Monday, November 29, 2010

Manga Monday: An overgrown adolescent ends up with a kid, but not in the normal way

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Guys have a horrible reputation when it comes to children. For the most part, it's really undeserved; plenty of guys make at least as g...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Can maple syrup really save the world?

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Live Free or Die is a really strange take on the First Contact subgenre of science fiction. Of course, when we’re first approached by an a...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Manga Monday: A reflective look at WWII by a resident of Hiroshima

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Although manga has been taken seriously as a form of literature in Japan for much longer than graphic novels have been in the West, the Wes...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Manga Monday: An honest look at how girls grow up

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Boy coming-of-age stories are a dime a dozen. Half the shonen series out there are about 8-14 year old boys striking out on their own and f...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

It's really not a good idea to make a werewolf nobleman mad...

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Note:  Blameless is the third book in the Parasol Protectorate  series.  If you haven’t read it already, check out my review of Soulless   h...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Manga Monday: Chasing justice and a cure around the world

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There’s a horrible condition in a rural backwater of ‘Doggoddale’. Called monmow, it deforms the patient, making them look more like a dog t...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Who needs airplanes when the air force can ride dragons?

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Alternate history stories can go one of two ways. In the first, the author is so concerned with the history that the story itself gets lost...