Halo: First Strike

The third book in the Halo series is title “First Strike.” Eric Nylund, author of the first Halo book “The Fall of Reach” returns to finish some of the unresolved plots from the first book. The book takes place between Halo 1 and Halo 2 video games.
The novel also provides the Halo gamer with insights [...]

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Halo: The Flood (Book Review)

The second book in the Halo series is titled “The Flood.” The book is written by William C. Dietz who’s background of serving in the US Navy as medic might have helped him with the characters and background stories.
This book is a novelization of the first Halo video game (Halo: Combat Evolved). I never got [...]

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Halo: The Fall of Reach (Book Review)

I wasn’t too familiar with the Halo series until last year when I played Halo for the first time. I knew it was a FPS (first person shooter) and knew that it involved running around and shooting aliens, much like most other FPS games. Since FPS games weren’t my speciality, I had never spent much [...]

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The Orc King: Transitions, Book 1 (Book Review)

I’ve read a lot of R.A. Salvatore books and I mean a lot. About 3 or 4 years ago, I figured that as a fantasy/sci-fi buff, I should start reading some of the most famous and most read D&D novels of all time: The Dark Elf Triology (The Legend of Drizzt, Books 1-3).
Those weren’t [...]

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Mass Effect: Ascension (Book Review)

Mass Effect: Ascension is the second novel of the Mass Effect series. The book is based on the game of the same name by BioWare. The author, Drew Karpyshyn, works for BioWare and has also written books on the BioWare’s Knights of the Old Republic game.
I read the first Mass Effect novel before the Mass [...]

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How many banned books have you read?

There’s been a lot of discussions over a certain government official’s “rhetorical and realistic” questions asking the town’s librarian “if [the librarian] could live with censorship of library books.”
Just for clarification, the town did not ban any of the books. The librarian was just asked if she’d object to having some books removed from the [...]

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Gary Gygax (1938-2008)

Most people will probably not know about Gary Gygax, but his influences have been instrumental in the gaming and fantasy industry for over the last thirty years or so.
If you’ve ever played a role playing game, such as World of Warcraft, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, or Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, then [...]

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Mass Effect: Revelation (Book Review)

Mass Effect: Revelation is a prequel to BioWare’s Mass Effect video game for the XBOX 360. I picked up the book a couple days after buying the video game. I haven’t had time to finish the game yet, I’ve just made it as far as becoming a SPECTRE (Special Tactics and Reconnaissance) agent in my [...]

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