Review of The Kensei by Jon F. Merz on SFSignal
My review of The Kensei, the 5th Lawson vampire novel by Jon F. Merz, has been posted on SFSignal.com. An excerpt: When you mention vampire and sword in the same sentence, most people will...
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Meteor Menace (Doc Savage #3)
This is the 13th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order. As I’ve stated many times, re-reading the books in the originally published order links them together. This story starts in Chile, where...
A new book from JoSara MeDia – The Judas Conspiracy
My wife and I started a publishing and media company a couple of years ago for a variety of reasons, to keep me off the streets, and mainly so that she would humor me...
Jack of Ravens by Mark Chadbourn
At the beginning of the year, I devoured (pun intended, Mark might get it) Mr. Chadbourn’s Age of Misrule trilogy. It is only fitting that I end the year with the start of the...
Hidden codes in the Mona Lisa
We always new it was true…or at least wanted it to be. From the Dec. 12 UK Telegraph: “To the naked eye the symbols are not visible but with a magnifying glass they can...
The Man Who Shook the Earth (Doc Savage #43)
This is the 12th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order. Though this story was written in 1934, it is the first in the series chronologically that mentions what will become World War...
The World Crisis by Winston Churchill (Part 1: 1911 – 1914)
Winston Churchill was a prolific author, and received the Nobel prize in Literature in 1953. His more well know historical works are his six volume memoirs of the Second World War, and his four...
Kindle differences
Many readers and authors do not realize that Amazon’s Kindle solution works on a wide variety of devices. Amazon has a “Kindle everywhere” strategy, and has released versions for iPhone/iPad/iPod, PC, Blackberry, Android and...
The Phantom City (Doc Savage #10)
This is the 10th story in Street and Smith’s original publishing order. Two red letter events for Doc fans: – Doc accidentally KO’s Monk, out cold with one swing; – the first appearance of...
The Czar of Fear (Doc Savage #22)
This is the ninth story originally published by Street and Smith. The Czar of Fear has one of the least exotic locales of any Doc Savage story. Following chronologically after The Lost Oasis and...