Mastodawn

He smiles at me. “But seriously, Sam, this is some wild shit.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/03/04/he-smiles-at-me-but-seriously-sam-this-is-some-wild-shit/ #30MinuteScienceFictionFantasyShortReads #atMe #book #HughHowey #LiteratureFiction #quote #ScienceFictionFantasy #seriously #smiles #some #wildShit

John Griogair Bell Feb 25

“what happens when the most powerful wizard in the world is also the laziest wizard in the world.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/25/what-happens-when-the-most-powerful-wizard-in-the-world-is-also-the-laziest-wizard-in-the-world/ #book #fantasy #FantasyAnthologies #FantasyAnthologiesShortStories #fiction #inTheWorld #laziestWizard #LiteratureFiction #mostPowerful #quote #TanyaHuff #whatHappens #wizard

John Griogair Bell Dec 10

“While the happenings around me are always the same, sometimes there is a surprise or two, which leaves me to believe that something is watching me, toying with me, cynically monitoring my cyclical existence.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/10/while-the-happenings-around-me-are-always-the-same-sometimes-there-is-a-surprise-or-two-which-leaves-me-to-believe-that-something-is-watching-me-toying-with-me-cynically-monitoring-my-cyclical-e/

#alwaysTheSame #aroundMe #believe #book #cyclicalExistence #cynicallyMonitoring #fantasy #fiction #happenings #HarmonCooper #JeuxVidéoRomansNouvellesEtc #JoueursDeJeuxVidéoRomansNouvellesEtc #leavesMe #LiteratureFiction #orTwo #quote #ScienceFiction #somethingIsWatchingMe #sometimes #surprise #TheFeedbackLoop #toyingWithMe #videoGamers #VideoGamersFiction #VideoGames #VideoGamesFiction

John Griogair Bell Dec 5

Hiero’s Journey

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/05/hieros-journey/

#book #FantasyFiction #Heiro #LiteratureFiction #postApocalypticScienceFiction #review #ScienceFiction #SterlingELanier #TPolyphilus

John Griogair Bell Oct 31

Engine City

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/31/engine-city/

#AlienInvasionScienceFiction #book #EnginesOfLight #fiction #FirstContactScienceFiction #HumanAlienEncounters #HumanAlienEncountersFiction #KenMacLeod #LifeOnOtherPlanets #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #LiteratureFiction #RencontresAvecLesExtraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #review #ScienceFiction #TPolyphilus #VieExtraterrestreRomansNouvellesEtc

John Griogair Bell Oct 17

Cosmonaut Keep

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/17/cosmonaut-keep/

#AlienInvasionScienceFiction #book #ComputerProgrammers #ComputerProgrammersFiction #EnginesOfLight #fiction #FirstContactScienceFiction #HumanAlienEncounters #HumanAlienEncountersFiction #KenMacLeod #LifeOnOtherPlanets #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #literaryFiction #LiteratureFiction #ProgrammeursRomansNouvellesEtc #RencontresAvecLesExtraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #review #ScienceFiction #TPolyphilus #VieExtraterrestreRomansNouvellesEtc

John Griogair Bell Oct 10

Triton

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/10/triton/

#book #fiction #GuerreSpatialeRomansNouvellesEtc #LiteratureFiction #PropheciesFiction #PropheTiesRomansNouvellesEtc #review #romans #SamuelRDelany #ScienceFiction #SpaceWarfareFiction #TPolyphilus #TritonSatelliteFiction #TritonSatelliteRomansNouvellesEtc #UtopiasFiction #UtopiesRomansNouvellesEtc

John Griogair Bell Sep 19, 2025

Anackire

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/09/19/anackire/

#book #DeEssesRomansNouvellesEtc #fantasy #FantasyFiction #FathersAndDaughters #FathersAndDaughtersFiction #fiction #goddesses #GoddessesFiction #goodAndEvil #GoodAndEvilFiction #GuerresEtBataillesImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtc #ImaginaryWarsAndBattles #ImaginaryWarsAndBattlesFiction #LiteratureFiction #PeResEtFillesRomansNouvellesEtc #review #ScienceFiction #TPolyphilus #TanithLee #WarsOfVis

John Griogair Bell Jul 18, 2025

Gods of Mars

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/18/gods-of-mars/

#AdeptusMechanicus #book #ForgeOfMars #GrahamMcNeill #LiteratureFiction #review #ScienceFiction #TPolyphilus #Warhammer40000 #Warhammer40k #WH40k

John Griogair Bell Aug 30, 2024

Faust the Theologian

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/08/30/faust-the-theologian/

Faust the Theologian - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Faust the Theologian [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Jaroslav Pelikan This book is really just a long essay on the theological characterization in Goethe’s Faust. It’s not what I’d call an exciting read. Author Jaroslav Pelikan, a noted historian of religion, avers to have read Faust annually for his entire adult life, and […]

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