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by Ben Counter
ISBN: 1844160017
Paperback: 320 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No writing, no highlighting. This is a used copy with reading/ shelf wear.
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Daemon World - Great 40k read !
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-07-10
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
WHile still pretty new to the genre I found myself well absorbed by this and other great 40k reads from BL. Daemon World is complex, lots of very well developed characters, smooth transitions and action. The heros in the story attain lofty power and abilities that reminded of the invincibility of Matrix's Neo, which takes action to whole new level (for me anyway). The main characters are simply too cool with their personalities and actions making for a very memorable experience. With sci-fi material like this and "Storm of Iron" why not movie yet :( ?
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Interesting.
Rating  (3)
Date: 2004-09-26
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you participate in the tabletop gaming hobby that this novel is based on, you should enjoy this. If you begin reading this book with the same degree of interest in how a Chaos world functions as I did, then hopefully, you will travel through each description with a similar level of patience, objectivity, and warranted awe.
Ben Counter's descriptive style is on par with the best writers Games Workshop/The Black Library have to offer. He was able to develop different characters that drove parallel plotlines and expertly tied them together as the story came to its conclusion. The surreal battle sequences are described with the masterful strokes of a painter, revealing vivid images within the mind's eye. Some of the battle sequences bring to mind a hypothetical synergy of 'Battle of the Pelennor Fields' in the Return of the King movie, drybrushed by Pinhead from 'Hellraiser'. It is epic in scale and for those of you who have sympathetic leanings toward the 40k concept of 'Chaos', you will understand when I say that many passages in the book are equally repulsive/seductive.
Other novels by Ben Counter, include "Grey Knights" or "The Bleeding Chalice". Both are equally as memsmerizing.
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WOW! AN EPIC WORLD DESTROYER!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-12-20
4 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Man, Ben Counter is one visual masterpiece monster writer. This has got to be one of the all-time eye opening, jaw-dropping novels of the year.
Not only was I immensely drawn into the book by it's deliciously and devilishly looking cover and interesting synopsis, but catapulted into a universe and world of monstrous proportions.
This is some story. If you think this is a bad read - then you are a plain idiot, hands down! Ben Counter pulls no punches, takes no prisoners in this massive world building, legendary novel. It reads so beautifully, but after seeing the movie - RETURN OF THE KING - the battles there almost seemed tame in comparison to this one.
Now, I would love to see the battle for the citidal in this book! Rivers and lakes of blood with daemons and mutants out the ass to kill - now that would truly be a sight from hell.
Ben Counter writes and drives a storyline on like a Mack truck through your living room. Not only is he visual, but the story itself unfolds and ends so unexpectantly, it will surely keep you up at night, reading, shaking, and sweating.
A must read for sci-fi/fantasy fans. Ben Counter, you have a new fan.
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Why, why, why?
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-07-30
Why do I constantly find myself at odds with reviewers of Warhammer 40K novels? The only review of this book as of this date is extemely negative. I really enjoyed this book, especially the Princess Charybdia and her twistedly evil city of pleasures. I've never really expected WH novels to be great Hugo-prize winning novels of Sci-Fi---they're just a lot of fun to read and they put you into a fantastic gloomy surreal mood. Give this novel a chance. I really liked it.
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by Teresa Edgerton
ISBN: 0441294278
Paperback
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No writing, no highlighting. Book in very good condition with minimal reading wear.
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Great fun!
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-03-17
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's so sad that this book is no longer in print, and that only seven people have reviewed it. That means there are A LOT of people out there who have never been introduced to the wonder that is Teresa Edgerton's Lord Skelbrooke!
I don't know how I first heard about these books- I probably saw them on someone's Amazon Listmania list, and then requested them off a bookswap service. But once I started reading Goblin Moon, I was sucked right in.
Is it epic fantasy? Not at all. Is the plot twisting and turning and totally compex? Nope. What it is is more of an adventure story than anything else, coupled with romance, science, hilarity and chaos. It is so ovious while reading this book that Edgerton enjoyed writing it. The characters come to life full-blooded, they enjoy living within their pages so very much, that it is impossible to read it and not enjoy their lives as well. Francis Skelbrooke steals every scene in which he appears, and Sera, too, is a heroine I'd love to have as a friend any day.
I highly recommend this book, and its sequel, The Gnome's Engine. Both are superb, and even if I came late to the game, I'm going to be cheering Edgerton on for a long time.
