Thus far, reviews for Mark T. Barnes’s debut, The Garden of Stones have been very divided. Some praise its unique and exotic flair, others grew bored quickly. After a recent slew of favorable reviews, I decided to give it a shot since it was already on my Kindle and cost me nothing but time (although time…
It was as if Christ and his saints were asleep. Thus wrote one of the many authors in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle when describing the dark period in English history known as The Anarchy. The Plantagenets by Dan Jones was actually the first piece of non-fiction that I’ve read for pleasure in quite some time – an issue…
Honorous Jorg Ancr…wait…this isn’t about Jorg. Immediately upon the reveal of the title Prince of Fools, comparisons were drawn between it and Mark Lawrence’s debut, Prince of Thorns. Doubts were cast as to whether Lawrence could write a non-Jorg character or not. Both of them have prince in the title and both feature an eponymous young…
Leviathan Wakes is big. It’s Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Cosmos big, I think. Several days ago I said that Cosmos was one of the most important things to happen to television in the past decade or more – it provides both younger and older crowds with very accessible science. Remember back when the History and Discovery channels aired stuff…
Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire trilogy, comprised of Prince, King, and Emperor of Thorns, has been one of the most talked-about series in the past several years. Since the “emergence” of dark fantasy in the form of grimdark from the Warhammer 40k universe, various authors have tried their hands at it, and few have been as successful as Mark…
