by Arcturus Holdings Limited
Published by Arcturus Publishing Limited
A review by John Irvin
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“Each tale is an adventure into an unknown world—one that will not be easily forgot.”
From the back cover blurb:
Wondrous worlds abound in the stories within. Heroes go on great adventures through magical realms, encounter alien races, and use their ingenuity to overcome impossible difficulties.
From Robert E. Howard’s thrilling stories of Conan the Barbarian to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s subtle tale “The Artist of the Beautiful,” the power of the imagination is breathtaking. The settings range from the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the red plains of Mars.
Themes of space travel, apocalypse, magic, and power permeate these stories, but at their heart, as with all good fiction, are the characters—who remain as human as you and I.
There’s something about being able to base my reading sessions on short stories. Usually you read a chapter or two or three before putting in the bookmark to go take care of life’s issues—unless it is just that awesome of a book you can’t put it down. But when it is a book filled with a collection of short stories, you read one for the day and you feel like you’ve accomplished a good piece.
I enjoyed the classic tales shared in this collection of a book. To hop into the minds of men mostly all dead by now, to see what they envisioned the future would be or what a world of magic revealed, to see some of their subtle predictions already become reality—these are all amazing stories.
Naturally, I lean more to the fantasy genre, but the science fiction collection were all intriguing and held my interest just as much as the fantasies. To think people would try to transform carbon from the air into edible blocks and thus destroy the planet—that’s insane, but sounds like humans to me.
If you enjoy science fiction and fantasy and also would like to read a bunch of short stories—stories that can be read in one sitting—then I’m honestly certain you’ll enjoy this one.
Next book in this series that I’d like to buy is the Supernatural short stories. They’ve also got Horror and Mystery and other such collections too. Quite a variety.
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