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The Captain of Venice review
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The Captain of Venice continues Sir William Gold's adventures in Italy (and a bit of Greece) as he serves under John Hawkwood during the Great Raid on Tuscany and, later, the defense of Venice in the Chioggian War with Genoa. It covers the back half of the 1370s, and like usual is full of...
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Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1 review
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Tales of the Sun Eater, Volume 1 is a collection of short stories set in the Sun Eater universe. It can technically be read at any point but fits in best after the second main novel.
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Queen Amid Ashes review
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Queen Amid Ashes is a novella set within the Sun Eater universe, set sometime during or after the third main novel, but officially meant to be read between the second and third main novels. It follows Hadrian's crew some few years after the events of the second novel as they liberate a planet from...
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Cocaine Bear (2023) review
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Cocaine Bear is a black comedy horror film that, while being surprisingly funny at some points, is pretty underwhelming when taken as a whole.
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Howling Dark review
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Howling Dark is the second main novel in the Sun Eater series, and it's a step up from the first.
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The Lesser Devil review
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The Lesser Devil is a novella in the Sun Eater series set during the events of the first novel, Empire of Silence. It follows Crispin, Hadrian's brother, some thirty-four years after Hadrian disappears. I don't think it's strictly necessary to have read that novel first, but it definitely provides...
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