So, once upon a time there was this middle-aged writer/author/editor kind of schmuck who had just received his Kindle. After fiddle farting around a bit and converting some stories of his own into MOBI form just so he could see how the devil device worked, he thought to himself, “I wonder how this ‘instant download’ [...]

Today I’m going to ruminate on one of the longest running fantasy mangas.  The title of the work is Berserk and I doubt there’s anyone who has even a moderate level of involvement with the medium who wouldn’t recognize the name instantly. If I were trying to be pithy and smart ass like the majority [...]

There’s no better cure for a bad case of Weber than a good dose of Czerneda. Rift in the Sky is the concluding third book of Julie Czerneda’s Stratification trilogy which is the second trilogy in her Clan Chronicles series (the first trilogy being The Trade Pact Cycle, a noteworthy collection of novels that not-so-coincidentally [...]

Okay, we all know that there are no new ideas in fiction, right? Especially when it comes to manga.  The Japanese are absolute masters of running over the same opossum to the point that they’ll vary the positions of the entry and exit of the tire treads by millimeters just to see what changes on [...]