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Burning Man, the xeric bac-
chanal held annually in Nevada,
turned 25 last year. Improbably
surviving its early years, the
counter-cultural art festival and
social experiment overcame the
legal and logistical challenges of
its tumultuous teens and has fi-
nally matured into relative tran-
quility. But, like any modern
twenty-something might ask in
an introspective moment – I’ve
arrived, but so what?
Steven Jones tackles this
question is his book, The Tribes
of Burning Man. Jones doesn’t
hide his belief – and hope – that
the event is changing the Ameri-
can counterculture. Don’t worry
if you’ve never been; Jones gives
a thorough description of daily
life on the playa. The meat of
the book, however, is a year-by-
year look at the event from 2004
through 2010. He chronicles the
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
A Hard Day’s Knight
By Simon R. Green
Ace, $25.95, 304 pages
John Taylor is a private eye in the Night-
side, the dark flipside of London where gods,
sinners, miscreants, and fugitives from time
and fantasy roam free beyond the prying
eyes of the real world. Taylor has a super-
natural gift for locating things, for better or
for worse, and this has made him infamous
even in the Nightside, where myths and
monsters are commonplace.
Destiny has come
calling once more for
John Taylor, in the
form of the legendary
blade Excalibur, deliv-
ered to him through
the mail. Between his
new job as the Voice
of the Authorities and
the dangerous mystery
of the blade, enemies
new and old surround
Taylor on all sides, des-
perate to take what’s
his, be it the sword or
his life.
And where there’s one Arthurian legend,
others can’t be far behind ...
The eleventh (and supposedly, penulti-
mate) book in the Nightside series, A Hard
Day’s Knight gleefully dives headlong into
the story of King Arthur and Merlin, where
previously the series merely dabbled. Green
deftly mixes centuries of historical myth
with his own trademark twisted variations
to weave an engaging story, full of dark hu-
mor and surprises. Green has pulled out all
the stops for this one.
Reviewed by Glenn Dallas
Star Wars: Red Harvest
By Joe Schreiber
LucasBooks, $27.00, 288 pages
The Sith Academy on Odacer-Faustin
is among the most imposing and demand-
ing in the galaxy, turning Force-sensitive
youngsters into diamond-hard warriors
and viciously capable monsters, trained to
seek power and destroy obstacles. As the
most promising students duel with light sa-
bers and mind games alike, the Dark Lord
Scabrous conducts horrifying experiments
in his tower, the ru-
mors of which chill
the bones of even the
hardiest students. But
when a parcel arrives
for the Dark Lord, ac-
companied by an un-
willing Jedi, the dead
will rise and the stu-
dents will face their
ultimate challenge...
Red Harvest is the sequel-in-spirit to Sch-
reiber’s hit horror novel Death Troopers, and
he brings the same gusto and grotesque joy
to the Star Wars universe. It’s rare to see
zombies battling such vicious and powerful
adversaries, and seeing the Sith students
under siege was a treat. Plus, these aren’t
your run-of-the-mill undead, so the playing
field is more even than expected.
There are a few “good guys” thrown in,
but honestly, they’re unnecessary (emotion-
ally, not narratively), and I wish Schreiber
had had the confidence to go with only the
Sith students for protagonists. Nonetheless,
it’s a fun, occasionally disgusting, and
generally effective read.
The King of the Elves
By Philip K. Dick
Subterranean Press, $40.00,
471 pages
Step into a whole other plane of
existence, where Mozart symphonies
are transformed into living breath-
ing animals. Where the brain of an
elderly professor becomes the central
control system of a cutting-edge space
warship. Where
a luckless man
finds himself in the
middle of a million-
year-old war between
... spiders and ants?
Enter the world of
Philip K. Dick, sci-fi
writer extraordinaire and creator of a hun-
dred different unexpected surprises.
