by Wade | Sep 8, 2021 | Reader Updates
In Badlands Born, the crew gather their supplies from Curdy’s Grocery, Jasmine’s childhood grocery store. The fictional store blends two places from my youth: an old Wisconsin tavern on Highway 13 and a neighborhood grocery store two towns over. They’ve always stuck...
by Wade | Aug 18, 2021 | Reader Updates
It’s that time in my daughter’s life where we’re visiting colleges in hopes of eventually picking one that fits. Now when I was her age, I already knew where I was going, so I never felt the need to visit other campuses. Likewise, I picked a large...
by Wade | Jul 28, 2021 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies
Coyote by Allen Steele The Coyote stories were originally short stories published in sci-fi pulp magazines about a colony of political prisoners who steal a colony spaceship and settle on the titular planet. Several series of unfortunate events occur, such as one of...
by Wade | Jul 21, 2021 | Reader Updates
Ocean’s Eleven, The Sting, American Gods. I love a good con story, and I was hoping Loki would deliver something similar. A good con story at its heart a magic trick, a story within a story that fools you, then shows you how it was done. The character of Loki is...
