At the ripe old age of forty, all the citizens of the Safe Lands are “liberated”, sent by their government into Bliss. No one is certain what, exactly, that means, but Omar and Mason are about to find out. “Find pleasure in Bliss,” the liberator says, but it won’t be easy. Meanwhile, in the Safe…
Month: September 2014
CSFF Blog Tour: Captives, Outcasts, Rebels
Today we begin the CSFF blog tour of … wait a minute, it’s in my notes … Rebels. Yes, that’s it: Rebels, by Jill Williamson. Rebels is the third and final book of the Safe Lands Trilogy. All the books have titles that consist entirely of a single noun, and there’s a common theme –…
Into the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking Glass
It has been exactly two weeks since I last posted. I did blog last week, over at Speculative Faith; the weeks when you don’t find me here, I’m usually over there. Next week, however, is the CSFF blog tour of Rebels, and I’ll be posting on SpecFaith and my own blog. In the meantime, I…
Blog Tour: A Different Kind of Courage
Who Was Dr. Joseph Warren? A Guest Post by Sarah Holman The early years of the American Revolution have been almost completely forgotten. Actually, the entire history of that war is often condensed down to these events: The Boston Tea Party, The Midnight Ride/Lexington and Concord, the Declaration of Independence, 1776, Americans win the War….
Review: Unbound
There are two things Elijah Goldsmith does not lack. The first is money. The second is ambition. It is not enough, in one year, to graduate high school and begin college at Princeton. He mixes in one more thing: Becoming a spy. Only he doesn’t know, when he goes to Washington in the cold beginning…