Herald of Ruin - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Herald of Ruin [Amazon, Bookshop, DriveThruRPG, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Tim Pratt, cover John Coulthart Tim Pratt’s series of novels within the Arkham Horror fiction line are called “The Sanford Files” after Carl Sanford, the ruling magus of the Order of the Silver Twilight. Herald of Ruin is […]

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"The desire for revenge rises within him, resplendent and gauche, like the phoenix on the hood of a Trans Am." - The Hermetic Library Blog

The desire for revenge rises within him, resplendent and gauche, like the phoenix on the hood of a Trans Am. Jeremy P Bushnell, The Weirdness: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] Consider also: “You and I have been friends for a long time, but that is, without exception, the most batshit insane line of […]

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#BookReview The Great When by Alan Moore.
(Very short review)
The year is 1949, and young Dennis Knuckleyard has got hold of a book that does not belong in his version of London - he needs to get it back to the Great When, where it has come from. I loved the language in this book, the characters, (some are human, some are broader, embodied ideas which live in the Great When) and the pacing. Some violence, mostly implied.
First in a new series.

#FantasyFiction #AlanMoore #MagicFiction #TimeTravel #AmReading #Bookstodon

The Other Wind - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Other Wind [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K. Le Guin, book 6 of The Earthsea Cycle. In her afterword to the 2012 “unified edition” of Earthsea, author Le Guin notes that the six books have been persistently called a “trilogy” and sometimes a “quartet,” while […]

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Red Equinox - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Red Equinox [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Douglas Wynne, book 1 of The SPECTRA Files series Red Equinox is an action novel rooted in Lovecraftian chiliasm. It has substance, pacing, structure, and character complexity comparable to one of Charles Stross’ Laundry novels, but it is both less funny and less scary. […]

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Tales from Earthsea - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Tales from Earthsea [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K Le Guin, part of the Earthsea series. The penultimate book of the Earthsea cycle is a collection of five stories rather than a novel. In principle, it could be a point of entry to the series, since […]

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Tehanu - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Tehanu [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K Le Guin, book 4 of The Earthsea Cycle series. When I finished my reread of The Farthest Shore, it was obvious to me that there needed to be a fourth Earthsea book to continue Tenar’s story and pass it […]

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The Farthest Shore - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Farthest Shore [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Libro.fm (Alt), Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K Le Guin, book 3 in The Earthsea Cycle series. This third Earthsea book exhausts my reread of that series from my childhood, so that I can now continue to the later volumes. Each of these […]

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The Tombs of Atuan - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Tombs of Atuan [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Ursula K. Le Guin, book 2 of The Earthsea Cycle series. Like the first book of the Earthsea series, I had childhood memories of key figures and scenes from The Tombs of Atuan, but much of the story seemed […]

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