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While in the ER I read this amazing book.
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-02-01
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
While in the ER I was given this book to read so my screaming would not upset the other patients. Teresa Edgertons leading characters Lord Francis Skelbrooke and Seramarius Vorder were so familiar to me as people we would want to know that I forgot for awhile that I had no morphine for my broken limp. Ms. Edgertons style is easy and entrancing. The chapters move in sequence quickly and you find yourself thinking of the dwarfs, evil duchess and bookshop owners as people you have already known. This is a author who writes in such a mesmerizing fashion that she makes one wish Goblin Moon was an ongoing series! Thank you so much Ms. Edgerton...
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No Goblins but Good Fun Anyway
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-03-18
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I picked this up in a used bookstore and thought it was ok to start off, but by the end I was hunting through Amazon to see what else they had by the author. This isn't deep literature, but it's quite good fun and moves along nicely. A very interesting mix of Captain Blood/3 Musketeers/ Zorro - 17th C ish swashbuckling and faerie. I especially liked the twist on the bad would-be fairy godmother element. The society is nicely realised with some excellent touches and the characters are likeable. Though the goblin's in the title never really played a role, despite the cover art. Trolls and Faeries and Dwarves all part of society but no goblin action. It's terrible shame most of her work is out-of-print. But I'll certainly try her latest novel! And see what I can pick up otherwise.
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Fantasy and the Age of Reason - Completely Compatible
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-11-29
11 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
Theresa Edgerton, I will state right now, is one of my absolutely favourite fantasy authors in the genre today. Within the space of a few hundred pages, she transports us to a world both foreign and familiar, introduces a cast Dickens would envy, and completes a novel that *might* relinquish the reader's attention given the space of a month. While publishers are constantly "upping" the cost and the length (and the dullness) of their new lines, Theresa Edgerton is an excellent foil - slashing through the cliche bilge and shining through the benighted press. Her stories have the added quality of "rereadableness" - for they rest on limited omniscience rather than surprise.In "Goblin Moon," the first book in a duology, Ms. Edgerton creates a world based on eighteenth century Europe, replete with evil duchesses and dashing masqueraders, husband-catchers and Faust mirrors, Guilds of gnomes and dwarves and covens of goblins. Although readers of her other series (The Green Lion Trilogy, and its sister Trilogy - both set in a para-Celtic land) might find the abrupt change in world surprising, yet the first few chapters will certainly convince them to continue reading. Students of this particular era (who suffered through Locke and have been looking for a means of putting such non-knowledge to use) will find her world-building especially delightful, from the Fates to the sheep-drawn carriages. Beware, though. Ms. Edgerton's novels are notoriously difficult to find, but more than worth the agony of waiting.
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Fantastic!
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-07-02
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Goblin Moon is set in a quasi-Victorian time. There are several different species, such as gnomes, blood-sucking trolls, hobgoblins and, of course, humans. The main heroine, Seramarias Vorder, is an appropriately intelligent and resourceful young woman in a rather false society. However, the hero, the elusive Lord Francis Skelbrooke, steals the show. A perfect gentlemen, laced and powdered to perfection...armed to the teeth and with the deplorable habit of shooting enemies at point blank range. Together, Sera and Lord Skelbrooke must find out exactly what the mysterious and bewitching Duchess and her suave minion Jarl Skogsra are plotting. Full of intrigue, ironic humor, the stylized world of the Victorians, and a touch of romance, Goblin Moon is an enchanting read. It is well worth the time and effort to locate a copy.
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by Peter David
ISBN: 0739414852
Hardcover
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No writing. This is a used copy in a very good condition. The inside appears as new, the dust jacket has moderate reading wear.
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by Chie Shinohara
ISBN: 1421505568
Paperback: 208 pages
Condition: New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No publisher marks, no shelf wear.
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Addicting and getting better and better
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-10-29
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
This 14th volume of the manga series finally cements the relationship between Kail and Yuri. Yuri has now decided to stay in the past and she and Kail finally make love. Yay, I cheer together with her maids and his advisors and generals. Now things will be great for Kail and Yuri, but wait Nakia is up to her schemes again and now she assembles 7 Princesses as candidates for Kail's empress. Plus, she recruits many more women for Kail's harem. Well the plot twists further and I eagerly await the next volume of this epic romantic historical.
