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A new book recommendation, just on the shelves this month:
Territory by Emma Bull.
I am, I must admit, a giant Emma Bull fanboy. I discovered her work back in '91, and I've been a fan ever since. Territory is her first book in a while, but it's a damn fine piece of work.
Everyone knows about Tombstone, Arizona. Everyone knows about the events that shaped that historical town and about the Great Men that walked its streets. Men like Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp; Doc Holliday; and John Ringo.
Forget everything you know, or you think you know, about these men. Territory tells a story from between the lines of the histories. A story where Wyatt Earp is more than just a gunslinger, and where a drifter named Jesse Fox finds himself caught between the two sides of a war over not only the land of Tombstone, but also the power that land provides. Emma Bull writes an engaging Western fantasy that is filled with "what ifs" and "might have beens." She unfortunately wrote too much, so the second half will be out later. But Territory stands well on its own.
Eb-Bob sez: "Check it out!"
Ebony the Black Dragon
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Ebony the Black Dragon
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A new Emma Bull novel? Excuse me, I have to go hit the 1-click-buy button at Amazon NOW!
(sorry, but I've been a Bull fanboy ever since Chris Claremont made Cats Laughing a recurring cameo gig in X-men)

Oh my god!
thanks so much for the heads up.

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(sorry, but I've been a Bull fanboy ever since Chris Claremont made Cats Laughing a recurring cameo gig in X-men)

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It was Excalibur, actually, or maybe both, but I get that. I met her and Will Shetterly at ConDFW back in February, although I've been a fan of hers since before then. I managed to ask her and Stephen Brust if the Cats would ever get back together; they're response was: "It would be nice, but not any time soon." Geographical difficulties and all that.
Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
http://www.lrgames.com
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

Not exactly a recommendation but a book I'd like to get my hands on:
THE LEAGUE OF HEROES
by Xavier Maumejean
adapted by Manuella Chevalier

"We will probably never know how it happened. Some historians claim that it was the earthquake in Sanriku, others that it was the Fairy Folk themselves who, with their strange spells, opened the path between our universe and theirs. And others believe that the hole in the aether was created by Professor Cavor's early efforts to synthesize the prodigious substance now known as Cavorite in June 1896. Whatever the cause, the world has never been the same since that fateful day when the inhabitants of Neverland arrived in Kensington Gardens..." J.M. Barrie.
Lord Kraven, leader of Phileas Fogg's League of Heroes, battles alongside Sherlock Holmes, Lord Greystoke, Professor Cavor, English Bob, Captain Hook, Kid Colt, the Steel Comrade, Auguste de Grandin, Baron Stromboli and other colorful heroes to protect the mighty Empire of Albion from the dastardly villainy of Peter Pan, the Jade Mask, the deadly Doctor Fatal, the Pharaoh Im-Ho-Tep, Prince Sinbad, Fantmas, the otherworldly Horla and a host of other foes -- but is that all there is to his enchanted existence?"
Heck, I'd love to get everything on their catalog.
www.blackcoatpress.com/catalog.htm