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Author Erik Quisling Shares His Thoughts On Writing -
ngoldman (6,396)      ngoldman    Today, Norm Goldman, Editor and Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Erik Quisling, author of Fables from the Mud which is about to be released. Erik previously authored Straight Whisky: A Living History ( added 165 days 3 hours ago.) |
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Review: Paula Buermele's The Dream Catcher Tour -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Title: The Dream Catcher Tour Author: Paula Buermele ISBN: 1-4327-0353-6 Paula Buermele's The Dream Catcher Tour provides her readers with a peek into the lives of forty-seven women who together embark on a bus tour of the Great Lakes with Northern Experience Tours. What ensues... ( added 169 days 3 hours ago.) |
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The Three Greatest-Ever Works of Science Fiction? -
 - Robert Gibson (187)   Robert Gibson In any literary or artistic field it may seem ridiculous to choose the three greatest works of all time. Yet the attempt can yield results which are worth noting even if they do not convince others. My choice for the three top SF works are: A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay (1920).... ( added 175 days 18 hours ago.) |
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Getting Away from it All: Transportation in Science Fiction -
Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Nothing can beat the sense of freedom experienced vicariously by the reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom tales when the hero runs out his flier and, stretching out on it, opens the throttle to go soaring into the thin air of ancient Mars. When I feel that strange urge for solitude... ( added 175 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Help for the Science Fiction Addict - Try the History of Earth -
Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson In between favourite authors, when you have finished with one and are feeling bereft and haven't yet latched onto another, you might find it useful to compare notes with someone who has been in the same predicament. It helps that we are actually living on a fantastic planet with its own... ( added 190 days 4 hours ago.) |
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How Much Can You Cram Into a Science Fiction Story? -
Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Despite, or rather because of, being "the literature of ideas", SF is also obliged to be "the literature of comfort", bringing an extra dose of cosiness to the reader in order to compensate for the vertigo of huge and fantastic events or alien settings. By "cosiness" I am referring to the... ( added 192 days ago.) |
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Empires and the SF Imagination: science fiction and the imperial theme -
Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson The word empire is a popular magnet for prospective readers or game-players, however unpopular it might be in real political life. Probably the most familiar example in SF is the Galactic Empire whose last two centuries of decline and fall is portrayed in Asimovs Foundation series. In his... ( added 197 days 22 hours ago.) |
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Science Fiction Future Histories - Criteria for Success -
Robert Gibson (187) Robert Gibson Introduction : Within the field of science fiction, fans can get especially addicted to the sub-genre "Future History", a series of interconnected stories set in a common background that develops over time. For any story to be enjoyable, we all know how vital interesting characters and... ( added 202 days 20 hours ago.) |
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On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles -
Satis Shroff (655)  Satis Shroff Dr. Johann Faust, the man who sold his soul to the Devil. A mythical figure? Certainly not. I went to the pretty town of Staufen via Bad Krözingen from Freiburg. From the distance you can see the ruins of a castle looming above the vineyards on a hill. In the town below is a Gasthaus called Zum... ( added 211 days 7 hours ago.) |
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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon -
Kenneth McCormick (14) Some mighty strange things have happened in this country. Some of them have become legends. The Mad Gasser of Mattoon is one of these incidents. You may have heard about it, but don't recognize it, because it has been called by many other names, such as The Mad Gasser of Roanoke, The Anesthetic... ( added 244 days 22 hours ago.) |
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A Conversation With Charles Jacobs, Author of The Writer Within You -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Charles Jacobs author of The Writer Within You: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing and Publishing In Your Retirement Years. Charles is an award winning journalist who has been honored with... ( added 252 days 1 hour ago.) |
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Why We Read What We Read: A Delighfully Opinionated Journey Through Contemporary Bestsellers -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Authors: Lisa Adams and John Heath ISBN: 10: 140221054X: 13:9781402210549 In Why We Read What We Read: A Delighfully Opinionated Journey Through Contemporary Bestsellers, Lisa Adams and John Heath set out to explore the current state of the American psyche by closely examining the... ( added 252 days 1 hour ago.) |
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A Dog's Death: a short story -
