Flashback Friday: The Empire Trilogy
Raymond E. Feist, author of the quite lengthy Riftwar Cycle series (30 novels and 3 short stories in length), wasn’t my favorite author as a teen. In fact, I stopped reading the Riftwar Cycle somewhere around book 9, Shadow of Read More…
Flashback Friday: Gulliver’s Travels
The first time I read Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (published in 1726), I was ten. My father and I were up in Michigan visiting my paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember it was the holidays, and we Read More…
Flashback Friday: The White Raven
I read The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson in 8th grade, with no knowledge that it was a retelling of the Celtic legend about Tristan and Iseult. In fact, I’d never even heard the legend of Tristan and Iseult in Read More…
Flashback Friday: Crystal Singer & My Alter-Ego
Published in 1982, Crystal Singer was penned by Anne McCaffrey as a result from events in her personal life. If you don’t know a lot about Anne McCaffrey, she was a musician and opera singer for a bit of her Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Mists of Avalon
EDIT: Since writing this post, I’ve learned about the author’s history of child molestation and abuse. I can no longer support MZB’s works or this book. You can read more on that here. 876 pages. That’s the length of Marion Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Time Machine
When I was a kid, I thought that traveling in something like a time machine would be fabulous. The ability to see history unfold–in my child mind, I was really thinking the ability to change history. My brain didn’t comprehend Read More…
Flashback Friday: Alas, Babylon
I’ve always held a healthy obsession with post-apocalyptic literature and dystopian novels. Everything from modern works like Wool by Hugh Howey, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, & The Giver by Lois Lowry, to older works like Alas, Babylon by Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Hobbit
aka Greedy Little Midgets & Why My 12 Year-Old-Self Sucked I wish I could say that I enjoyed every science fiction & fantasy novel I ever picked up as a child, but I can’t. I’d be lying if I did. Read More…
Flashback Friday: Watership Down
Watership Down by Richard Adams was the first adult novel I read as a child where the main character wasn’t a human. When much younger, I’d enjoyed children’s chapter books such as Bunnicula by James & Deborah Howe and Charlotte’s Read More…
Flashback Friday: The War of the Worlds
While you enjoy this Flashback Friday, I’ll be talking craft at Emerald City Comicon. I’m excited that wonderful SF/F authors such as Cornelia Funke, Patrick Rothfuss, Neil Stephenson, Hugh Howey, Kevin J. Anderson, John Scalzi, and Dave Farland/Wolverton will be Read More…
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