Firebird, by Jack McDevitt (Ace, November 2011. Hardcover, 384 pages) ‘Firebird’ by Jack McDevitt starts in much the same way most ‘Alex Benedict’ novels do. Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, come into possession of some artefacts and prepare to sell them. Alex Benedict is no ordinary antiquities dealer, however. He has an insatiable curiosityContinueContinue reading “Review: Firebird”
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Review: Armored
Armored, Edited by John Joseph Adams (Baen, March 2012. Paperback, 608 pages) Sadly, for those who write introductions and forewords for anthologies, I often only glance at them in passing, then move on to the good stuff – the stories. In this instance, the first sentence of the foreword by Orson Scott Card leapt outContinueContinue reading “Review: Armored”