On Greg Keyes's The Infernal City (2009), the first Elder Scrolls franchise novel, which follows the arrival of a floating city in the skies of Tamriel—and all the havoc it wreaks!
Tag: Genre: Franchise Fiction
Star Wars: Reading “Heir to the Empire” by Timothy Zahn (Thrawn 1)
On Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire, the first novel in his acclaimed Thrawn trilogy, which relaunched Star Wars franchise fiction after a half-decade hiatus.
Star Wars: Reading “Queen’s Hope” by E.K. Johnston (Queen Trilogy 3)
On E.K. Johnston's Queen's Hope, the third and final novel in a YA trilogy that recovers the story of Padmé for a feminist-minded audience, follows the senator's journey in the immediate aftermath of Attack of the Clones.
Star Wars: Reading “Queen’s Peril” by E.K. Johnston (Queen Trilogy 2)
On E.K. Johnston's Queen's Peril, the second novel in a YA trilogy that recovers the story of Padmé for a feminist-minded audience and retells portions of The Phantom Menace from the Queen's perspective.
Star Wars: Reading “Queen’s Shadow” by E.K. Johnston (Queen Trilogy 1)
On E.K. Johnston's Queen's Shadow, the first novel in a YA trilogy that recovers the story of Padmé for a feminist-minded audience and wrestles with the state of democracy.
Dungeons & Dragons: Reading “The Halfling’s Gem” by R.A. Salvatore (Icewind Dale 3)
The third essay in my D&D reading series, which looks at R.A. Salvatore's The Halfling's Gem (1990), a novel about friendship, racial prejudice, and saving your halfling buddy from his own past.
Dungeons & Dragons: Reading “Streams of Silver” by R.A. Salvatore (Icewind Dale 2)
The second essay in my D&D reading series, which looks at R.A. Salvatore's Streams of Silver (1989), a novel about the quest for Mithril Hall and the limits of liberal values of tolerance.
Dungeons & Dragons: Reading “The Crystal Shard” by R.A. Salvatore (Icewind Dale 1)
The first essay in my D&D reading series, which looks at R.A. Salvatore's The Crystal Shard (1988), the groundbreaking novel that introduced nerds everywhere to the drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden.
Reading “Shadowdale” by Richard Awlinson [Scott Ciencin] (Forgotten Realms / Avatar 1)
The Forgotten Realms novel Shadowdale marks the beginning of a major event in the franchise's storyworld and, despite it being somewhat of an eye-rolling chore to read, it offers some promising elements for the rest of the series.
Reading “Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey” by Gordon Doherty
Gordon Doherty's novelization of the Assassin's Creed: Odyssey video game wonderfully demonstrates everything aesthetically and narratively wrong with so much franchise fiction.
