A good vs. evil story with an elaborate magic system, set on the background of intriguing political & religious landscape with enough twists and turns to keep you occupied. What else could a fantasy fan want? Brent Weeks brings the first book of his Lightbringer trilogy “into the light” – The Black Prism. He brought it [...]
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Every Light Cast a Shadow…
Posted: 6th January 2012 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science FictionTags: Audible, Audible.com, Books, Fantasy, Literature, novels, personal, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson…
Posted: 26th December 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Mystery, Personal Stories, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, SteampunkTags: Audible.com, Books, Brandon Sanderson, Fantasy, Literature, Mystery, novels, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Steampunk, The Alloy of Law
This review is rather late, but the vast reading list I had during later half of 2011 and the release of Battlefield 3 game caused this delay. I was able to finish The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson during my vacations. Absolutely amazing. The Alloy of Law takes place 3 centuries after The Well [...]
We’re more than animals …
Posted: 2nd July 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, English, General, Literature, Movies, Sci-Fi, Science, Science FictionTags: AI, Apocalypse, Archos, Artificial Intelligence, Asimov, Audible, Audible.com, Book Review, Books, Daniel H. Wilson, evil, Future, general, human, humans, Interview, machine, Man, Mike Chamberlain, novels, personal, Reading, Review, Robopocalypse, Robots, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Steve Spielberg
Remember those classic Sci-Fi stories you used to read as a kid where robots are alive and they have turned evil. Robopocalypse brought those memories back for me! Daniel H. Wilson’s Robopocalypse is man-versus-machine tale – the story of how the robots turn against the humans. The author weaves a modern and plausible tale, which can [...]
Magic is magic … Bramble is bramble …
Posted: 27th June 2011 by JPS Nagi in Authors, Books, English, Fantasy, General, Literature, Sci-Fi, Science FictionTags: Alchemyst, Audible, Audible.com, Books, Bramble, Executioness, Fantasy, general, Jonathan Davis, Katherine Kellgren, Literature, Magic, METAtropolis, novels, Paolo Bacigalupi, rare, Reading, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, SF&F, Tobias Buckell, water
In Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Alchemyst and Tobias Buckell’s The Executioness we meet characters from the world where bramble has taken over fertile farm lands and use of magic is punishable by death. Once a glorious and prosperous world, where magic was practiced freely; now has bramble everywhere. Bramble has strange affinity to magic; it roots [...]