Antony Jones
Books reviewed by Ant (856)
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![Into The LabyrinthWeis and Hickman]()
FantasyOn Abarrach, Xar is attempting to learn the secret of necromancy, but he needs a corpse to test it on. He interrogates the lazar Kleitus about the location of any living Sartan, and Kleitus reveals that Haplo lied to Xar about all the Sartan dying at the hands of the dead; Balthazar and his group re...
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![The Hand of ChaosWeis and Hickman]()
FantasyHaplo takes a submersible back to Draknor to retrieve his ship. He finds Samah there— wet, haggard, and lost. The leader of the Council has opened Death's Gate, allowing the dragon-snakes free access to all the four worlds. Haplo decides he is too tired to physically capture Samah and uses his ship...
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![Serpent MageWeis and Hickman]()
FantasyThe novel picks up just where Fire Sea left off. Alfred jumps into Death's Gate as Haplo's ship passes through it, and finds himself in a stasis room like the one he woke up in; in fact, he believes he's on Arianus. Tired, he decides to put himself back to sleep... Only to find someone in "his" stas...
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![Fire SeaWeis and Hickman]()
FantasyAbarrach, the World of Stone is just that: lava, stone, poisonous fumes, and precious little food that can be grown. The peoples of Abarrach rely on giant rune-inscribed stone pillars called colossi to provide warmth and breathable atmosphere, but the colossi have been failing slowly for many years....
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![Elven StarWeis and Hickman]()
FantasyPryan, the World of Fire, does not orbit a sun— at least, not in the normal manner. It is a giant stone sphere containing four suns (similar to a Dyson Sphere), and it is always daytime. The "ground" is not the ground at all, but rather moss and the leaves of huge, mile-high trees; most people don't...
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![Isaac Asimov's UtopiaRoger MacBride Allen]()
Science FictionUtopia takes place five years into the reign of Alvar Kresh as the governor of Inferno, who is now married to robotisist Fredda Leving. The re-terraforming effort is doing fairly well, but many believe still doomed to failure. The plot centers around a plan created by an Infernal named Dalvo Lentral...
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![Echoes of the well of SoulsJack L Chalker]()
Science FictionNathan Brazil had been the guardian of the Well of Souls, where the Well World's master control lay. But now the universe faced a threat more grave than mere destruction: an unnamed and utterly alien entity had somehow been released from its ancient prison and was bent on the corruption of the Well...
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![2010Arthur C Clarke]()
Science FictionNine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong and what became of Commander Dave Bowman. Without warning...
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![Galactic DreamsHarry Harrison]()
Science FictionA companion volume to the collection Stainless Steel Visions, this volume collects several of Harrison's best stories, such as Space Rats of the CCC; At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein; and Bill, the Gallactic Hero's Happy Holiday. Includes a hilarious new adventure of Bill, the Galactic Hero....
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![Dragon WingWeis and Hickman]()
FantasyArianus, the World of Air, is composed entirely of porous floating islands, aligned in three basic altitudes. In the Low Realm, the dwarves (called "Gegs", an elven word for "insects") live on the continent Drevlin and cheerfully serve the giant Kicksey-winsey, a city-sized machine that is the sourc...
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![The Bicentennial ManIsaac Asimov]()
Science Fiction"Originally written 24th July 2008, expanded 2026" The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories is a collection of eleven Isaac Asimov short stories and a poem, first published by Doubleday in 1976 to coincide with the United States Bicentennial year, and the title is not accidental. Asimov had been commi...
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![The Salmon of DoubtDouglas Adams]()
Science FictionI should start with my hand on the table. Douglas Adams is one of my favourite authors. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of my favourite series. I first read it as a teenager, returned to it through various forms including the radio scripts, the television series, the books (of which I ha...
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![Mostly HarmlessDouglas Adams]()
Science FictionMostly Harmless is a novel by Douglas Adams, published in 1992, and the fifth book of what Adams himself liked to call a four-part trilogy: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . The title derives from a joke early in the series. When Arthur Dent discovers that the entry for Earth in The Hitchhiker'...
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![The LiberatorsNathan Elliot]()
Science FictionHood and his army of freedom fighters are ready to start their counter attack against the K'Thraa invaders of Earth. By sabotaging a huge mirror which the aliens have placed in space to raise the temperature on the planet, hood is able to plunge Earth into a mini ice age overnight. Seriously weakene...
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![Earth invadedNathan Elliot]()
Science FictionThe Alien Invasion was unexpected and devastating, with their protective force-shields, the K'Thraa stormtroopers seem invincible and it looks as if earth is doomed. But by a miracle of chance First Sergeant Hood finds a flaw in the K'Thraa armour, a way in which he and his tiny army may be able to...
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![Frankenstein.comHylton H Smith]()
Science FictionFrankenstein.com follows the sleuth DCI Jack Renton who we were first introduced to earlier this year in Resident Fear . Another murderer is on the loose in the northeast of England and this time it's a much more macabre, chilling murder scene that the detectives are drawn to. A horrific picture tha...
