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Christian Fiction, Essays, and Media Reviews by Bruce Burns

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February 11, 2015 Fiction Book Reviews

Beautiful Features

For the sake of variety I picked up the Audible version of Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.  I

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December 30, 2014 Book Review / Essays / Fiction Book Reviews

Royal Yamato Continuation

I have compared indie sci-fi author Christopher Nuttall’s Ark Royal series to the beloved anime Space Battleship Yamato (which was released in North

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October 4, 2014 Essays / Fiction Book Reviews / Television reviews

The Walking Battlestar Galactica:

I love a good Apocalypse, not so much because I want to watch the world burn down (though the CNN

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June 3, 2014 Fiction Book Reviews / Novels

Some Skin in the Game

Jim Butcher’s Skin Game is the latest offering in his urban fantasy series The Dresden Files.  This writing success story (Butcher went

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April 1, 2014 Fiction Book Reviews / Novels

Monster Hunter Alpha: A Fuzzy Fractal

Thanks to a white-out level blizzard this fine Minnesota spring that has shut down the critical highway (I’m going to

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March 28, 2014 Fiction Book Reviews / Novels

The Jongurian Mission

I spent some time this week reading The Jongurian Mission, the first book in a trilogy by Greg Strandberg. I

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March 4, 2014 Movie Reviews

Non-Stop Awesome

Liam Neeson’s latest offering, Non-Stop, stands at the top of the box office numbers for a reason.  This suspense-action drama

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February 13, 2014 Television reviews

Almost Human

The Fox channel’s series Almost Human continues to be one of this year’s surprise delights, and remains a regular highlight

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February 7, 2014 Fiction Book Reviews / Novels

Spelunking for Svartelves

I have read The Emperor’s Edge by Lindsay Buroker in October, and liked it enough to review it and give

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January 24, 2014 Essays

Gods, Laws, and Manpower

I’m re-reading The Song of Ice and Fire series by Martin since I plan to be back to my Song

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