Book #157 of 2019: Wanderers by Chuck Wendig I expected this novel about a pandemic of sleepwalking to resemble Stephen King’s apocalyptic classic The Stand (or ideally Emily St. John Mandel’s elegiac Station Eleven), but it plays out more like a Michael Crichton medical thriller instead. And honestly, that’s just a difficult framework to sustain …
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Book Review: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
Book #31 of 2018: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View edited by Elizabeth Schaefer In honor of the 40th anniversary of the first Star Wars movie, this book presents 40 short stories retelling the events of that film from the perspective of various minor characters — from Jawas to stormtroopers to the thing …
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Book Review: Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
Book #147 of 2017: Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig (Aftermath #1) Star Wars: Aftermath was one of the first novels published in that franchise after the entire Star Wars Expanded Universe was reclassified as noncanonical ‘legends’ in 2014. (In other words, earlier Star Wars spinoff literature is no longer considered to have happened in …
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