Time Enough for Love
SciFi / 2015-08-14

Time Enough for Love is one of several books Robert Heinlein wrote for his character Lazarus Long. In it Lazarus counts his long history to a group of people who are at least as interesting in his recovery as they are in his history. Born in 1916 Lazarus Long just didn’t outlived time, but his story goes as far as the forth millennium. We both taught school, indoors and out. Perhaps our kids had a weird education… but a girl who can shape a comfortable and handsome saddle starting with a dead mule and not much else, solve quadratics in her head, shoot straight with gun and arrow, cook an omelet that is light and tasty, spout page after page of Shakespeare, butcher a hog and cure it can’t be called ignorant by New Beginnings standards. All our girls and boys could do all of that and more. I must admit that they spoke a rather florid brand of English, especially after they set up the New Globe Theater and worked straight through every one of the old Bill’s plays. No doubt this gave them odd notions of Old Earth’s culture and history, but I could not see that it hurt them. We…

the Unsuspecting Mage
Fantasy / 2015-08-13

The Unsuspecting Mage is the first of seven volumes that constitute the Morcyth Sage written by Brian S. Pratt. The book follows the adventures of a guy who likes Role Playing games, just finished high school and on what he expects to be a job interview is sent to a different reality where he become a mage. Late in the morning, he comes upon a small clearing. He pauses at the edge upon spying several rabbits. His stomach has been grumbling for the past hour, those berries hadn’t done much to satiate his hunger. As he gazes upon the rabbits, a memory of when his father had once caught and cooked a rabbit during one of their camping trips makes it even worse. Knowing that his skill rating with a spear was probably somewhere near zero, he comes up with a spell to help his aim. Holding his spear and preparing to throw, he quietly says: Spear of mine please strike true, Strike the rabbit and go right through. As the last syllable is spoken, he takes aim at the nearest rabbit, draws back his arm and throws. When the spear leaves his hand, he again feels the surge of power. The…