The King of the Elves is the first install-
ment of a five-volume series featuring the
collected works of Philip K. Dick. Written
between 1947 and 1952, the premise of war
is the central theme of the writer’s work,
often providing a background to the explo-
ration of the amorphous nature of reality,
time, and even humanity itself. From the
imprisonment of a Martian city within a
paperweight in The Crystal Crypt, to a whole
garrison of soldiers in Piper In The Woods,
who refuse to continue working after be-
coming inexplicably convinced that they
are now plants, Dick provides a unique, un-
expected, and often bizarre viewpoint of a
variety of worlds that are refreshingly dif-
ferent — yet hauntingly familiar — to our
own. Highly recommended for any sci-fi
fan!
Reviewed by Heather Ortiz
The Way of Kings
By Brandon Sanderson
Tor, $27.99, 1008 pages
During his teenage years, when Brandon Sanderson
was in college working on his writing and looking to
make it as an author, in the back of his mind a story idea
formed and began to germinate and develop and become
more and more complex. Over a decade later, with Sand-
erson firmly established as one of the most important,
best selling fantasy writers being published today, he
has now turned that idea that was a dream into a real-
ity in The Way of Kings, the first book of the “Stormlight
Archive” Series. Epic fantasy story aside, the book itself
is a work of art: beautiful maps on the inside covers, further maps, illustrations and
drawings throughout the lengthy book for each story; illustrations for each chapter
title; and a captivating cover by artist Michael Whelan. Another part of the dream-
come-true for Sanderson is the permission of the publisher, Tor, to publish a book
weighing in at over a thousand pages—an indication that Tor has full confidence in
the book and in Sanderson.
Sanderson begins the book with the important history of this world. Long ago,
there was a mighty war between the Voidbringers and the knights known as Radi-
ants, who used a special kind of armor known as Shardplates and their weapons were
the unstoppable Shardblades—“A Shardblade did not cut flesh; it severed the soul
itself”—but then the Radiants turned against mankind and abandoned them, leaving
their armor and weapons. We turn to the present day, thousands of years later to the
Shattered Plains, a harsh and horrific landscape where armies battle the enemy for
domination, with the goal of securing more Shardplates and Shardblades. Then there
are the Chasmfiends, great, destructive, terrifying beasts that they also fight to kill,
for deep within their crustacean bodies lie priceless gemhearts.
Our story focuses on two characters. Kaladin is a young man in his twenties who
has seen much of life already. Raised by his surgeon father to become a brilliant doc-
tor, he instead turns to the life of a warrior, with hopes of getting his hands on a
Shardblade, and soon sees his fair share of death and bloodshed. Now he is a slave,
for reasons unknown, with little to hope for in life. He soon becomes a member of the
bridge crew, a group of slaves whose job it is to carry a giant, heavy bridge across great
distances and to lay it across the chasms to allow the soldiers to cross and attack the
enemy. Kaladin becomes part of bridge team four, which is renowned for losing the
most lives each time it races into battle. Kaladin finds luck on his side, as he manages
to continue to survive, and then chooses to work for his team, train them, create sur-
vival tactics for them, and he discovers something he thought he’d lost for good: hope
and his will to live. Then there is Shallan, a young woman whose family has fallen on
hard times after the death of their father. The family is in possession of a Soulcaster,
a unique magical device that can create just about anything out of nothing, only now
it is broken. However, Shallan has a plan: to become the ward and student of Jasnah
Kolin, sister of King Elhokar of Althekar, with plans to replace Jasnah’s Soulcaster
with her own; her only problem is she has no idea how to use it.
