Book Review: Fight. Magic. Items
https://countzeroor.com/2025/08/02/book-review-fight-magic-items/
It’s important to say from the jump what Fight. Magic. Items is not. It’s not The JRPG Book. It’s not trying to be a comprehensive overview of the history of JRPGs. It’s not even really a general overview of the global history of the JRPG. Instead, it provides a sort of overview of the evolution…
Book Review: The Ministry Of Time
https://countzeroor.com/2025/03/09/book-review-the-ministry-of-time/
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The Ministry Of Time, by Kaliane Bradley is, of the recent Sword & Laser picks, the most recent one I’ve finished as of this writing. It was an interesting read, but tonally it’s all over the place. The Ministry of Time is, ostensibly, a time travel romance story – at least that’s how it was […]
Book Review: The Ghibliotheque Guide to Anime
https://countzeroor.com/2025/02/22/book-review-the-ghibliotheque-guide-to-anime/
It’s been a while since I read a nonfiction book about anime. A couple of years ago, I read Anime: A History by Johnathan Clements and found it enjoyable (though admittedly, I never got around to doing a prose review here—just a video review). Well, I’ve ended up coming across another overview book on Anime—this […]
Book Review: Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground
https://countzeroor.com/2024/12/08/book-review-monsters-aliens-and-holes-in-the-ground/
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If you know anything about me at all, I have a passion for the history of tabletop roleplaying. One of the books that helped stoke my interest was the book Heroic Worlds, which I read when I was in middle school. That book was a high level overview of the roleplaying game books that were […]
Book Review: The Spear Cuts Through Water
https://countzeroor.com/2024/11/13/book-review-the-spear-cuts-through-water/
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Book (Video) Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
https://countzeroor.com/2024/09/11/book-video-review-emily-wildes-encyclopaedia-of-faeries/
Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
https://countzeroor.com/2024/08/18/book-review-emily-wildes-encyclopaedia-of-faeries/
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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett puts a bit of weirdness into the urban fantasy genre. It’s not urban – not even close – it’s a very pastoral story. It’s not contemporary, being set in the 1800s. However, it’s definitely not heroic fantasy or horror, and certainly fits more into some elements of […]
Book Review: Sword of Kaigen
https://countzeroor.com/2024/08/07/book-review-sword-of-kaigen/
Book Review: Iron Widow
https://countzeroor.com/2024/05/18/book-review-iron-widow/
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When Iron Widow came up on the list of the list of rejected Hugo Award nominees in the controversy over the Chengdu Worldcon, I figured that I should bump the book further up my reading list (it was already there, it was just further in). Then it became a Sword & Laser book club pick, […]
Book (Vlog) Review: System Collapse
https://countzeroor.com/2024/01/31/book-vlog-review-system-collapse/
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