In 2009, you cannot write a book about young magicians without knowing that your book will be held up against the Harry Potter series and probably discarded. Since J.K. Rowling dropped her cultural bomb on us all those years ago, we’ve already seen a glut of second-rate wizardry series, just as Stephenie Meyer’s already-execrable Twilight [...]
Kren of the Mitchegai was the last book that Leo Frankowski published through a major publisher before his death in 2008. Ostensibly the third (of a seven-part series never to be completed) entry in the timeline begun in A Boy and His Tank, it spends most of its time narrating the life of Kren, an [...]
¶ Solaris
Solaris is considered one of Polish writer Stanisław Lem’s greatest books—certainly, it’s his most popular, having been adapted for film three times. But, while the original book was written in Polish, there has not, and still is not, a direct Polish-to-English translation available. The book available in your neighborhood bookstore is in fact an English [...]
Although The Man in the High Castle probably takes the trophy for Philip K. Dick’s most well-known novel, it is followed closely by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but this is mostly because the story was thrust into prominence by the success of Ridley Scott’s loose film adaptation known as Blade Runner. So closely [...]
I don’t think I’m spoiling too much when I say that Leo Frankowski’s The Adventures of Conrad Stargard series is unlike Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court in more ways than one. Specifically, however, Twain’s cynicism left his protagonist unable to effect change in the past, whereas Frankowski’s hero effects so much change [...]
The previous book in the series ended on a low note, pounding home a bitter note of chauvinism that presaged some of Frankowski’s work on the late 1990s. It also ended on the cusp of Poland’s fight against the Mongols in 1241, except in this alternate timeline, Conrad has industrialized Poland, starting a flight school, [...]
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