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There are more than a thousand British soldiers trapped on a small island off the Turkish coast, and the Germans are sending a huge force to smash them. The British Navy wants to pull them off, but the only route that can be taken goes ...
It's a big book all right!
This doorstopper contains a multitude of fun pulp adventure stories, from the so famous it's almost cliche "The Most Dangerous Game" to obscurities never before reprinted. With a wide range of genres and sett...
This is a huge book, and pretty much everything in it is choice, being some of the best stories from thirty years of Black Mask magazine, the number one source of hard-boiled detective and crime fiction in the pulp days.
I especially li...
IDW, through the Library of American Comics imprint, has been reprinting the long-running Dick Tracy comic strip in over-sized volumes, starting from its 1931 beginnings. This volume covers the turn of the decade from the 1940s to the e...
This is an abridged and dolled-up reprint of A.B. Mitford’s Tales of Old Japan with lots of color illustrations. Tales was originally published in 1871, as Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, a member of the British legation in Tokyo, wit...
Osamu Tezuka is best known in the United States for his early children’s manga and their subsequent animated adaptations like “Astro Boy” and “Kimba the White Lion.” But later in his prolific career, he also produced quite a few works f...
American English is its own animal, with a vocabulary that marks it out from British English. This volume traces American history through the words that have been important to or invented by Americans. It’s set in roughly chronological...
Disclaimer: I received this book in a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. This is my 25th win!
This is the first English-language book specifically about the battle for Shanghai in 1937, which is considered by so...
Miyamoto Musashi, author of A Book of Five Rings, was one of the greatest swordsmen of his time (the 1600s) and something of a warrior-philosopher. He’s become a legendary figure, and there have been many fictional accounts of his life ...
Johnston McCulley wrote the first Zorro story, “The Curse of Capistrano” way back in 1919. Set in Spanish California, it told the tale of Don Diego (de la) Vega, a foppish young nobleman who in secret was Zorro, the fox, masked protecto...
I’ve been avoiding reviews of this book, so this may be very redundant of other things you’ve read about Redshirts.
The Universal Union capital ship Intrepid has a problem. Or rather, the crew does. Especially the lower-ranked members...
An improved follow-up to the first volume, giving Branan a more talkative foil than his camel. In this volume, he meets Saphira, the daughter of Delilah (and apparently Dagon, which would make her semi-divine/demonic.) She's a spoilt g...
In Ouroboros fashion, DC’s line of black and white reprint comics returns to its roots.
Back in 1956, National Comics (DC) had more ideas for comic books than they had publishing slots to put them in, and readers asking for dozens of...
I am told this was the first book I ever read on my own, and out loud. Which pleased my parents at first, but then I just kept right on reading it aloud to anyone who couldn't get away in time...
Another cracking adventure of the bloodthirsty hero known as the Spider.
The twist this time is that when last we and the Spider saw the Fly, that criminal had been skewered by a sword and fallen several stories into a river. If it had...
Not much progress in the frame story this time; Fujimoto suspects he's being watched by his superiors. He is. There's also a bit more on how this world's history differs from ours.
But as usual, it's the dying people whose stories are...
Disclaimers: I received this book in a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would read and review it. I am a Christian, but not a Catholic, which influences my reaction to this volume.
This volume is part of the "Come and See" Bib...
Disclosure: This is a book received from the Firstreads program, on the premise that I would review it. Also, I should mention here that I am a Christian, although not Catholic, so my reaction to this is necessarily different from what...
Disclosure: I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. Also, I read an Advanced Reading Copy, and there may be small changes between it and the final product.
This is the fifth Crispin Gue...
A fine example of the "planetary romance" subgenre, complete in itself but with obvious sequel hooks (as indeed the sequels proved.)
Disclosure: I received this book as a Firstreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it.
This is the first of a series about Vish Puri, owner and operator of the Most Private Investigations office of New Dehli in India. He's a...
