https://killingmykindle.com/2018/03/19/episode-1-11-time-after-damned-time/ Wherein I Review: 35. Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett 36. The Stainless Steel Rat for President (Stainless Steel Rat #8) by Harry Harrison 37. Blood and Lemonade by Joe R. Lansdale 38. Just One Damned Thing After Another (St. Mary’s Chronicles #1) by Jodi Taylor Hap and Leonard do a very special clip show, still following the exploits of the inexplicable rat, I ponder what it’d be like if Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan went serial killer, and I finally find time travel […]
Pan-dimensional Pandemonium
Thanks to the newly revived Powell’s Daily Dose, a huge grower of my “to-read” list, this novel came to my attention and I’m glad I took the time to “Interlibrary Loan” it (since I couldn’t find it at either of my local libraries). Don’t let its 662 pages intimidate you. American Elsewhere is a fun combination of noir, horror, and science fiction with a bit of the Truman Show thrown in for good measure (only there are no TV cameras). Robert Jackson Bennett not only […]
Never, ever, never could this fight be worth what it asks of us.
Before I get started, City of Blades is the second book in Robert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities trilogy. I am a terrible judge of whether you will need the earlier book to understand this one, and I apologize for that. I don’t think I need to spoil anything about the first to talk about the second, but everyone has their own tolerance level. Non-spoilery, but necessary background about the world of the Divine Cities. One hundred years ago, the gods were real. The Continent was […]