John Jude Palencar
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John Jude Palencar 2007 Wall Calendar 1 exemplaire
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L'Héritage, Tome 1 : Eragon (2002) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 32,414 exemplaires
Merry Gentry, Tome 2 : La caresse de l'aube (2002) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 4,140 exemplaires
L'Héritier de Kushiel, Imriel #1 (2006) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 2,858 exemplaires
Dreams Underfoot: A Newford Collection (1993) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 2,147 exemplaires
Le Royaume de Tobin, L'intégrale 1 : (2001) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,977 exemplaires
The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death (1995) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,469 exemplaires
Une aventure de Vicki Nelson, Tome 2 : Piste sanglante (1992) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,406 exemplaires
Le Royaume de Tobin : L'intégrale : Tome 2 (2003) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,395 exemplaires
Daughter of Regals and Other Tales (1984) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,300 exemplaires
Une aventure de Vicki Nelson, Tome 3 : Frontière sanglante (1993) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,272 exemplaires
Le Royaume de Tobin, Tome 3 : (2006) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,193 exemplaires
Une aventure de Vicki Nelson, Tome 5 : Dette de sang (1997) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,133 exemplaires
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Volume 1, Eragon (Tales from Alagaësia) (2018) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,045 exemplaires
Festin d'Âmes: La Trilogie des Magisters, T1 (2007) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1,024 exemplaires
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness (1996) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 947 exemplaires
Le projet Eidolon, Dossier 1 : Les racines du mal (2010) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 825 exemplaires
Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 779 exemplaires
The Blood Books Volume 1: Blood Price, Blood Trail (2006) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 737 exemplaires
Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror! (2003) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 722 exemplaires
Eragon / Eldest / Brisingr / Inheritance (2014) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 652 exemplaires
Reave the Just and Other Tales (1998) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 598 exemplaires
The Blood Books Volume 2: Blood Lines, Blood Pact (1993) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 536 exemplaires
Les Ailes de la colère: La Trilogie des Magisters, T2 (2009) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 522 exemplaires
The Blood Books Volume 3: Blood Debt, Blood Bank (2006) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 492 exemplaires
The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2009) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 397 exemplaires
The Winds of Marble Arch {collection} (2007) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 396 exemplaires
Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos (1992) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 213 exemplaires
The Greener Shore: A Novel of the Druids of Hibernia (2006) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 198 exemplaires
The One-Eyed Man: A Fugue, With Winds and Accompaniment (2013) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 131 exemplaires
Drawn Blades (A Fallen Blade Novel) (2014) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 90 exemplaires
Darkened Blade: A Fallen Blade Novel (2015) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 72 exemplaires
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth (2013) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 60 exemplaires
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 33, No. 8 [August 2009] (2009) — Artiste de la couverture — 17 exemplaires
Eye of Flame and Other Fantasies (Five Star Speculatvie Fiction) (2003) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 12 exemplaires
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 39, No. 2 [February 2015] (2015) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 8 exemplaires
Incarnations of Immortality Omnibus 1 (On a Pale Horse, Bearing an Hourglass) (2013) — Artiste de la couverture — 6 exemplaires
Desolate Souls: Souvenir Anthology of the World Horror Convention 2008 (2008) — Artiste de la couverture — 4 exemplaires
Realms of Fantasy, October 2010 (Vol. 17 No. 1) — Artiste de la couverture, quelques éditions — 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1957-02-26
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Fairview Park, Ohio, USA
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- 6
This is a collection of five short stories commissioned by Tor for a painting by John Jude Palencar. I have been interested in this project for a while, so I thought I'd give these a read. (I'm reviewing the ebook instead of the individuals for once because I'm hoping the whole is better than the parts.)
[b:New World Blues|20556330|New World Blues|L.E. Modesitt Jr.|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389830094s/20556330.jpg|38688961] by [a:L.E. Modesitt Jr.|1301649|L.E. Modesitt Jr.|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1207333645p2/1301649.jpg] A woman is sent to a purple-gray world to save others. This is supposed to be a feminist story. Not enough background in there to establish the victory. 2*
[b:Dormanna|13541034|Dormanna|Gene Wolfe|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1331703472s/13541034.jpg|19104260] by [a:Gene Wolfe|23069|Gene Wolfe|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1207670073p2/23069.jpg] Close encounters, growing up. Aren't they the same thing? I was extremely unsure of this one at first, but it sticks the ending. Liked it a lot. 3*. Maybe 4* on reflection.
[b:Thanatos Beach|20557304|Thanatos Beach|James K. Morrow|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389840437s/20557304.jpg|38761640] by [a:James K. Morrow|22631|James K. Morrow|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1242312093p2/22631.jpg] I think this is supposed to be an absurdist parody of some of the more pretentious upper-crust stories that have been published in The New Yorker. Nice conceit (cancer as alien), but I don't care enough about sending up that set to get anything out of this. (If it's not parody then its inane and boring and a waste of that story idea.) 2* at best.
[b:The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree|20557373|The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree|Michael Swanwick|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389840979s/20557373.jpg|38766723] by [a:Michael Swanwick|14454|Michael Swanwick|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1257630257p2/14454.jpg] This is Good Will Hunting meets The Mirror Has Two Faces. The effect is a sappy romance with a lot of hand-waving at sciency philosophy type stuff. 2*
[b:The Sigma Structure Symphony|20557423|The Sigma Structure Symphony|Gregory Benford|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389841592s/20557423.jpg|38770141] by [a:Gregory Benford|22645|Gregory Benford|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1224059011p2/22645.jpg] This wanted to be more of a novel than a short story. Hard sci-fi, there are a lot of ideas packed in here about language and music and math and how AI might communicate over galactic distances. Interesting ideas, but a slog to read. There's a nice splash of [b:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance|629|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance An Inquiry Into Values|Robert M. Pirsig|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1410136019s/629.jpg|175720] as well. I like the story better now on reflection than I did while I was reading it or right after I finished. 3*
Overall, I was disappointed as compared to what Tor normally delivers with their online original fiction. I felt like most of these stories tried much too hard. Also, a weird theme came through the whole: every one of these authors is a man writing from a woman's point of view, and not all of them actually manage to inhabit it well. Maybe the close encounters theme brought the war of the sexes into sharp focus. Maybe it's just me. Only buy the ebook if you want to send some money to Tor; all five stories are available free online from Tor.com (links below). I'd check out "Dormanna" by itself; give "The Sigma Structure Symphony" a go if you like hard sci-fi. Skip the other three.
http://www.tor.com/2012/02/29/new-world-blues/
http://www.tor.com/2012/03/07/dormanna/
http://www.tor.com/2012/03/14/thanatos-beach/
http://www.tor.com/2012/03/21/the-woman-who-shook-the-world-tree/
http://www.tor.com/2012/03/28/the-sigma-structure-symphony/
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