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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Ever After by Kim Harrison (and also takes a look at Quail Ridge Books and Music in Raleigh, NC)

Posted on 2013-02-16 at 05:11 by angelablackwell

Rachel has to help Trent and Quen keep their family together when enemies threaten in Kim Harrison’s latest Hollows novel. Rachel’s demon nature becomes both a help and a hindrance as she, Trent and Quen try to get everyone safely home. Rachel’s demon acquaintances are no help because the main enemy is a crazy demon created to help the demons conquer humans. This monster is damaging the ever-after and if the demons don’t do something about it their realm will cease to exist and magic will disappear.

Ivy

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Necessity’s Child by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

Posted on 2013-02-05 at 19:53 by angelablackwell

Necessity’s Child is a new Liaden Universe® novel out today from Baen.  For those not familiar with this universe, it is a space opera, but one based around interplanetary trading rather than warfare.  The “aliens” in the universe are humans (though of slightly smaller stature than the terrestrial variety) who came to the planet Liad from another universe many generations before.  Liadens and humans from our universe are able to interbreed, but there are many cultural differences, and there are several

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Ice Forged by Gail Z. Martin

Posted on 2013-01-21 at 04:27 by angelablackwell

Ice Forged By Gail Z. Martin out January 8, 2013 from Orbit

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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Sunset of the Gods by Steve White

Posted on 2013-01-21 at 03:22 by angelablackwell

Sunset of the Gods Out January 1, 2013 in trade paperback from Baen

2^nd Volume in the Jason Thanou Series

(1^st volume was Blood of the Heroes and 3^rd Volume will be Pirates of the Timestream)

The pseudoscience explaining how time travel works is well done with the author accounting for all of the obvious problems. Reality protects itself so if you

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What to Do With That Gift Card, Part 2: Science Fiction Reads for 2012

Posted on 2013-01-08 at 17:13 by angelablackwell

Here are some suggestions for what to spend your holiday gift cards on if you are a science fiction reader.

First, a couple of caveats: in order to pare down the number of books we need to cover, we the reviewers are sticking primarily with authors or publishers from the southeastern part of the US, and we gave fantasy and science fiction titles for middle grades and teens their own post.

In order of release date, January 2012 saw Baen’s paperback release of Back to the Moon by Travis Taylor and Les

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What to Do With That Gift Card, Part 1: Fantasy Reads for 2012

Posted on 2012-12-25 at 06:32 by angelablackwell

Here are some suggestions for what to spend your holiday gift cards on if you are a fantasy reader.

First, a couple of caveats: in order to pare down number of books we need to cover, we the reviewers are sticking primarily with authors or publishers from the southeastern part of the US, and we gave fantasy and science fiction titles for middle grades and teens their own post: /2012/12/20/exploding-spaceships-2012-guide-for-family-reading/ .

Starting off in book release date order, from January 2012, we

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The Exploding Spaceship's 2012 Guide for Family Reading

Posted on 2012-12-20 at 04:52 by angelablackwell

We get asked by many families at conventions if we have any recommendations for families to read together, so here are some suggestions from among the middle-grade and teen books released this year.  For the middle grades, Rick Riordan books are always a good choice with the newer Heroes of Olympus and Kane Chronicles series being our favorites. 2012 saw the release of Book 3 of both series, The Mark of Athena and The Serpent’s Shadow.  Riordan’s writing craft has improved since his Percy Jackson series, so

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The Exploding Spaceship: Reviews of Fire Season and Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Posted on 2012-12-03 at 17:23 by angelablackwell

The Exploding Spaceship by Gerald and Angela Blackwell: Reviews of Fire Season and Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Fire Season: A Star Kingdom Novel by David Weber and Jane Lindskold (hardcover release Oct 2012 Baen Books, ebook available at www.baenebooks.com)

Fire Season is the sequel to A Beautiful Friendship, the first young adult book in Weber’s Star Kingdom universe. The series chronicles the adventures of Stephanie Harrington, the teenage discoverer of the treecats of the planet Sphinx, and her

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The Exploding Spaceship: Review of A.J. Hartley's Darwen Arkwright and the Insidious Bleck

Posted on 2012-11-19 at 18:32 by angelablackwell

[Editor's note: The Exploding Spaceship is a new regular column by Gerald and Angela Blackwell, covering books, authors, events, and who knows what else.]

THE EXPLODING SPACESHIP: Review of Darwen Arkwright and the Insidious Bleck by A.J. Hartley -- Volume 2 in the Darwen Arkwright series (Nov 2012, Razorbill)

The previous volume in the series (Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact) won the Southern Independent Booksellers Association’s Young Adult Book of the Year award for 2011. This series is an

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