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Sci-Fi Pick of the Month – Feed by Mira Grant

October 11th, 2012 No comments

The modern zombie novel is a battle between cliché and originality. Mira Grant’s “Feed” is no exception, relying on our conventional understanding of the shambling zombie horde to drive tension in the story. In Grant’s world, though, humanity…

Sci-Fi Pick: “Inheritance” by Christopher Paolini

July 3rd, 2012 No comments

Over the course of four books—“Eragon,” “Eldest,” “Brisingr,” and “Inheritance—Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle follows a teenager named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, through the mountains and valleys of Alagaësia as they battle…

Sci-Fi eBook pick: THE SHERIFF OF YRNAMEER by Michael Rubens

September 22nd, 2011 No comments

I decided to do my first book review with a bit of light-hearted fun.  Michael Rubens, who is a producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, wrote a book in 2009 called The Sheriff of Yrnameer.  It is a…