Selected Reviews

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LAST MAGE

Outstanding!

Member: HuMJah
August 31, 2010

This is possibly one of my favorite reads each week. I look forward to seeing that a new update has been released. I’m finding the sort of excitement in reading that our parents and grandparents must have found in serialized stories in magazines, in a way that has been previously been limited to television series for me. This is simply [more . . .]

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THE APHORISMS OF KHERISHDAR

The Grace of a New World

Editor: Eli James
August 31, 2010

come sit down with me I will serve you tea and cheese let us eat and talk

the world moves quickly we forget beautiful things because we see not

fine morning roses the curve of moon clouds at night bright twinkle of [more . . .]

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CORVUS

Weblit, in every sense of the term

Editor: Eli James
August 30, 2010

"Listen, sugar, some things never change. Once a nigger lover, always a nigger lover. Only now they call them augers."

I have put off writing this review for the longest time. I finished Corvus at the tail end of 2009, and then had a few conversations with Lee, its author, not [more . . .]

 
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EMBER

Cinderella, Not.

Editor: Eli James
August 30, 2010

This is going to be a short review, because my fellow editors have said pretty much all there needs to be said about Ember.

Ember is brilliant. It’s a well written, wonderfully imagined, quirky retelling of the classic Cinderella story.

It’s also [more . . .]

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ZOMBIE PUNTER

Zombies Have Never Been This Fun

Editor: Eli James
August 30, 2010

Zombie Punter is 24 chapters of pure fun.

The story opens with the zombie outbreak, seen through the eyes of one Eugene O’Donnell, and so you’re thrust, almost immediately, into this crazy world that breaks down right at the beginning.

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THE ADMONISHMENTS OF KHERISHDAR

Murky and Ungrounded

Member: M.E.Traylor
August 21, 2010

These stories are not nearly as strong as Aphorisms of Kherishdar, and for me suffer both from stylistic and intellectual approach.

Each piece in this collection is told by a different narrator, so the sparse description and brevity doesn’t have the benefit of building on itself over time. They do build [more . . .]