or the Ari...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Newford gets a visit from Australia

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Charles de Lint takes Newford back into Young Adult territory with an Australian flavor in  Dingo While this is the 22th book in the  Ne...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Bite-Sized Bits of Urban Fantasy

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While this is the 12th book in the Newford world, it is certainly accessible to first time readers of Charles de Lint's work.  While the...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Sometimes the evil in the world isn't the magic aspect

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The dark side of urban fantasy doesn't always have to be the magical side. Sometimes, the mundane world is more than able to create its...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A teen primer on urban fantasy

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Charles deLint is the grandfather of urban fantasy. Without him, the whole scope of modern-day fantasy would be changed. His Newford serie...