Tag Archives: Books

Peter F. Hamilton – The Reality Dysfunction (1996) Review

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

DNF at 65% Peter F. Hamilton’s first major space opera series clearly marks him as part of the British space opera revival movement that includes the authors Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds and Neal Asher. Hamilton’s big fat 1200 page … Continue reading →

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Steven Erikson – The God is Not Willing (2021) Review

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 A fantastic title, wouldn’t you say? The God is Not Willing’s first objective is to make the reader get used to the idea that we are in fact back in the Malazan universe, and that the world has changed. … Continue reading →

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Voltaire – Micromegas (1752) Review

Posted on May 5, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

What’s this, a story from 1752? Jeroen, why do you have to be so boring and intellectual? Why do you only read stuffy books from the attic? Why can’t you be more hip? I know you all want me to … Continue reading →

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Haruki Murakami – 1Q84, Book One (2009) Review

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 This is not an easy book to put in a box. Murakami wrote a kind of science fiction novel in which two main characters end up in a slightly alternate version of reality. It’s a form of slipstream fiction … Continue reading →

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Clark Ashton Smith – Zothique (1970) Review

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Zothique is a collection of Clark Ashton Smith short stories and is the brainchild of legendary editor Lin Carter who, in the 1970s, edited the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series which became legendary for its quality and for its dusting … Continue reading →

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R.A. Lafferty – Fourth Mansions (1969) Review

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 This is a long review. It’s Lafferty. Another crazy Lafferty novel that blew my mind. He has the greatest imagination of all science fiction writers. In this novel too, the writing is energetic, hyperactive even, but always controlled and … Continue reading →

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Philip Jose Farmer – To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1972) Review

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

4/10 The thing about To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1972) is that it has a really intriguing concept, but is written down by a terribly mediocre writer. And when I tell you what this book is about, you might want … Continue reading →

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Stephen King – Bag of Bones (1998) Review

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Stephen King’s Bag of Bones is at its core a haunted house story, and a homage to the classic haunted house novel Rebecca (1938) by Daphne du Maurier. But it is more than that. It is the story of … Continue reading →

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Roger Zelazny – The Second Chronicles of Amber (1985-’91) Review

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

Comprising: First, look at the time gap between the last book of the first cycle, The Courts of Chaos written in 1978, and Trumps of Doom in 1985. The first five books were a completed story, and Zelazny may well … Continue reading →

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Michael Moorcock – The Citadel of Forgotten Myths (2022) Review

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 for the first two parts, 4/10 of the third part. It is 2022 and Michael Moorcock returns to his most popular creation, Elric, to give us a new and probably last ever novel of the sword and sorcery hero. … Continue reading →

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