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    Gold

    Gold

    Chris Cleave

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    The extraordinary third novel from Chris Cleave, author of the internationally bestselling,...

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David McK (3372 KP) rated Star Wars: Tie Fighter in Books

May 7, 2020  
Star Wars: Tie Fighter
Star Wars: Tie Fighter
Jody Houser | 2019 | Comics & Graphic Novels
6
6.3 (3 Ratings)
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During the mid to late 90s, there was a series of graphic novels company, all centring around the pilots of Rogue and (later) Wraith Squadron, and 'spun-off' from the immensely popular X-Wing and TIE fighter games by the now-defunct Lucasarts company.

That's all gone by the wayside (and recatogorised as Legends) ever since Disney bought out Lucasfilm.

I picked this one up when it was on sale for part of 2020s Comixology 'May the Fourth' (be with you) sale, having previously read the novel it leads into (that novel being Alphabet Squadron). As such, this story follows a group of Imperial pilots - rather than the more common point of view of Rebel pilots - flying various missions for the Empire, leading up to the battle of Endor and receiving word of their defeat.

Yes, the art is really rather good.
Yes, the story is really rather bland.
  
    Rapture

    Rapture

    Susan Minot

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    Taking one single interlude – two bodies entwined on a bed at midday, lovers rekindling an old...

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David McK (3372 KP) rated Hero in the Shadows (Drenai 9; Waylander 3) in Books

Dec 5, 2021  
Hero in the Shadows (Drenai 9; Waylander 3)
Hero in the Shadows (Drenai 9; Waylander 3)
David Gemmell | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry
8
7.5 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Chronologically the third entry in David Gemmell's Drenia saga, published ninth in order, that completes the trilogy of Waylander the Slayer: a character first introduced in Waylander before being further expanded upon in Waylander II: In the Realm of the Wolf and which thus makes him of the very few characters that Gemmell returned to more than once in that series (indeed, the only other character I can think of is of Druss himself. Oh, and Skilgannon (who had two novels).

I've always found that there is an element of truth to the charge that the nations in his works reflect real-life counterparts (Nadir = Huns, Drenai = Greek), with those novel expanding to include the Kydor and the Chiatze, with the Men of Mud obviously reflecting the Terracotta army.

Oh, and the finale of the novel, in which Waylander finally finds peace?

*Chef's kiss*