While a thousand pages may have been a little too much for Sanderson to tell the
stories he wanted to tell in this first volume of the projected ten-book series, as some
story lines drag a little before something happens, Sanderson has nevertheless done
what he does best: created a truly unique fantasy world that at times feels as complete
and complex as our own. There is the class system of eye color, with darkeyes, who
are looked down on, and lighteyes, who are the only ones who may bear Shardblades
(though there are hints that this is not set in stone). There is the important religion
of the Vorin, which most of the known world follows, which tells of the struggle be-
tween the Voidbringers and humanity; while some other religions are hinted at; and
then there is Jasnah Kolin, an atheist decreed a heretic, who is a most unique and
fascinating character. A number of interludes throughout the book help to introduce
some minor characters to explore some more of this overwhelming world, such as
Szeth-son-son-Vallano, who is an assassin from the land of Shinovar, possessing a
unique magic to flip gravity around. And then there are the spren, which are spirits
that seem to be caused by or drawn to specific happenstances and emotions, such as
fear, pain, music, rot, and glory, to name a few. Little is known or understood about
the spren, other than that they exist, while Kaladin finds himself befriending a spe-
cific spren that seems to be evolving. One would think that much could be told in
a thousand pages, but Sanderson has barely chipped slivers off the mighty iceberg
of “The Stormlight Archive,”, but considering he has the penultimate book, Wheel of
Time, coming out soon at almost 800 pages, he has certainly proved that he can get a
lot of good-quality writing done when he needs to, so fans shouldn’t have to wait too
long before the next mighty volume in this terrific new series is released.
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Point Deception
By Jim Gilliam
Booklocker, $16.00.95, 314 pages
Point Deception opens to undercover cop
Tim Kelly’s adventure as Kelly’s life hangs
on the line in the secluded
hacienda of a Mexican car-
tel drug lord. As the story
unfolds, the reader follows
Kelly’s life back to where
it began, on the streets of
1956 New Orleans, and
moves to the Coast Guard,
which Kelly joined after ly-
ing about his age at four-
teen. Combat and deep
personal losses in Vietnam
leave Kelly scarred, causing
him to make a career move into the hardcore
world of undercover narcotics. It’s here that
his life comes full circle when he’s charged
with the mission of bringing down the drug
kingpin who largely sponsored his early,
very hungry days in New Orleans, support-
ed him through everything, and helped him
become the man he is today. When Kelly
fails to check in with his handler, a team of
Texas lawmen embark on a daring rescue
mission to save Kelly, or recover his body,
whichever occurs first, through any means
necessary.
This novel has a strict, no-frills and no-
nonsense approach to storytelling. Obvi-
ously the author draws from a deep reser-
voir of experience and the book is all the
richer for it. The creator’s comfort with
military and law enforcement jargon gives
the book a raw feel and sense of immediacy.
While the characters appear to have deep in-
ner lives and complexity, they come across
as stiff and oddly formal, perhaps due to
their career choices. If the book lacks any-
thing in style, it’s made up for in the reality
of the information presented. Overall, Point
Deception is an interesting novel that draws
its rapid-fire pace from real life scenarios
that are complex, disturbing, and touching,
making this thriller an engaging production
from a local San Francisco author.
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I’ll Walk Alone: A Novel
By Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster, $25.99, 337 pages
In this story, the author covers familiar
territory of a woman in peril. In this case,
it’s Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a beautiful
and gifted interior designer whose identity
has been stolen. The
crime goes beyond
credit card theft.
Two years before
the novel’s opening,
Moreland’s son was
kidnapped. Now, on
his fifth birthday, pic-
thew Shardlake is sent
by Queen Catherine
Parr to investigate a
wardship that one of
her old servant’s sons
said was horrific before
he committed suicide.
Just what was wrong
with the child or the
way he was being treat-
ed, he never revealed, so Shardlake is given
the task of finding out what is happening at
the Hobbey household near Portsmouth.
Shardlake is also using the trip
to investigate a more personal
case. Ellen Fettiplace, resident of
the madhouse, Bedlam, has been
there for almost 20 years with-
out ever being legally committed.
Something horrible happened
to her at Rolfswood, near Ports-
mouth, but she won’t talk about
it and her keepers are paid well to
keep mum as well.
Heartstone is a large book, filled
with many mysterious twists and
turns, completely colored by Tudor
history, and peopled with charac-
ters that are so real that you feel like you
can reach out and touch them. This reader is
in awe over Sansom’s mastery.
