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Category: Books & Print

Off the Bookshelf: The Ancient Ones, Excession, Wise Man’s Fear

September 9, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

The trailing edge of this summer’s reading list included David Brin’s The Ancient Ones, Iain Bank’s Excession, and Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear. It also saw a considerable slow down in my reading pace due to the style of[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: Fall, The Last Emperox, The Dreaming Stars, Auberon, The Bohr Maker

August 5, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

Nuketown’s Summer Reading List for 2020 is in full swing. During my summer vacation at Lake Champlain, I finished up Fall (or Dodge in Hell) and knocked out The Last Emperox, The Dreaming Stars, and Auberon (an Expanse novella). I[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: The Unicorn Project, Bone Silence, Arcana of the Ancients

July 3, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

Nuketown’s summer reading list for 2020 is in full effect. In May and June, I finished two books – The Unicorn Project and Bone Silence – and picked up Arcana of the Ancients, a hefty new science fantasy RPG  sourcebook for my new lunchtime[…]

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Summer Reading List 2020

May 19, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

After last year’s summer reading list took me nine months to complete, I decided to make this year’s list more manageable. I certainly had fun with last year’s list – 19 books, 5 graphic novels – but by summer’s end[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: The 5th Season, Salvation Lost, Recursion

April 17, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

Nuketown’s 2019 Summer Reading List is finally complete. After beginning in May 2019, I finally finished the last book on the list – The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin – in February 2020. That left me free to get[…]

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Brainstorming Nuketown’s Summer 2020 Reading List

April 10, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

It’s April and we’re under “stay at home” orders in Pennsylvania. Work from home – and remote learning – are the order of the day for my family. Summer seems a hell of a long way off, and even when[…]

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The X-men step through an otherworldly portal.

Top of the Pile: X-Men Resurgence

January 31, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

The X-Men are back. After years of being sidelined in the Marvel comic book universe, the X-Men have returned to their rightful prominence. Heralded by the twin six-issue series House of X and Powers of X, the X-Pantheon is back with a[…]

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A space-suited (battle armored?) figure flies through blue light.

Off the Bookshelf: The Past Through Tomorrow, The Goal, The Light Brigade

December 27, 2019 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

I went Old School with the first two books on my list on my summer reading list: Robert Heinlein’s The Past Through Tomorrow is a collection of his “Future History” short stories, novellas, and novels written in the 1940s and 1950s. It was[…]

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The Starlight Wanderer Hits the Trail

July 29, 2019 Ken Newquist Blog, Books & Print, Technology

My third Amazon Kindle Paperwhite e-reader arrived just in time for my June vacation. The 10th generation Kindle’s boasts two notable improvements: it’s waterproof and it integrates with Audible audiobooks. I greatly enjoyed my Kindles … right until screen damage[…]

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Top of the Pile: X-Men Blue, Superior Spider-man, Immortal Hulk

May 23, 2019 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

I’m as close to current with my comic book pull list as I’m likely to get in the modern era, having just finished X-men Blue and getting ready for the Age of X-Men alternative universe titles. Truth be told, I’d be caught up if[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

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