Archive for the ‘Escape Velocity’ Category

Locke, Stock, and Two Smokin’ Good Reads: Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastards

Posted: 28th March 2013 by Brian in Books, Escape Velocity
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Legions of fantasy readers were thrilled earlier this month by the announcement that The Republic of Thieves, the (really) long-awaited third novel in Scott Lynch‘s Gentlemen Bastards Sequence, at last has a publication date (October 8, 2013). It’s been six and a half years since the last book’s release, in which time problems both personal and otherwise have […]

Meet Miles Vorkosigan, Your New Favorite Character

Posted: 3rd January 2013 by Brian in Books, Escape Velocity
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That singularly awesome part of the science fiction universe known as “space opera” is currently enjoying something of a renaissance, thanks to the extravagantly imaginative novels of writers like Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, and Peter F. Hamilton. Adding morally ambiguous verisimilitude to their widescreen-worthy concepts and imagery, these writers have made it once more […]

The Rigante: Like History, Only Better!

Posted: 13th September 2012 by Brian in Books, Escape Velocity
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Every other Thursday, Brian goes out of this world, waxing recommendatious on great reading that will transport you to fantastic, far-away worlds and times.  Looking to escape? Escape Velocity is your bi-weekly ticket! Within the world of science fiction and fantasy, possibly my favorite little sub-sub-genre is one I recently decided to call the crypto-historical. Most usually […]

Two Sought Adventure: Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser

Posted: 9th August 2012 by Brian in Books, Escape Velocity
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Every other Thursday, Brian goes out of this world, waxing recommendatious on great reading that will transport you to fantastic, far-away worlds and times.  Looking to escape? Escape Velocity is your bi-weekly ticket! Fantasy doesn’t have to be epic to be great reading. Today’s case in point: Fritz Leiber’s long-running series of stories about Fafhrd and […]

The Desert of Souls : Adventure in the 1,001 Nights  Tradition!

Posted: 26th July 2012 by Brian in Books, Escape Velocity
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Welcome to the debut of this new bi-weekly column, in which I get to wax recommendatious about great escapist literature every other Thursday. Because y’know, sometimes you don’t need a searing indictment of gender relations in a war-torn third-world country. Sometimes you just want to let an author take you somewhere neat in your mind, […]