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Ring Of Fire
Short stories by several authors continue the saga of the 1632 universe. Several of the stories are very excellent, some confused me.
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3/2008Words I Had To Look Up:
Morganatic (page 372) -- f, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of the parent of higher rank
Irenic (page 536) -- favoring, conducive to, or operating toward peace, moderation, or conciliation.
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4/2008
Ring of Fire II
Fifteen stories by various authors, edited by Flint. My favorite was Ellis Island, by Russ Rittgers, but all the stories were good.
The Philosophical Strangler
Joe's World #1. I read the Baen Free Library e-book edition.
A professional strangler and his manager have a lot of adventure, including the underworld!
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“Hadn’t been for that fucking comet,” I heard him mutter, “we’d still be running the show. Wouldn’t be any of this derring-do nonsense, let me tell you. Just loll about in the swamp, gobbling insects.” -- Chapter 24.Quote:
The salamander’s eyes bugged even further, and he hissed with outrage. “That’s Frankenstein’s monster, you ignoramus!” -- Chapter 28.
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9/2022
The Shaman Of Karres
Co-author Dave Freer. The Witches of Karres #4. The captain and The Leewit head off one place to do something, Goth heads off to another, and everyone meets up eventually. The universe (or something) is saved, the lost are found, sad farewells are said, new skills are learned, and there we go again.
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"You're not going to put a little girl in jail, are you?" asked the Leewit, doing her best to look like a little girl, sweet and harmless...in a way that would have frightened Pausert into blocking his ears. But then, he knew her.Quote:
"The two of you look like stunned breadfish," said the Leewit in disgust. "And I'll have my rochat back, you pet thief."Read:
11/2024
The Sorceress Of Karres
With Dave Freer. The Witches of Karres #3.
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[Goth says to her sister] "...Look after the captain for me, Leewit..." -- It's the Leewit!!! The Leewit will emphatically correct anyone who forgets the "the". Quote:
"Who are you calling a bumbling idiot, ma'am?" demanded the bumbling idiot...Quote:
It looked like a trumpery bit of stuff to Goth. -- Heh he, "trumpery... Quote:
"I really don't think so," said Goth. She hadn't known before that frost could actually form on words.Read:
11/2024
Time Spike
Co-written with Marilyn Kosmatka. An Illinois maximum security prison is transported 50 million years back in time,more or less, along with Cherokee Indians from the Trail of Tears, Spanish conquistadors, and various other people. And dinosaurs. Yikes!
Smoke Quote:
No matter how different they were in other ways, they shared the smoker's sense of withstanding a bitter and relentless siege shoulder to shoulder. -- pg. 419.Read:
2/2010
In The Country Of The Blind
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1/2001
Extremely loud and incredibly close
Interestly story of a boy coming to terms with the death of his father in 9/11. Lots of pictures and some colored pages, rather different for a fiction book.
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10/2005
The Pillars Of The Earth
Learned a lot about church construction and the often rotten life of even the better-off in Medieval England. Very happy I do not have to life there!
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When she woke up in the morning she discovered she was not pregnant.Things were looking up. -- pg. 387
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6/2019
Where The Sea Breaks Its Back
The story of Bering's second expedition, to Alaska, focusing on Georg Steller, the naturalist.
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Brigitte was only a year older than Steller, of German peasant stock, big-boned and buxom and full of animal vitality. Her plump warm body was always moist with perspiration, and patches of damp powder were caked on her neck and between her breasts, brazenly revealed by a low-cut bodice. (pg. 31) That's the paragraph that got me to read the book.
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4/2013
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Stirring stories of young man in His Majesty's Navy.
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"Hell!. said Hornblower, actually stamping his feet on the upper gangway in his anger. "Hell and damination!" --pg. 251Read:
12/2003
Apparition Alley
Lesbian Detective Kate Delafield is asked to help an officer who is accused of killing a suspected drug pusher.
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11/2001
Liberty Square
Lesbian LAPD Detective Kate Delafield is shot at in D.C. while attending a reunion of Vietnam Vets.
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11/2001
A Room With A View
I read the Project Gutenberg e-book edition. Which did not include the Appendix that the author wrote many years later. I didn't get very excited by this Edwardian romance. Some parts were good, some clever, some even funny. But mostly not.
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Chapter III: Music, Violets, and the Letter “S”
“She oughtn’t really to go at all,” said Mr. Beebe, as they watched her from the window, “and she knows it. I put it down to too much Beethoven.”
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8/2022
Flinx Transcedent
Last book of the Pip & Flinx series, as everything is wrapped up.
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11/2009Read:
12/2011
Flinx's Folly
Another Flinx and Pip adventure. Flinx visits his ex-flame Clarity.
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7/2008
Lost and found
First book of the Marc and George trilogy, I guess. Marc (and George) is kidnapped by aliens to be sold as slaves or something. They escape in volume one. George is a dog, by the way, who can talk, thanks to said aliens. LATER: It's called the Taken trilogy.
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Bunyanesque lengths of amputated oak crackled for attention within the Stygian depths of a corner fireplace fashioned of hand-laid river rock.Read:
8/2006
Patrimony
A Pip & Flinx Adventure. Flinx (and Pip, of course) go to Gestalt to find Flinx's dad. It's cold there. Pink snow.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Motile (pg. 42) -- Capable of movement.
Sybfiles (pg. 35) -- One hit on Google, probably a typo. An invented term?Read:
3/2008
Quofum
A small expedition of scientists go to the mysterious "disappearing" title planet to see what is up, and make some startling discoveries. Unfortunately, they are marooned there.
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12/2011
Sliding scales
A Pip & Flinx adventure. Flinx goes on vacation, ends up on a planet getting bonked on the head and losing his memory. Not a bad little story. A weep near the end.
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8/2006
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