Licanius Trilogy – James Islington Regular readers of this blog will know that I usually like to start the year by reading a chunky epic fantasy series. For obvious reasons, this year I’m feeling the need for the full-blown escapism of a properly epic series more acutely than ever. Having started previous years with Tad…
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I read the first book in the Unhuman series a few years ago now and posted a blog entry on the subject at the time, as I’ve now finished the series I thought I’d repost that blog, revised slightly in light of my thoughts on completion. Wilkie Martin’s Unhuman books are an episodic series set…
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Following on from the my previous post on the merits of Dave Duncan’s The Seventh Sword, here’s a look at a couple more of his collections, although it’s really one series in two parts. A Man of His Word/A Handful of Men Pandemia is a world populated by all the major fantasy races, Elves, Dwarves,…
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Ah the Eighties, what a decade. There’s no ironic nostalgia here, I was lucky to be born in 1978 and spent my childhood blissfully enjoying the wealth of cultural phenomena, actual queues at the cinema for great films (Star Wars, E.T. Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Back to the Future, Labyrinth, Big), a top 40 which wasn’t…
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