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I’ve heard a lot of great things about this. He takes readers to a fantastical medieval Europe where Brother Diaz has been recalled to the Sacred City, where he’s expecting to be rewarded for his work. Upon arriving, he finds that he’s been assigned to a new group: one made up of murders, magicians, and monsters, and sent out to protect their world against an invasion of Elves who’re planning on devouring everyone they come across. The paperback just came out from Tor Books.

Today I completed my 100% custom cover movie and TV show Blu-ray collection. I wanted to do this because the official releases are extremely inconsistent from case to case (even within the same show!), and look really bad when all together like this. Mine aren’t perfect either (finding consistent covers for all seven seasons of The Clone Wars is difficult) but I’ll get them eventually.

The only viewable media I haven’t included in this collection are the shorts, such as the 3 minute shorts that came out with the Young Jedi Adventures show. I may add these in the future but I don’t think they add much canon value, and it would be quite the waste of a disc.

They are currently in chronological order (up to a per season granularity), but that’s not perfect because some shows jump around the timeline from episode to episode. For the Tales shows specifically, I’ve placed them after their last timeline appearance, so Tales of the Empire is right after Return of the Jedi, once the empire has fallen.

I should also mention that some of these shows don’t even have official Blu-ray releases (such as Resistance), so for those I have custom discs. Another road block for my collection is I need Traditional Chinese subs on my discs for my wife to read, but some of the shows don’t have Blu-ray releases for the Traditional Chinese market, so for those I ripped the international disc to my PC, added the subtitles and re-burnt them to a fresh disc.

Also, these covers weren’t made by me, I found them all online. I printed them on my cheap Epson L3550 printer, and cut them out with a metal ruler and an X-Acto knife.

EDIT: The Acolyte should actually be after Young Jedi Adventures, I misplaced it when moving to this rack. Upon the recommendation of others, I’ve also moved Skeleton Crew to after Ashoka, Resistance season 1 to before The Force Awakens, and Andor season 2 to after all of Rebels.

This is a superb series, and this entry digs deeper into issues of servitude, survival, and generations. I’ll be really interested in seeing how this wraps up with the next book.

OMG. Way back in 2002, Steven Spielberg presented a miniseries on the SCIFI Channel: Taken. It’s an interconnected story of three families and their connection to UFOs, stretching from the “foo fighters” in World War 2, up through Roswell, and to around 2000.

I had this novelization from when it came out, but I parted with it at some point. I just found this at a used book sale and had to snag it. Should make for a good re-read/re-watch ahead of Spielberg’s Disclosure Day this summer.

It follows Briar Jones, who's dreamed of attending a prestigious institution called the Temple School of Thaumaturgy, which has produced many of the country's notable figures, and there are rumors that it's secret to success is magic.

His friend Sebastian isn't swayed by the school's reputation, but he wants to stay with Briar, and when Seb gets an acceptance letter and Briar doesn't, their friendship is shattered. Years later, Briar takes a temp job at the academy to sort through the school's attics, and reunites with his friend. However, he finds that he's completely changed: the quiet, sweet kid he loved is now an arrogant bully, while the secrets that the school hold might not be as magical as he imagined.

It's out in June from Harper Voyager

There was a cool feature that I worked on at one point where I interviewed a bunch of creative people to see what they carry around day-to-day and to glean some insights into their creative process.

I’ve done it a couple of times for the newsletter and figured it was time for an update.

The last issue of Star Wars Insider was published today. It’s a real shame to see it go.

18 new books including new ones from Ann Leckie, Matt Dinniman, and Martha Wells! (I’ll have another list later in the month)

I loved his Founders trilogy and had this on my list for ages. I absolutely loved this one: the world and its mechanics are phenomenal, the characters are great and the plot was gripping. Onto the next one!

Gotta clear some space off my shelves.

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Second time, absolutely spectacular in IMAX.