Spencer Ellsworth
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A Red Peace (Starfire #1)
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Shadow Sun Seven (Starfire, #2)
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Memory's Blade (Starfire, #3)
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When Stars Are Scattered
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The Great Faerie Strike
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Fires of Mercy
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A fun, very grimdark and Abercrombie-esque look at a Black Company-type fantasy military outfit. If you read The First Law, the aforementioned BC, or at least struggled through some of Malazan, nothing here will be unfamiliar, but it's a fantasticall ...more | |
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This was so fun and so very f***ed up. I loved it so very much, and as a bonus, it was nice and short, though I would be glad to hang in there for six hundred more pages. I don't want to give away any of the twists, but the central conceit is that a b ...more |
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Really more 4.5 This was a blast. A horror novel that took everything about metal and its relation to horror and the macabre and collapsed it all into one shot of menace and meanness. I loved how the main character is forced to trust only the paranoi ...more | |
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This was still a great read, but after Empire of Silence there's a good bit of second-book syndrome. I did really enjoy the romance between Hadrian and his fellow captain (name escapes me) which subverted the expectation of the character Ruocchio was ...more | |
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This was still a great read, but after Empire of Silence there's a good bit of second-book syndrome. I did really enjoy the romance between Hadrian and his fellow captain (name escapes me) which subverted the expectation of the character Ruocchio was ...more | |
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For my money, Andrea Stewart does better magic systems than Brandon Sanderson and better romance than Sarah Maas. I loved The Gods Below unreservedly. The two main characters, sisters separated and forced into different sides of a war, were instantly ...more | |
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I wish I could give this ten stars. The most thought-provoking book I've read in philosophy, political science and personal progress. It doesn't sell itself as a philosophical treatise on the human desire for fulfilling work, but that's what it is. G ...more | |
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This was a great mob mystery/thriller set on the night Cuba fell and it's great. Although there aren't a ton of twists on the mob formula, the three women at the center of the story are great heroes, trying to get off the island before they are caugh ...more | |
“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”
― Swords & Steam Short Stories
― Swords & Steam Short Stories
“IT WAS THE MORNING after the morning after my hundred and fiftieth birthday, and a terrible noise was trying to wake me up.”
― Tor.com Publishing's Summer of Space Opera Sampler
― Tor.com Publishing's Summer of Space Opera Sampler
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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