Reviewed by Gwen Stackler
The Mozart Conspiracy
By Scott Mariani
Touchstone, $24.99, 352 pages
I’m such a sucker for anything to do with
classical music. I really must learn some dis-
cretion. I so wanted to like this book, but it
gave me little to like. Actually, it reads as
though a film script had been novelized, but
there isn’t yet a film. You know what I mean
– fuzzy tilted shots, quick cuts, slashing
music in the background, violence and/or
conspiracy rampant. Characters here there
and everywhere, some
you never see again,
which can be a major
blessing. This is espe-
cially good for those
you didn’t want to see
in the first place.
Ben Hope is a for-
mer SAS officer, cold,
distant, unemotional,
and completely un-
likeable, except to
another like himself. Leigh Llewellyn, on
the other hand, is a noted operatic soprano,
and gorgeous to look at, even when she isn’t
singing. Her father, a piano technician in
Wales, once found a letter purporting to be
from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in which
he blamed a member of the Freemasons for
his imminent death. Now, her brother Oli-
ver (once Ben’s best friend) has decided to
tures surface suggesting Moreland herself
kidnapped him. Moreland knows someone
is impersonating her, taking her son, and
using her store accounts. However, every-
one else, from her vindictive ex-husband to
her dearest friends, believes she
took her own son and has been
hiding him — with criminal
intent or because of mental ill-
ness. Zan begins to doubt her
own sanity.
I found this pretty standard
Higgins Clark fare: the charac-
ters, professional-class Man-
hattanites, and the storyline
of a victimized and beautiful
woman who manages to find
love despite her baggage. The
mystery of who took her son was not diffi-
cult — I knew it was not the most obvious
suspect. However, I found the actual culprit
and that character’s motivations melodra-
matic and not believable. However, I don’t
read Higgins Clark for the mystery but
rather for the colorful characters and set-
tings — and the comfort of knowing what
I’m getting.
Reviewed by Stacia Levy
Haunt Me Still: A Novel
By Jennifer Lee Carrell
Plume, $15.00, 406 pages
Shakespearean scholar and director Kate
Stanley has built a fine reputation in the the-
atre, so when a famous actress-turned-royal
bride wishes her to stage Macbeth, Kate
pounces on it. But it seems like the curse of
the Scottish Play is at work, as Kate and her
troupe confront mysteries galore, strange
pagan rituals, and a baffling murder. Could
the curse be real, or is there a darker secret
at the heart of Shake-
speare’s most infa-
mous work? Haunt Me
Still is Carrell’s fol-
low-up to her adven-
ture-infused mystery
Interred with Their
Bones, and thankfully,
she’s pared down the
worst of those Dan
Brown-esque trap-
pings in the sequel. Haunt Me Still is more
atmospheric, preferring the ominous tones
of a murder mystery, and Carrell shifts gears
effectively.
While the plot is a bit convoluted for its
own good, Carrell efficiently vaults its few
flaws with a very engaging protagonist and
an intriguing cabal of characters, toting
secrets and motivations galore. The super-
natural trappings are interspersed nicely
with the more down-to-earth threats and
developments, and overall, Haunt Me Still is
a pleasure. I don’t know where Kate Stanley
is headed next, but I’m looking forward to
finding out.
A Pointed Death: First in the Pointer
Mystery Series
By Kath Russell
CreateSpace, $14.24, 333 pages
Russell’s junketing thriller, set in the bio-
tech ménage of San Francisco, involves the
murder of a former colleague and eventu-
ally entwines with an international bioen-
gineering espionage scheme. Be prepared
for contemporary romance and a cultural,
geographic enchiridion of the Bay Area,
but prepare yourself for a SF driving route
monologue that could have been abridged.
For t y-something,
“techno wiz” Nola Bill-
ingsley is shocked when
she finds her former, ra-
pacious accountant be-
headed on a bench at the
popular Fort Funston
dog walking area. Trying
to recover from a failed
dot.com enterprise, Nola
resumes her biotech con-
sulting business and is
quickly pulled into the
murder and the motive
behind it when she con-
nects the deceased to prospective clients.