I love Yuri, she's not helpless like the typical japanese manga heroine(like Aine of Sensual Phrase), she like Noriko of From Far Away, are able to think for themselves and get to save their men from time to time as well as challenge them too.
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by Michael Pearce
ISBN: 1590580702
Hardcover: 232 pages
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. No publisher marks, no shelf wear. Complimentary Review Copy stamp on the first page.
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Delightful But Where's the War?
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-05-07
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
The first dozen Mamur Zapt books by Michael Pearce all seemed to be stuck around the year 1910. Set in Egypt under British rule, they are wonderful tongue-in-cheek mysteries featuring the head of the British security police in Cairo.
In "The Face in the Cemetery" it is 1914 and World War I has finally arrived. But aside from Gareth Owen, the Mamur Zapt, having responsibility for the internment of German citizens, the war seems far from Egypt.
The Mamur Zapt stories parallel Elizabeth Peters' wonderful Amelia Peabody books. But in those stories, when the war arrives, the younger generation are very involved, some in the trenches, others fighting enemy agents and their plots to expel the British. Gareth Owen's 1914 Cairo ought to filled with enemy spies, but you wouldn't know it from this book. What it does take up is the very real difficulty of trying to put together a relationship across ethnic and cultural lines.
The puzzle behind 200 missing rifles is intriguing, and this book is as good as any other in the series.
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War Time Intrigue.
Rating (3)
Date: 2005-04-15
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is number 13 in the series featuring the Mamur Zapt, starting with A COLD TOUCH OF ICE, THE SNAKE CATCHER'S DAUGHTER, THE GIRL IN THE NILE, and THE NIGHT OF THE DOG. These mysteries written by an academic in Sudan, Michael Pearce, are simplified Elizabeth Peters sagas with murder and mayhew involved.
In a cat cemetery (where cats are interred after being mummified),the body of a blonde German woman is found with the wrappings of a mummy covering her completely. She is married to an Egyptian and it is WWI where Germans are feared, even the blonde ones.
Owen tells Zeinab that it was the "war" which killed the victim. "It was a marriage built on love but based on fear. As the world pressed in, fear took over. The outside world was too much for them, and the obstacles, difficulties became obsessive, so they turned inwards. In the end they couldn't face the world." My, how things have changed. Of course, this is America and not the Sudan with the camels, tombs and pet cemeteries. Here, we bury the family pet out in the back yard.
It was fascinating, but written for younger readers, I think. He certainly has a full slate of these books for anyone interested in Egypt told in a ficitonal sense, not many facts.
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exciting historical mystery
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-11-01
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
After serving a tour of duty in Egypt, Gareth Owen became the Mamur Zapt, the official who deals with political factions in a land where much of the population comes from other lands. While he is in the province of Minya, he finds the body of a dead woman wrapped up in bandages surrounded by cats that were mummified ages ago. The dead woman was a German who was married to an Egyptian. Owen was supposed to take her to an internment camp based on orders from England that stated that all Germans must be placed in speciously set up camps to prevent their giving any information to the German government.
While in Minya he notices that the ghaffirs (watchmen) at each village are being armed to fight the bandits. When Owen returns to Cairo, he learns that two hundred unaccounted rifles were sent to Minya; in a country where British rule is hated, that is very dangerous. Owen has to find out where the rifles went and how they are linked to the ghaffirs. While he is investigating that, he also tries to learn who killed the German and nearly gets killed for his work ethics.
Egypt at the beginning of World War I is a country that prefers to ignore the actions of the superpowers only caring about how the war will affect them. The protagonist is working harder than ever but wonders if he should enlist in the British Army. His Egyptian lover, the pasha's daughter Zeinab is giving him a hard time about his possible enlistment which puts their relationship on shaky ground. Michael Pearce has written another exciting historical mystery that brings to life a bygone era.
Harriet Klausner
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by Lynn Abbey
ISBN: 0312874901
Hardcover: 352 pages
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Sold with pride and shipped with confirmation for US addresses. This book is in a like new condition with light reading wear, but has an inscription/ writing on the first page. No further imperfections.
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very pleased
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-07-27
My order was received before the estimated arrival time and I saved money because there were no shipping fees! Love Amazon for that!
Thanks!
