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REVIEW: Can War Be Eliminated? by Christopher Coker
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Can War Be Eliminated? is a slim volume – an essay bound up in book form, really – and that very much dictates the tack it takes to answer its provocative titular question. It is a solid overview of what war is from an evolutionary, cultural, sociological, technological, and political perspective. However, its scope is…
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REVIEW: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
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I drank so much coffee while reading this book and writing this review – which, if anything, speaks to its supreme ability to make me yearn not just to return to the joys of cafes, but specifically to one run by an orc and her motely crew of companions. It is genuinely one of…
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REVIEW: A Light in the Sky by Shina Reynolds
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It has been years since I have read YA fantasy. I seem to remember clocking out around the time Holly Black’s Wicked King was released, and staying away since. Who can succinctly say why we enter reading slumps? Perhaps the most universal explanation is a host of internal and external factors clogging one’s mind. And when…
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REVIEW: The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories by Nina Allan
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This review contains mild spoilers for the stories Amethyst, Heroes, A Thread of Truth, and Marielena in this collection. Short story collections serve many purposes. They are catalogues of an author’s smaller opuses, or a snapshot of one era in their careers. The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories is a map, one in which the author as cartographer…