The Martians - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Martians [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Kim Stanley Robinson, related to the Mars Trilogy series. It had been almost a decade since I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy when I finally picked up the following book The Martians. It contains a quote from Ray Bradbury’s Martian […]

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Dying Inside - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Dying Inside [Amazon (Alt) (Alt), Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Robert Silverberg Silverberg’s speaker-protagonist David Selig is a freak telepath who has concealed his talent for his whole life and is now losing it, i.e. “dying inside.” The book is framed as a memoir; it includes biographical reflection along […]

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In the Green Star's Glow - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews In the Green Star’s Glow [Amazon, Abebooks, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Lin Carter, DAW cover and interior illo by Michael Whelan, fifth book in the Green Star saga. The finale of Lin Carter’s Green Star fantasy kept its heroes sequestered in various hardships until the last moment, when […]

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As the Green Star Rises - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews As the Green Star Rises [Amazon, Abebooks, Local Library] by Lin Carter, DAW cover and illo by Roy Krenkel, illo Michael Kaluta, part of the Green Star series. The fourth Green Star book was much like the third, continuing the plots begun in the sky city and the forest […]

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