Monthly Archives: April 2024

R.A. Lafferty – The Reefs of Earth (1968) Review

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 An exceedingly strange little novel about six alien children (seven if you count Bad John) who are stranded on planet Earth and decide to exterminate the human race. Looking at my little nephews, that is about five more than … Continue reading →

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Glen Cook – The Silver Spike (1989) Review

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 No matter what you might have heard about this book, I am here to tell you that this is excellent fantasy and totally worth reading. It’s true though: this is not everyone’s favourite entry in the series and much … Continue reading →

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Review: The Compleat Enchanter (1975) by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea. The humoristic fantasy novellas by American authors L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt arose in a time in the 1940s from the well of inspiration that is old mythology. Being unfamiliar with Robert … Continue reading →

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The Gone World (2018) by Tom Sweterlitsch

Posted on April 16, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 The Gone World is a darn good thriller/SF novel. Consisting of equal parts boots-on-the-ground crime investigation and space/time travel, this novel offers a combination of TV shows like True Detective and NCIS and SF like Twelve Monkeys and The … Continue reading →

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The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear (1999) by Walter Moers

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Putting bears in your book is always a recipe for success; talking bears, doubly so. This curious, layered and whimsical German fantasy novel (originally published as Die 13½ Leben des Käpt’n Blaubär) looks very much like a children’s novel, … Continue reading →

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Christopher Ruocchio – Howling Dark (2019) Review

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 Howling Dark, the second novel in Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series. Thus far, no suns have been eaten. The end of the first novel, Empire of Silence (2018), marked the start of an exciting new journey for Severian-like Hadrian Marlowe … Continue reading →

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