fantasy

The Silmarillion

J. R. R. Tolkien, Edited by Christopher Tolkien “The Silmarillion, now published four years after the death of its author, is an account of the Elder Days, or the First Age of the World. In The Lord of the Rings were narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age;” The Silmarillion was […]

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Time Crawlers: Stories From a Parallel Universe

Varun Sayal “These stories are events that my brain somehow tapped into and captured in detail. Let me know if your unconscious mind visited the same universes as mine.” Time Crawlers: Stories From A Parallel Universe is a collection of six short science fiction stories. The stories do not lack action, advanced technology, or mythology but […]

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Tony Plumb and the Moles of Ellodian

J.M. Smith “All I want is the truth, I want the truth. ‘I’m thirteen,’ he said out loud. Shoppers eyed him and hurried on. ‘I’m thirteen and I have a right to know. I have a right to know. Hey,’ he said to no-one in particular, ‘wouldn’t you want to know if someone said your […]

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My Father’s Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett   I am revisiting one of my favorite childhood reads. My Father’s Dragon is the first book in a series of three: My Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, The Dragons of Blueland.  If you have not read My Father’s Dragon, know it is a children’s read. There […]

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A Wrinkle In Time

Madeleine L’Engle “I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.”  “Maybe I don’t like being different,” Meg said, “but I don’t want to be like everybody else, either.” I am not going to lie, I saw the […]

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