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Not Free SF Reader
Rating (3)
Date: 2008-02-17
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Around about what you would expect, from one of these anthologies. Although it would seem to be a bit smaller scale than some of the early volumes, and less dark, as far as Sanctuary and various characters go. Story average 3.23, and basically this is a tweener, in the middle of 3 and 3.5, but not good enough in this case to round up to a 4.
Offutt and Grubb the picks of this bunch, I think.
Enemies Of Fortune : Introduction - Lynn Abbey
Enemies Of Fortune : Widowmaker - C. J. Cherryh and Jane Fancher
Enemies Of Fortune : Deadly Ritual - Mickey Zucker Reichert
Enemies Of Fortune : Pr1cks and Afflictions - Dennis L. McKiernan
Enemies Of Fortune : Consequences - Jody Lynn Nye
Enemies Of Fortune : Good Neighbors - Lynn Abbey
Enemies Of Fortune : Gathering Strength - Selina Rosen
Enemies Of Fortune : Dark of the Moon - Andrew Offutt
Enemies Of Fortune : Protection - Robin Wayne Bailey
Enemies Of Fortune : Legacies - Jane Fancher and C. J. Cherryh
Enemies Of Fortune : Malediction - Jeff Grubb
Enemies Of Fortune : The Ghost in the Phoenix - Diana L. Paxson and Ian Grey
Enemies Of Fortune : The Ballad of Shemhaza - Steven Brust
Never good when your strangler ex-wife comes back to town.
3.5 out of 5
Giving up piracy is an option, you know.
3.5 out of 5
Stunted mama's boy.
3 out of 5
Hornets, snakes, whichever.
3 out of 5
Healer choices.
3.5 out of 5
Froggin' drugs.
3 out of 5
Hope she doesn't frog me to death.
3.5 out of 5
Shadowspawn's apprentice's new lover and jewellery are more than they seem.
4 out of 5
Racket's moggie rebound.
3.5 out of 5
Chameleon amnesia.
2.5 out of 5
The Vulgar Unicorn leads to Hell, thanks to a small-codded frog-rooter.
4 out of 5
Spirit separation accident.
2.5 out of 5
Musician not so nice.
3.5 out of 5
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A More Mature Vision
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-22
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Many moons ago a fantasy anthology written by many top authors was conceived and Thieves World was born. The idea was that the City of Sanctuary would be the base with the various characters from the authors inhabiting this place. The idea was that the characters could be borrowed among the authors and you would get various perspectives of each character from different points of view. What the anthology turned into was a wonderful rollicking mess and one of the most important antholgy series to ever have been written for the fantasy world. The final book from the original series was published in 1989.
13 years later and Sanctuary rises again under Lynn Abbey's editorial control. This time it is a more mature version of theives world. The stories are every bit as good as the original, but a bit more polished this time around. Abbey must have learned hard lessons from the first anthology. There is a better focus and the story line is more organized. While the first anthology is going to be hard to match, the second anthology is starting off right.
The second book, "Enemies of Fortune" is very very good. There isn't a bad story or filler here. The book has both light and very dark stories. You feel bad for the various characters and yet laugh at them too. You find both love and gallantry among the denizons as well as honesty among thieves. The stories warn of the dangers of drug use "Good Neighbors" as well as not kidnapping the wrong woman "Protection". My personal favorites are "Ghost in the Pheonix" a light hearted story about possesion and "The Man from Shemhaza" which is anything but lighthearted.
"Enemies of Fortune" shows there are growng clouds for the future, which makes me want to read the next book before it is published. For those of you who have not read the original series, buy them if you can or at least read "Sanctuary", which will provide you a working knowledge betweent the old series and the new version. Highly Recommended.
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A Great Deal of Fun!
Rating (5)
Date: 2004-12-10
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I just picked up this book and have enjoyed it greatly. Thieves' World and the city of Sanctuary are such rich settings, and these authors explore that setting to great effect. I've only read about half the volume thus far, but highly recommend it based on what I have read. You'll enjoy this especially if you enjoy the whole 'shared world' concept (like I do). The stories are solid and the characters well-written. I strongly recommend the stories by Jody Lynn Nye, Robin Wayne Bailey, the 2 by CJ Cherryh & Jane Fancher, and Selina Rosen. And by all means, if you enjoy these stories, check out these authors' other works. Each one has a unique and entertaining style.
Congratulations and a hearty 'thank you' to Lynn Abbey for reviving the wonderful and engaging Thieves' World!
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