Brian M. Thomsen
Birth date: April 13, 1959
Died: September 21, 2008
Brian M. Thomsen's Books
The short story anthology Legends edited by Margaret Weis, the first collection of the Tales from the Eternal Archives, contains almost twenty stories of near above average quality loosing connected to one another through a mystical library, titular Eternal Archives. Although the majority of the ni...
The Further Adventures of Beowulf does what it says on the cover. The book starts off with an interesting introduction discussing the legacy of the Beowulf text and Middle-Earth. This is followed by 'The Deeds of Beowulf' translated into prose by John Earle in 1892. This prose version is rather o...
Some good and some middling stories in this set of stories about people who were famous and what if they took different paths in their lives. Interesting but sometimes I think they tried too hard.
Hmmm, 3.5-4, only because the Drizzt Do'Urden and Liriel Baenre stories saved it for me.The other stories felt a bit weak. Probably because there wasn't much time to develop the characters and the overall details of everything else. Although there was one other short story that caught me in the end ...
Saw this and said, "oh, horror anthology, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, I'll check it out."The theme of the book is that the "monsters" are actually the good guys, or at least sympathetic to some degree, so it's not really a very 'horrific' book.Some of the stories are OK, some really n...