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 The N3F Review of Books

From the N3F :  The N3F Review of Books, Incorporating Prose Bono
Professor George Phillies, D.Sc., Editor
February 2022

Fiction
2 … A City of Ghosts by Betsy Phillips … Review by Tom Feller
2 … All Things Huge And Hideous by G. Scott Huggins … Review by Graham Bradley
3 … The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins ….Review by Graham Bradley
5 … Between Home and Ruin by Karl K. Gallagher … Review by Declan Finn
7 … Between Planets by Robert Heinlein … Review by Chris Nuttall
10 … Chalk by N.R. LaPoint …. Review by Michael Gallagher
13 … Flight of Vengeance by Andre Norton with P.M. Griffin & Mary Schaub …
Review by Caroline Furlong
15 … Good to the Last Drop by Declan Finn … Review by Ginger Man
17 … Grave Injustice by Allen Goodner … Review by Declan Finn
19 … Hell Spawn by Declan Finn … Review by Michael Gallagher
21 … Invasion: Contact: Book One by David Ryker … Review by Jim McCoy
23 … Jesus/Crawdad/Death by Betsy Phillips … Review by Tom Feller
23 … League of Angels by Thomas Tan … Review by Caroline Furlong
25 … Lost Souls by Tim Rangnow … Review by Becky Jones
26 … Mamelukes by Jerry Pournelle … Review by Pay Patterson
27 … Maxwell Cain: Burrito Avenger … Review by Declan Finn
31 … Overlook by Jon Mollison … Review by Ginger Man
32 … Overlooked Again by Jon Mollison … Review by Ginger Man
34 … Planetary Anthology Series: PLUTO Edited by Dawn Witzke and Richard Paolinelli …
Review by Pat Patterson
37 … Son of Cayn by Stormy McDonald, Alan Isom and Jason McDonald …
Review by Jim McCoy
39 … Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation by Tom Kratman and Company …
Review by Pat Patterson
41 … The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger … Review by Will Mayo
41 … To End in Fire by David Weber and Eric Flint … Review by Jason P. Hunt
42 … The Undertakers by Nicole Glover … Review by Mindy Hunt
43 … The Widowmaker by Mike Resnick … Review by Michael Gallagher
Literary Criticism
46 … Fiction House: From Pulps to Panels, From Jungles to Space by Mitch Maglio …
Review by Jon Swartz, N3F Historian
FINIS

 

Leggings for Readers!

Need stockings this winter?middleearthleggings_0

“What’s cooler than legs encased in coziness? Legs encased in bookish coziness. We’ve rounded up some awesome pieces…”

Indeed they have! comicbookleggingsThere are maps of Middle Earth and Westeros,  Super Heroes, quotations, and lots more. Have a look: http://www.quirkbooks.com/post/literary-looks-bookish-tights-and-leggings

But really over the top, IMO, are these:

GRRM 2
GRRM 3Wondering what GRRM thought of these? Me, too, so went looking, and found these comments on his “Not a Blog”
Stranger Than Strange
Every time I think my life could not possibly get any weirder, it does:
http://www.poprageous.com/products/grrm-leggings
I can think a dozen things to say about those leggings, all of which would get me into deep, deep trouble, so I had better just scratch my head and say, “No, really? This must be a joke.”

I don’t think I get any money off these. But who the hell knows at this point?

Current Location:Santa Fe
Current Mood:surreal

Tags: weird sh*t

Summer Reading

Quoted from File 770

Compiled by Jonathan K. Stephens. All thanks to Jonathan for assembling in one place the favorite stories named by readers over the past couple of days, and for his yeoman work in giving them a consistent format. He has also noted how many different lists a title appeared in. Get ready — 357 titles follow the jump. 

http://file770.com/?p=23395