Shahzada Sultan (157) It was his very first day (to be precise, his very first night) in the mohallah (Urdu word for neighbourhood); This young dog with taut and tender skin, looked quite handsome. His bright brown skin with equally bright brown yet very fine cover of down looked hairless; only a close look would... ( added 278 days 18 hours ago.) |
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A Conversation With JV Love Author of The End of Sorrow: A Novel of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII. -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Author: JV Love ISBN: 10: 1595941657: ISBN: 13:9781595941657 Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, JV Love author of The End of Sorrow: A Novel of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII. ( added 281 days 1 hour ago.) |
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An Author Who Tells All With Pertaining To His Sessions With His Psychiatrist -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Author: Louis Panesi ISBN: 9780979216602 Writing a story about your personal experiences with your Psychiatrist and sharing your family secrets with the world takes a great deal of courage. And that is exactly what Louis Panesi did when he published A Father’s Abuse…A Doctor’s Love: The... ( added 281 days 19 hours ago.) |
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Harry Potter, Tolkien, and the Roots of Fantasy -
Adam Smith (135)  The media circus around the release of the last Harry Potter novel is finally beginning to die down, but that does little to disguise the fact that the fantasy genre is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Hundreds of millions were spent to bring Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings , Rowling’s... ( added 281 days 21 hours ago.) |
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Jacqueline Randolph's Latest Novel, Deception's Legacy Reviewed -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Author: Jacqueline G. Randolph ISBN: 1596821027 Two principle historical settings, the Spanish Inquisition and a nuclear accident that occurred in Spain in 1966 provide the impetus for a compelling novel in Jacqueline G. Randolph’s third book in her Deception Series. ( added 281 days 22 hours ago.) |
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The Real Magic of Harry Potter -
Ken McCreless (673)   Ken McCreless As I'm sure you already know, the final Harry Potter book has been, or momentarily will be, released. Here are a few thoughts as to why he is so popular. Imagination. The books and movies in the Harry Potter series are loaded with it. Author J.K. Rowling has opened up the minds of the... ( added 300 days 21 hours ago.) |
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What's The Big Deal over Harry Potter? -
Jo Walker (145) I have followed a few of the Harry Potter movies, and only read one of the books. Besides, I really didn't want to stand in the long lines to get the others:). From what I have heard and what I can see, with the youth today, Harry Potter, enables then to escape from the everyday blahs. The actor... ( added 301 days 22 hours ago.) |
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What's Special about Harry Potter? -
Jim Dickens (191)  Jim Dickens It may be 45 years ago or so but I remember! I remember being different. I remember the bullies and the tormentors. I remember the awkwardness and discomfort that seemed to be everpresent. I remember the pain of middle school (we called it junior high) and then later the pain of high school. I... ( added 302 days 13 hours ago.) |
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Chivalry - The Roots of the Code of the Medieval Knight -
Will Kalif (9,800)  Will Kalif Chivalry has come to be very watered down in modern day times. For the most part we think of chivalry as the way a man behaves toward, and around, women. And while this does characterize chivalry it is actually a very small component of what chivalry was. Chivalry was an all encompassing guide... ( added 329 days ago.) |
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What Happened To the Creatures That Didn’t Make It Onto Noah’s Ark? – Book Review -
Will Kalif (9,800) Will Kalif This is a book review of a new novel called The Bestiary. It is a fantasy tale about the pursuit of a secret book called The Caravan Bestiary, which catalogued the mythical creatures that were denied access to Noah’s Ark. The movie Evan Almighty has spurred a lot of interest in the story of... ( added 332 days ago.) |
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A Guide to the 5 Most Influential Women of Epic Fantasy -
Will Kalif (9,800) Will Kalif Epic Fantasy is a very wide genre and it encompasses a lot of work that has been defined in a lot of different ways from fantasy to childrens fantasy to high fantasy. Women writers have been breaking new ground and exploring new ideas and concepts in this genre since its inception. Here are some... ( added 337 days 22 hours ago.) |
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Blood Ritual: the Ark and the Shroud -
Philip Gardiner (401) In my new book and DVD, The Ark, The Shroud and Mary I set about revealing the inner wisdom traditions we know as the esoteric. This inner wisdom is at the heart of the world’s religions and often due to oppression by the Orthodox Church this mystical element of our psyche has been forced... ( added 1 year 17 days ago.) |
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Review: Kerry LePage's Some Day Never Comes -
ngoldman (6,396) ngoldman Author: Kerry LePage ISBN: 978-1-4343-2855-0 When Kerry LePage looked back on his life that has spanned fifty plus years, he sincerely felt he had something to pass unto anyone who would listen to him. What's more, he believed that now was the right time to do it or as my... ( added 1 year 27 days ago.) |
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