Search Results for "James D. Macdonald": 13 results
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: (01) The Price of the Stars; [meta] 1 year booklog anniversary: Just a brief note to say that even when I'm distracted and perpetually short on sleep, Debra Doyle and James Macdonald's The Price of the Stars is still great fun. I remembered much less of it than I thought,...
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: (02) Starpilot's Grave; (03) By Honor Betray'd; (05) The Long Hunt: Re-read the rest of the Mageworlds books, Starpilot's Grave, By Honor Betray'd, and The Long Hunt, all of which pose plot-related problems of various degrees for me. Starpilot's Grave and By Honor Betray'd are the direct sequels to The...
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: (04) The Gathering Flame: Back when I re-read The Stars Asunder and read A Working of Stars, I decided to re-read the rest of Doyle and Macdonald's Mageworlds books in internal chronological order. Partly, I was curious to see how Arekhon's character changed...
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: (06) The Stars Asunder: During the weekend, I got to experience all kinds of things—massively annoying air travel [1], Kentucky highways [2], the precise point at which enthusiasm overcomes coordination on the dance floor [3]—which meant that, during my Sunday flights home, I...
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: (07) A Working of Stars: During finals, I also read Debra Doyle and James Macdonald's A Working of Stars, the sequel to The Stars Asunder. This was good, but not the best in the series. Past books have featured assorted revelations-and-inversions, often related to messing...
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: Knight's Wyrd: Knight's Wyrd is a YA novel by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald; it won a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1993. Will is the heir to a barony; on the eve of his knighting, Will is...
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: Land of Mist and Snow: Land of Mist and Snow, by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, is a stand-alone fantasy set an alternate U.S. Civil War. Despite the title [*], the book is mostly concerned with the sea: the Union has discovered a way...
Doyle, Debra, and James D. Macdonald: Circle of Magic series: When I got back from vacation, I didn't feel like reading anything lengthy, so I picked up Debra Doyle and James Macdonald's Circle of Magic series, six books that were recently re-published, some under different names: School of Wizardry...
Macdonald, James D., and Debra Doyle: (01) "Stealing God": While we were out picking up the extended DVD of The Fellowship of the Ring, we also got a copy of Tales of the Knights Templar, edited by Katherine Kurtz, which has the first Peter Crossman story, "Stealing God."...
Macdonald, James D., and Debra Doyle: (02) "Selling the Devil": "I'd come to New York on business, switching out fabric samples from the Shroud of Turin so that the scientists who were doing the tests would declare it a fake and give it a rest." Ah, another Peter Crossman...
Macdonald, James D., and Debra Doyle: (03) "Sleeping Kings": In the past few weeks, I also read a bunch of short stories, standard fare for weeks with insufficient time. One of those was the most recent Peter Crossman story, "Sleeping Kings" by Debra Doyle and James Macdonald, which...
Macdonald, James D.: (04) The Apocalypse Door: I knew I had to read James D. Macdonald's The Apocalypse Door right from its opening paragraphs: When Dante Alighieri wrote his guided tour of Hell one of the stops was the infernal city of Dis: the home of...
Macdonald, James D.: (04) The Apocalypse Door (re-read): A couple of weeks ago, I needed to fully unwind, sink all the way down into a book and completely lose myself in it. I'd recently had the pleasure of recommending James D. Macdonald's The Apocalypse Door to someone looking...