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reviewed Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories by Michael Moorcock (Elric of Melniboné (Gollancz edition), #1)

Michael Moorcock: Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories (EBook, 2014, Gollancz)

Elric of Melniboné is the classic fantasy antihero who transformed the genre, an evil emperor …

Bel romanzo principale, paratesti disastrati

Premetto che ho iniziato Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories a Novembre 2017, l'ho interrotto a metà e l'ho ricominciato da capo oggi, 28 Agosto 2018 – e me lo sono finito tutto d'un fiato. Ho dovuto fruirlo così perché Moorcock e il personale della Gollancz si sono chiaramente fatti di acidi e hanno usato questo volume come discarica in cui stampare tutti i saggi miscellanei che avevano in archivio: fra prefazioni e postfazioni ci ritroviamo a leggere una dopo l'altra introduzioni multiple alla vita e all'opera di Moorcock, introduzioni al genere sword & sorcery in generale e alla saga di Elric in particolare, saggi di critica letteraria scritti da Moorcock, la prefazione a una specifica edizione di uno specifico testo, persino quello che sembra essere il trascritto di una conferenza, e infine un saggio lungo che è stato diviso in più parti per spalmarlo su tutti i sei volumi …

reviewed The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)

John Scalzi: The Ghost Brigades (EBook, 2007, Tor)

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created …

Where's John Perry?

Found as EN "boxed set" and read the trilogy (with Old Man's War & The Last Colony) in less than a week (nights mainly). Less entertaining than #1 IMHO, but "needed" to jump into #3

Marion G. Harmon: Small Town Heroes (Paperback)

Astra has become one of the most popular Sentinels in Chicago, past scandals notwithstanding, and …

Not really part #4

This is book #4 in the series, but it's not the fourth part. Apparently there's a short story, "Omega Night", and it contained both plot and character developments that significantly impact this book. However, even on the official author's website it's not listed between books 3 and 4. It's listed after the final book, among other "related works".

And the author doesn't really do a good job of recapping what happened, it's just an abrupt jump, and now Hope/Astra's angsting over a new crush that started during that book, freaking out over a danger to one of her friends that's due to events in that book, and a number of other sudden changes.

And these changes continue to casually come up over the course of the entire book, so that put a serious damper on my enjoyment of it.

Beyond that, the premise/setting was unique and somewhat …

Titles are dumb

Despite the two main characters having the same character, this was fun and fresh and slightly silly. It reminds me of Unsouled (Cradle #1) but also a bit of Ed Greenwood's Band of Four series.