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I almost wish that The War Revealed came out this month.  That way, I could have voted for it for the Dragon Awards this year. I m going to have to settle for The Lost War (reviewed yesterday).Newman and Goldenrod survived landing in a monster-infested wilderness. Their group of historical reenactors no longer fears starvation. But can they control the magic powers people are developing? Discover how they were transported there? And stay safe from the orcs and dragons?As noted in yesterday s review, this series is amazing.In the first book, we saw the emergence of magic just beginning to settle in among the folks of the SCA troop transported to a fantasy world where magic is common and so are orcs. This book goes far deeper into the mechanics of magic. I m trying to recall when the last time I saw magic being executed this practically. In the previous novel, a lot of time was spent on logistics and how things work. This novel centered around how magic worked. There s Chekov s gun, and then there s Checkov s SAW. There were even some uses of potential energy that read a little bit like old-school philosophy (IE: Ancient Philosophy). And some of it boils down to Magic is weird. But yeah, there s a lot of how things get done, only with magic. Call it hard fantasy if you must be picky, but it s interesting and readable for well over 30% of the book. Continue reading You may not have heard, but Dragon Con is closed this year, due to a virus that rhymes with Sharona.However, the Dragon awards? That s still up and ongoing.I really do enjoy Dragon season. I can talk about books for months on end. I technically don t need an excuse, but it helps to make me look a little less deranged. Especially when I talk about the same ones over and over again. And this year, we have thoughts about what should go on the ballot. Quite a few, really.  Best Sci Fi Overlook by Jon Mollison. I enjoyed that one so much, I may have underplayed my review. It s in the link if you need a refresher over  how good that was.The short version is that we have a superhero who s power is being the little man who wasn t there. And he s facing an enemy straight out of Dean Koontz. They are refreshingly evil pure evil, not the watered down We need to understand them crap we ve gotten churned out by writing courses. Continue reading Good morning, campers.  Today, here at Catholic Geeks, we re going to play Let s Kick The Woke Hornets Nest And See How Much The Internet Loses Its S**t.Step right up, folks.I was at home, minding my own business, when my husband pointed out a Vanity Fair article on the new Dune movies.  I knew about the remake (or reimagining, whatever they want to call it), and was interested to see what they were doing.Mind you, I didn t hold out much hope that any of it would be any good.  Let s face it, between the 1984 flick and the SciFi channel miniseries (back before they changed it to Syfy, the idiots) both sucked for different reasons: the old version has beautiful, perfect casting (Francesca Annis as Jessica; I rest my case)Lady Jessicabut horrible visuals and a butchered script; and the miniseries has (at least up to a certain point), a more accurate script, but utterly horrific casting (Jessica as a whiny little dirty-blonde twit?  Seriously?).In my opinion, if you want to experience Frank Herbert s Dune, just read the book.  The first book.  The others don t exist.But, here they are, making another movie.  Or, apparently, two movies.  So I m waiting for the other shoe to drop.I m not going to fisk the article, because I was mostly pleasantly surprised by the content: the casting looks promising, the sets and costumes look great, and the director (Denis Villenueve) at least claims to be a big fan of Herbert, so the odds of him butchering the story are slightly lower than if, say, JJ Abrams got hold of it.The problem?  One supposedly-minor supporting character: Dr. Kynes.The poor man got gender-swapped, and it s a much bigger problem than just a bad casting switch. Continue reading Psych is a quick-witted, fast talking dramedy following the adventures of Shawn Spencer, the fake psychic who consults with the Santa Barbara Police Department; with the aid of his reluctant friend, Burton Guster, a pharmaceutical salesman, they ‘investigate, catch bad guys, and eat pie.’ Of course, they start with the pie – always.

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