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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Where did I go?

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If you've stumbled into this page, I can only imagine that you're likely lost among the glittering ruins of the world wide web. But ...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

New book out today -- "Alien Family Values"

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While I'm almost certain after five-plus years of my absence that no one is visiting this site anymore, I'll drop this here just in ...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Review: "Grey Sister" by Mark Lawrence

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One of the most glaring absences in my 2018 reading was Mark Lawrence’s “Grey Sister” ($7.99, Penguin). Lawrence’s books have been a fixtur...
Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Review: "Son of a Liche" by J. Zachary Pike

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Disgraced hero Gorm Ingerson and his dysfunctional party are outlaws, but they may also be the only hope against an army of the undead in J...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Review: "Iron Gold" by Pierce Brown

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Thanks to reduced reading time in 2018, there were some big books on the stack, from authors that I really love, that I didn’t get to read....
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019

Review: "The Armored Saint" by Myke Cole

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Not being much of a military SF fan, I hadn’t read Myke Cole until the Tor newsletter offered “The Armored Saint” ($14.99, Tor) as a holi...
Monday, December 31, 2018

My favorite reads of 2018

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There’s not a lot to recap as the calendar runs out on 2018. It was a slow and strange reading year for me. It was a year of less reading...
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I am a veteran entertainment writer with a love of hard rock and heavy metal. I've written music reviews, columns and feature stories for several newspapers, Web sites and a national wire service. I've run Hall of the Mountain King in various places and incarnations since 1997.
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