Raymond E. Feist, Author, Joel Rosenberg, Author Eos $14.99 (324p) ISBN 978-0-06-079285-5
This second cowritten installment of Legends of the Riftwar (after Feist's 2006 collaboration with William R. Forstchen, Honored Enemy) finds Rosenberg's engaging mercenary trio, Durine, Kethol and Pirojil, drafted to escort the bed-hopping Lady...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author . Baen $25 (720p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3589-5
This omnibus volume brings together Rosenberg's first fantasy trilogy (The Sleeping Dragon; The Sword and the Chain; The Silver Crown), which if not terribly original boasts energy, wit and a strong moral sensibility. An amiable group of college
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Joel Rosenberg, Author . Forge $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0498-8
If this first mystery from fantasy author Rosenberg (Not Exactly the Three Musketeers) were a movie, it might be titled "The Boyz in the 'Hood Take a Day Trip to Lake Woebegone." Ernest "Sparky" Hemingway, a 50-ish copyeditor...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author . Tor $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0046-1
The mood of Rosenberg's third absorbing Guardians of the Flame novel (after 2001's Not Quite Scaramouche) darts between aggressive whimsy and deep introspection, sometimes within a single page. Of the trio of soldiers and friends, only...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author Tor Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86897-0
This sequel to Not Quite the Three Musketeers (1999), part of the Guardians of the Flame series, is not quite honed to rapier sharpness. The story proper doesn't begin until 50 pages into the book, when a contentious group of protectors sworn to...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author Dutton Books $16.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-453-00580-7
Tetsuo Hanavi may hold the noncombatant rank of inspector-general in the Mercenary Corps of the Israeli-descended planet Metzanda, but his real job is something closer to hitman. Along with his uncle, disgraced ex-Gen. Shimon Bar-El, Tetsuo here...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author Roc $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-45140-8
The moderately involving sixth installment in the Guardians of the Flame series, following The Warrior Lives , finds Walter Slovotsky, the dwarf Ahira, wizard Andrea Cullinane and her son Jason on the road to Ehvenor to find out why the world of...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author Roc $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-45433-1
The seventh entry in the Guardians of the the Flame fantasy series carries on the heroic adventures in magic of 18-year-old Jason Cullinane, world-weary Walter Slovotsky and their creaturely companions. The recent war with Faerie has left the land...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (354p) ISBN 978-0-688-14153-0
Rosenberg is best known for his popular Guardians of the Flame series, which postulated a crossover between our universe and a dungeons-and-dragons-style world. Here, he creates a new crossover world, this one based on a rambling version of watered-d
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Joel Rosenberg, Author Tor Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-85782-0
Rosenberg's intrepid retainers of the Castle Cullinane return in this jaunty addition to his popular Guardians of the Flame series. Doughty men-at-arms Pirojil, Durine and Kethol are stuck with the dirty work when sneaky outworlder Walter Slovotsky...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author Avon Books $23 (296p) ISBN 978-0-380-97322-4
The second installment in Rosenberg's Norse saga depends too heavily on its predecessor, The Fire Duke (1995). Fencing instructor Ian Silverstein is drawn back to Tir Na Nog, a parallel world manipulated by the trickster god Odin, who is no longer...
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Joel Rosenberg, Author Forge $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0499-5
In Joel Rosenberg's meandering Family Matters: An Ernest ""Sparky"" Hemingway Mystery, the second in the series after 2003's Home Front, Sparky takes in an inner-city teenager and is talked into becoming a deputy sheriff. The irreverent Sparky has...
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