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Title: Gideon's Wall by Greg Kurzawa ISBN: 0-9723456-0-4 Publisher: Riptide Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A captivating fantasy adventure
Comment: Gideon's Wall is a captivating fantasy adventure by Greg Kurzawa which is set forty years after the demise of a great empire. As an age of fear ends, a group of truth-seekers set out to delve the ruins and learn what terrible enemy brought about such utter devastation upon human civilization. Gideon's Wall is a captivating and recommended fantasy novel of post-holocaust rebuilding in the wake of despair and a haunting quest for knowledge.
Rating: 4
Summary: Barren but Beautiful
Comment: This is a really lovely, sparse, intelligent work of fantasy well worth a read for anyone who is tired of 10,000 page 15-part series of vaguely Tolkienish crap. The prose is clean, the exposition is minimal, the narrative is human and elemental. In the end, it's not a wildly original story against the broader backdrop of human experience, but that is what makes it original as a work of speculative fiction: it is more in tune, fantasy elements and all, with how history unfolds over the longue duree, and with the way that individual human stories get tangled up in the sadness of endings.
Rating: 4
Summary: I want more!
Comment: Gideon's Wall left me with a hunger for a stack of books just like it. It's been far too long since a story has taken me in as such. No necklines and sighs, no kidstuff, no rambling, no re-told D&D sessions, no kidding!
Falling closer to the line of a speculative-fiction/fantasy hybrid, the creative voice that resonates throughout is a believable one.
It has a good flow and I can honestly say I cared about the main characters--unfortunately very rare for me. Even though the book is fairly clear throughout concerning their fate, I found the ending to be very 'European' and I didn't want to deal with it.
But I'll be all right.
All in all, four out of five thumbs up.
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Title: The Etched City by K. J. Bishop ISBN: 189481522X Publisher: Prime Books Inc. Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Veniss Underground by Jeff Vandermeer ISBN: 1894815645 Publisher: Prime Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Light Ages by Ian R. MacLeod ISBN: 0441010555 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Knight (The Wizard Knight, Book 1) by Gene Wolfe ISBN: 0765309890 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 03 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases by Jeff Vandermeer, Tim Lebbon, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Michael Moorcock, Kage Baker, Mark Roberts, Stepan Chapman ISBN: 1892389541 Publisher: Nightshade Book Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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