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There are more than a thousand British soldiers trapped on a small island off the Turkish coast, and the Germans are sending a huge force to smash them. The British Navy wants to pull them off, but the only route that can be taken goes ...
It's a big book all right!
This doorstopper contains a multitude of fun pulp adventure stories, from the so famous it's almost cliche "The Most Dangerous Game" to obscurities never before reprinted. With a wide range of genres and sett...
This is a huge book, and pretty much everything in it is choice, being some of the best stories from thirty years of Black Mask magazine, the number one source of hard-boiled detective and crime fiction in the pulp days.
I especially li...
IDW, through the Library of American Comics imprint, has been reprinting the long-running Dick Tracy comic strip in over-sized volumes, starting from its 1931 beginnings. This volume covers the turn of the decade from the 1940s to the e...
This is an abridged and dolled-up reprint of A.B. Mitford’s Tales of Old Japan with lots of color illustrations. Tales was originally published in 1871, as Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, a member of the British legation in Tokyo, wit...
Osamu Tezuka is best known in the United States for his early children’s manga and their subsequent animated adaptations like “Astro Boy” and “Kimba the White Lion.” But later in his prolific career, he also produced quite a few works f...
American English is its own animal, with a vocabulary that marks it out from British English. This volume traces American history through the words that have been important to or invented by Americans. It’s set in roughly chronological...
Disclaimer: I received this book in a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. This is my 25th win!
This is the first English-language book specifically about the battle for Shanghai in 1937, which is considered by so...
Miyamoto Musashi, author of A Book of Five Rings, was one of the greatest swordsmen of his time (the 1600s) and something of a warrior-philosopher. He’s become a legendary figure, and there have been many fictional accounts of his life ...
Johnston McCulley wrote the first Zorro story, “The Curse of Capistrano” way back in 1919. Set in Spanish California, it told the tale of Don Diego (de la) Vega, a foppish young nobleman who in secret was Zorro, the fox, masked protecto...
I’ve been avoiding reviews of this book, so this may be very redundant of other things you’ve read about Redshirts.
The Universal Union capital ship Intrepid has a problem. Or rather, the crew does. Especially the lower-ranked members...
An improved follow-up to the first volume, giving Branan a more talkative foil than his camel. In this volume, he meets Saphira, the daughter of Delilah (and apparently Dagon, which would make her semi-divine/demonic.) She's a spoilt g...
In Ouroboros fashion, DC’s line of black and white reprint comics returns to its roots.
Back in 1956, National Comics (DC) had more ideas for comic books than they had publishing slots to put them in, and readers asking for dozens of...
I am told this was the first book I ever read on my own, and out loud. Which pleased my parents at first, but then I just kept right on reading it aloud to anyone who couldn't get away in time...
Another cracking adventure of the bloodthirsty hero known as the Spider.
The twist this time is that when last we and the Spider saw the Fly, that criminal had been skewered by a sword and fallen several stories into a river. If it had...
Not much progress in the frame story this time; Fujimoto suspects he's being watched by his superiors. He is. There's also a bit more on how this world's history differs from ours.
But as usual, it's the dying people whose stories are...
Disclaimers: I received this book in a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would read and review it. I am a Christian, but not a Catholic, which influences my reaction to this volume.
This volume is part of the "Come and See" Bib...
Disclosure: This is a book received from the Firstreads program, on the premise that I would review it. Also, I should mention here that I am a Christian, although not Catholic, so my reaction to this is necessarily different from what...
Disclosure: I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it. Also, I read an Advanced Reading Copy, and there may be small changes between it and the final product.
This is the fifth Crispin Gue...
A fine example of the "planetary romance" subgenre, complete in itself but with obvious sequel hooks (as indeed the sequels proved.)
Disclosure: I received this book as a Firstreads giveaway on the premise that I would review it.
This is the first of a series about Vish Puri, owner and operator of the Most Private Investigations office of New Dehli in India. He's a...
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