{"id":236,"date":"2011-02-02T02:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/02\/02\/books-received-2111-del-rey-edition\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","slug":"books-received-2111-del-rey-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/02\/02\/books-received-2111-del-rey-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 2\/1\/11 Del Rey edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n

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Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True<\/span><\/a>
\nby Kris Sanussemm<\/span><\/p>\n

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Enigmatic Pilot<\/span> is Kris Saknussemm\u2019s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream\u2014and nightmare.<\/p>\n

In 1844, in a still-young America, the first intimations of civil war are stirring throughout the land. In Zanesville, Ohio, the Sitturd family\u2014Hephaestus, a clubfooted inventor; his wife, Rapture, a Creole from the Sea Islands; and their prodigiously gifted six-year-old son, Lloyd, whose libido is as precocious as his intellect\u2014are forced to flee the only home they have ever known for an uncertain future in Texas, whence Hephaestus\u2019s half-brother, Micah, has sent them a mysterious invitation, promising riches and wonders too amazing to be entrusted to paper.<\/p>\n

Thus begins one of the most incredible American journeys since Huck Finn and Jim first pushed their raft into the Mississippi. Along the way, Lloyd will learn the intricacies of poker and murder, solve the problem of manned flight, find\u2014and lose\u2014true love, and become swept up in an ancient struggle between two secret societies whose arcane dispute has shaped the world\u2019s past and threatens to reshape its future. Each side wants to use Lloyd against the other, but Lloyd has his own ideas\u2014and access to an occult technology as powerful as his imagination.<\/p>\n

I lavished praise upon Saknussemm’s first novel Zanesville<\/span><\/a>, so I’m looking forward to the second volume in his Lodemania Testament.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Deceived<\/span><\/a>
\nby Paul S. Kemp<\/span><\/p>\n

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The second novel set in the Old Republic era and based on the massively multiplayer online game Star Wars\u00ae: The Old Republic\u2122 ramps up the action and brings readers face-to-face for the first time with a Sith warrior to rival the most sinister of the Order\u2019s Dark Lords\u2014Darth Malgus, the mysterious, masked Sith of the wildly popular \u201cDeceived\u201d and \u201cHope\u201d game trailers.<\/p>\n

Malgus brought down the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in a brutal assault that shocked the galaxy. But if war crowned him the darkest of Sith heroes, peace would transform him into something far more heinous\u2014something Malgus would never want to be, but cannot stop, any more than he can stop the rogue Jedi fast approaching.<\/p>\n

Her name is Aryn Leneer\u2014and the lone Knight that Malgus cut down in the fierce battle for the Jedi Temple was her Master. And now she\u2019s going to find out what happened to him, even if it means breaking every rule in the book.<\/p>\n

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Hidden Cities<\/span><\/a>
\nby Daniel Fox<\/span><\/p>\n

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The mythic beasts and glorious legends of feudal China illuminate a world at war in this, the conclusion to Daniel Fox\u2019s critically acclaimed series.<\/p>\n

Whatever they thought, this was always where they were going: to the belly of the dragon, or the belly of the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

More by chance than good judgment, the young emperor has won his first battle. The rebels have retreated from the coastal city of Santung\u2014but they\u2019ll be back. Distracted by his pregnant concubine, the emperor sends a distrusted aide, Ping Wen, to govern Santung in his place. There, the treacherous general will discover the healer Tien, who is obsessed with a library of sacred mage texts and the secrets concealed within\u2014secrets upon which, Ping Wen quickly realizes, the fate of the whole war may turn.<\/p>\n

As all sides of this seething conflict prepare for more butchery, a miner of magical jade, himself invulnerable, desperately tries to save his beautiful and yet brutally scarred clan cousin; a priestess loses her children, who are taken as pawns in a contest beyond her comprehension; and a fierce and powerful woman commits an act of violence that will entwine her, body and soul, with the spirit of jade itself. Amid a horde of soldiers, torturers, and runaways, these people will test both their human and mystical powers against a violent world. But one force trumps all: the huge, hungry, wrathful dragon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True by Kris Sanussemm Promo copy: Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm\u2019s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n