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The ones to stay far, far away from

Seven Touches of Music – Živković

Zoran Živković finds the meaning of life seven times in this collection of ‘speculation fiction.’ Too bad it was not seven multiplied by six times. Billed in the marketing material as a ‘story suite,’ Seven Touches of Music is a … Continue reading

Posted in 2008, NO | Leave a comment

Flashing Swords #1 – Carter (Ed)

Confession: I hadn’t read a single one of the Flashing Swords anthologies edited by Lin Carter until this one. I am now proud to say I own all five books, three of them in dust-jacketed hardcover. However, my first foray … Continue reading

Posted in 2007, NO | 14 Comments

Verse, or Worse – Del Rosso

‘If it don’t rhyme, it ain’t poetry’ should have told me in glaring neon lights not to buy or read this collection of verse. Sadly, I knew in advance author Mario Del Rosso’s stance on poetry as I long attended a … Continue reading

Posted in 2007, NO | 1 Comment