Month: December 2017
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Comic Book Review – Black Bolt Vol. 1, Hard Time
Volume 1 of Black Bolt’s solo series, subtitled Hard Time, is out. Writer Saladin Ahmed and artist Christian Ward fulfilled the promise of the first issue (which I looked at previously) and more. Ward says a lot about who gets put in prison and why, while not ignoring the kickass fights and teleporting dogs we…
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Book Review – Artemis by Andy Weir
Artemis, by Andy Weir, starts out as a bit of a heist book. Set in the first city on the Moon, Artemis follows Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara as she navigates her life as a porter, her sideline as a smuggler of contraband, and her disapproving father. One of Jazz’s smuggling clients offers her a sabotage job…
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Book Review – Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines
Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse), by Jim C. Hines, takes a futuristic zombie-esque apocalypse and wonders – what happens if someone comes along and fixes it? Humanity was turned into mindless, shambling monsters, but the Krakau (a squidlike alien race) decides to help fix us. Eh, more or less. The story follows a human…