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Kelley Armstrong's The Otherworld Series
Eight years after book one was released in hardback, The Otherworld series continues with book ten, Frostbitten. Author Kelley Armstrong isn't slowing down soon.
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Eden Inverted
His Dark Materials has been widely analyzed using countless schools of thought as its Rosetta Stone. The philosophy that best describes the tale, however, is Gnosticism.
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His Dark Materials, Blake, and Gnosticism
The worlds created by Philip Pullman owe a great debt of inspiration to the works of William Blake; specifically, his alliance to The Gnostic Myth.
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Gnosticism in His Dark Materials
The books of His Dark Materials have elicited much critical and academic analysis; one school of thought is conspicuously missing, however: Gnosticism.
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SF Book Review – The Neanderthal Parallax
With the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome on the horizon, now is a good time to read or revisit Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning trilogy, The Neanderthal Parallax.
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Lian Hearn: Heaven's Net Is Wide
Lian Hearn's prequel to the Otori saga is beautiful and fills in the last questions readers may have had about the patriarch, Otori Shigeru, who started it all.
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Alternate Generals: Edited by Harry Turtledove
History is written by the victor. In this case, the victor's history is rewritten in this compelling short story collection.
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Book Review: Alternate Presidents
Every four years, Americans elect their president but what if things turned out differently?
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Book Review: The Eyre Affair
Thursday Next is not your average detective. She doesn't solve cozy murder mysteries or look into the minds of deranged killers. Instead she solves crimes of literature.
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Boudica 2, Warrior of the Iceni
Boudica: Dreaming the Bull, is the second book in the highly acclaimed Boudica series, and takes the reader further into the war between Rome and tribal Britian.
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Boudica, Historic Warrior Queen
In the first novel of the Boudica series, author Manda Scott relates the story of the fabled warrior queen of the Eceni tribe, located on the south-east coast of England.
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Song of the North by Jules Watson
Song of the North presents an intriguing glimpse into ancient cultures and magic of Scotland (Alba) under Roman rule, but Watson's world-building disappoints.
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