Category: Books

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Mindjammer–A new kind of Science Fiction

By Paco Garcia Jaen I will make this clear. I am not much into Science Fiction. I am a Fantasy guy. Tolkien, Feist, Weis, Martin… I like my dragons, magic, armours and all sort of fantasy things. I haven’t read a Science Fiction novel since I read “The Weavers of Hairs” (or however it was…
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Pathfinder Tales: Winter Witch

I am a very strong believer that supporting a solid RPG setting with a solid novel or short story is always a good idea. Being a big fan of Paizo and Pathfinder, when I saw Winter Witch in the shelf of the bookstore where I was browsing, I instinctively put it in my shopping basket (yes, I have to use a shopping basket when I go to a book store… I’m that sort of guy).

Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress

By Paco Garcia Jaen I have never understood why there aren’t more women old and young playing role playing games. Specially because the ones I have met who do play, make for fantastic players and great company. Actually, no.. scrap that. I understand it perfectly now. I am going to venture saying that women didn’t…
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Sword of the Gods

By Paco Garcia Jaen I don’t think many times I have read a book that has left me with so many mixed feelings about it, and most of them being good feelings. Let’s go in parts. The plot. Demascus has woken up in the middle of a pile of corpses. He can’t remember anything. How…
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Shadow Raiders; The Dragon Brigade Volume 1

By Paco Garcia Jaen It shouldn’t take more than a few pages for a book to capture the reader’s imagination. With this book it took me 5 pages. Margaret Weis is a legend. Without her and Tracy Hickman we wouldn’t have the Dragonlance. Just for that, all role players out there owe her an immense debt of…
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