by A.S. Hardin | Nov 8, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.” Though A Princess of Mars isn’t ERB’s most successful work, it is still one of the many great pulp sci-fi stories in history....
by A.S. Hardin | Sep 13, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I have always loved cryptids, specifically Bigfoot and Yeti. Maybe it’s because I’m drawn to stories about the unknown, or because I enjoy ones of survival in inhospitable or uninhabited settings, or maybe it’s because I’ve grown up with the legend of the Alabama...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Aug 9, 2024 | Determined to Dance Podcast, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Guest Bloggers
Good morning and Happy Friday! Today I thought I’d dive into The Naked Sun, one of my favorite works by Isaac Asimov, which feels particularly poignant in the current climate of AI and technology rapidly subsuming our lives. The novel opens with detective Elijah Baley...
by A.S. Hardin | Jul 12, 2024 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
While it may appear Black Sun Rising is a typical good vs evil quest tale, that would be an incorrect assumption. First, Friedman crafts her world in meticulous detail with an incredible amount of rich history and magical depth, expertly making the futuristic world of...
by A.S. Hardin | Nov 10, 2023 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Honored Enemy was my first Raymond E. Feist novel and of his roughly 40 published works, I’m glad it was. Though this novel is the first in the Legends of Riftwar, the story itself falls near the end of a decade-long battle between two worlds, Kelewan and Midkemia. It...
by A.S. Hardin | Nov 11, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“What are you, Kane … man or demon?” “I’ve been called both, though both races have damned me often enough. And I claim neither – although once men called me brother.” One of the best feelings for a secondhand book lover like...
