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Hunters Moon by David Devereux

By Matthew Walker · Comments (0)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Hunters’ Moon
Author: David Devereux
Publisher: Gollancz (November 1, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0575082240
ISBN-13: 978-0575082243

Hunter’s Moon is the journal of a man up to his neck in the super-secret world of counter supernatural espionage. He says his real name isn’t important, and for the sake of convenience just to call him Jack - so that’s what we’ll do.

Jack is an operative of “Special Branch”, an elite British agency tasked specifically to deal with things that most people don’t know exist and wouldn’t believe if they saw it with their own eyes. Like so many of these kinds of organizations, they don’t officially exist; they’re so secret even MI5 isn’t cleared to know about them.
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Categories : Reviews: Books, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Movie and Book Reviews

Tags : David Devereux, Hunters Moon, urban fantasy

The Many Faces of Fantasy Fiction

By June Williams · Comments (0)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

The Many Faces of Fantasy Fiction
by June Williams
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“Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. “Rod Serling creator of the Twighlight Zone
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”-Arthur C. Clarke’s third law
“Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”-Larry Niven

Fantasy in fiction is hard to define because the boundaries keep blurring. When you see the words Fantasy Fiction many people conjure up imagery of faraway kingdoms. Something that looks 8th century, perhaps an even earlier period like the Bronze Age. Lands filled with castles, dragons, unicorns and all manner of wondrous mythical beasties. Realms populated with nobles and not-so-nobles, wizards, witches (not Wiccans), some dressed in silks, lace, furs and jewels others in tatters. Domains where mighty capped sword wielding warriors stand ready with loins girded to save damsels in distress or embark on quests at once noble and dangerous.
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Categories : Obscuria

Tags : dark fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy, fiction, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, swords and sorcery, urban fantasy

The Role of Weres In The Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs

By John Winn · Comments (0)

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Werewolves Are Cuddly…Not!
(The Role of Weres In The Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs)

The hoopla over the Mercy Thompson trilogy has got me thinking. No, I’m not planning to harm myself so that I can be turned into a werewolf and become an Alpha male (although judging by the cover art of the books, Mercedes is quite a catch). With all the attention in the trilogy on the role of pack relations and Mercy’s own relationships with Adam and Samuel, I had to know, how much of the sexual and emotional chemistry in the books was good ol’ deductive reasoning and how much of it was literary sizzle? Armed with this burning question, I did some sleuthing of my own. Armed with a day’s worth of gumshoe research at the local public library, and aided by my trusty sidekick Google, I came up with some titillating answers…only it’s not exactly the type of thing the mechanic herself would want to hear.
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Categories : Authors, Obscuria

Tags : Mercy Thompson, Patricia Briggs, shapeshifter, urban fantasy, werewolves