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Viridian Gate Online: Nomad Soul by D. J. Bodden and James Hunter Book Review

What happens when the AIs you create to run the world’s first VR MMORPG are method actors who take their roles entirely too seriously? Alan Campbell, and perhaps the rest of the world, is about to find out. LitRPG is a hot genre at present. Ernest Cline’s Ready

Cascade: The Genesis Program Book 1 by Jeremy Spires Book Review

Cascade: The Genesis Program Book 1 [Amazon link] is an apocalyptic novel, a form of American popular culture that has been with us at least since the 1930s. The form of the end of the world takes is surprisingly mutable, but the underlying narrative structure is not. It involves a

A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes Book Review

With my re-posting of John J. Reilly’s commentary on Summorum Pontificum yesterday, it seemed like a good time to review this book I read a couple of years ago. Evelyn Waugh is one of the most famous, perhaps the most famous English novelist of the twentieth century. Brideshead is

Someone is Aiming for You and Other Adventures by JD Cowan Book Review

In a bleak, crime-ridden city, masked vigilantes prowl the streets, searching for the source of a corruption far darker and fouler than even the jaded citizens of Summerside can imagine. When I picked up a review copy of JD Cowan’s Someone is Aiming for You [Amazon link], I was

Gideon Ira: Knight of the Blood Cross: Deus Vult Wastelanders Book 1 Review

Gideon Ira reminds me of Solomon Kane, if he had a repeating firearm and power armor. This assessment of Solomon could easily be written of Gideon: A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, and urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, avenge all crimes against

Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn Book Review

Thrawn: Treason [Amazon link] is very much the culmination of Timothy Zahn’s Grand Admiral Thrawn. And also, in a sense, the culmination of all his work. Here, we get to see the Grand Admiral at his best: elusive, brilliant, enigmatic. Victorious against all comers [perhaps]. If you want to

Locks and Keys Throughout the Ages by Vincent J. M. Eras Book Review

This isn’t my first introduction to the classic volume, Locks and Keys Throughout the Ages [Amazon link]. The master locksmith who ran the university lockshop in which I worked as a student had a copy of this book, and it was a joy to re-acquaint myself with Vincent Eras’