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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Liz Braswell
The delights of ‘Dungeon Crawler Carl’ and other adventures that conjure worlds too big for one volume. If summer brings the sunny promise of more reading leisure time, what could be better than a whole series of books? I’ve picked out three in various stages of completion: choose your own level of commitment and where to jump in. In the comically cosmic adventure series that kicks off with Matt Dinniman’s ”Dungeon Crawler Carl” (2020), the end of the world as we know it is the start of the story.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Liz Braswell
The first rule of time travel is that you can only travel within your own lifetime. The second rule of time travel is that you can only stay for 90 seconds. And “The Third Rule of Time Travel,” according to the author Philip Fracassi, is that you can only observe—you have no ability to change events. Which (along with comparisons to the television show “Sliders”) raises the philosophical question of whether time travel differs greatly from memory.
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Oct 25, 2024 |
wsj.com | Liz Braswell
As the days shorten to shadows of their former selves, a reader’s mind turns to things that lurk in the darkness. “Revelations in Black” has plenty. This is a collection for the horror traditionalist, someone who loves old-fashioned stories about ghosts and ghoulies and the unexplained. Carl Richard Jacobi (1908-1997) is an often-forgotten member of the pulp-writing scene from the 1930s and ’40s who wrote alongside more familiar names like August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft.
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Sep 13, 2024 |
wsj.com | Liz Braswell
Fans of science fiction already know that James S.A. Corey, the author of the Hugo-winning “Expanse” series—made into a television show of the same name during the last decade—is actually two authors, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.
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Aug 2, 2024 |
wsj.com | Liz Braswell
It’s been 1,500 years since King Arthur supposedly lived and vanquished his enemies; one would think that by now every possible version of that narrative has been told. “The Bright Sword,” an epic fantasy from Lev Grossman, the author of “The Magicians” and its sequels, adds an unusual spin—Arthur is gone (either dead or disappeared). Every word of his wonderful novel, however, is a tip of the hat to works that came before.
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