After a strange package addressed to the
former accountant arrives in the mail, she
becomes convinced that the company that
sent it, is connected to the murder. Nola
uses her professional connections and a
consulting ruse to get inside the company
and purloin information from their com-
puter files. Along the way, she makes the ac-
quaintance of Robert Harrison, a tall, hand-
some detective, who is also recovering from
losses of his own. Nola finds that living with
Janie Belle, her plucky, church-going South-
ern mother, is not exactly conducive to ro-
mance, but her Pointer, Skootch, does make
for a dependable sleuthing companion and
accompanies her on numerous reconnoi-
ters—a practice adamantly discouraged by
her new beau.
The author—obviously determined to
expand our vocabulary—generously pep-
pers the story with unique verbiage and hu-
morous situations. The book generally has
a “chick lit” feel—our protagonist walks us
through her fashion choices and lipstick ap-
plications, but the plot has tension and the
characters have personality: a fun indulgent
picaresque for a rainy weekend.
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Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake
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By C. J. Sansom
Viking, $27.95, 634 pages
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I did not enjoy this book. It has very short
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Reviewed by Kelly Ferjutz
Bless the Bride (Molly Murphy
Mysteries)
By Rhys Bowen
Minotaur Books, $24.99, 272 pages
Previously, I’ve only read most of the
author’s Evans series and enjoyed them im-
mensely. So finding a new (to me) series was
a pleasant surprise! Even more of a surprise
was that this is the 10th book in the series!
Good grief. However, such is the author’s
skill, that even knowing
nothing of the previous
nine books, I was never at
sea plot-wise, or left won-
dering “who are these peo-
ple, anyway?”
This time around, the
heroine Molly Murphy is
about to marry a NYPD
captain, Daniel Sullivan.
He thinks she will be a
somewhat biddable bride
and give up her investi-
gative/sleuthing career.
Of course, everyone else
knows otherwise—don’t
we? Daniel’s mother is managing the wed-
ding, leaving Molly at very loose ends, when
a message arrives from a high-ranking mem-
ber of New York’s Chinatown, asking for her
skills in finding a missing object. From then
on, it’s full speed ahead!
Lee Sing Tai wants a jade pendant back,
or so he says. But really, he wants the
young woman to whom it was attached.
He’d promised her marriage, but neglected
to tell her that he already had a number
one wife. Molly quickly stumbles over the
young woman, but then discovers the truth
of the situation, about the same time as Lee
is found dead. Who did it, and why? Just in
time for the nuptials, Molly solves the case
and ties all the ends up very neatly. Can’t
wait for number eleven. First, though, I have
some catching up to do.
Reviewed by Kelly Ferjutz
Oscar Wilde and the Vampire Murders:
A Mystery
By Gyles Brandreth
Touchstone, $14.00, 369 pages
Women are dying in London and Oscar
Wilde is on the case. The victims have suspi-
ciouspuncturewoundsontheirthroats.Can
a creature of the night
be loose in Europe?
With Oscar Wilde and
the Vampire Murders,
the fourth book in the
series, author Gyles
Brandreth provides a
thrilling addition to
the historical crime
fiction genre. The
during the wildly popular anniversary cel-
ebration seems like a good idea. But Brad
quickly finds his hands full with not only
the woman he loves, but with disturbing in-
formation about a terrorist cell determined
to use the Pompeii celebration to wipe out
most of the human race.
Pohl does a remarkable job of crafting
his story in first-person perspective which
goes a long way to pulling you into the life
and times of Brad Sheridan. Unfortunately,
the beguiling use of this often-difficult-to-
write-in form doesn’t quite make up for the
numerous and puzzling plot holes and the
ambiguous rambling storyline. The book
can’t even claim a moral compass since the
debatable dilemma of whether or not the
human race should be punished for the
atrocities it commits against itself, is pre-
sented merely as a motive and is never fully
addressed by the characters.
Reviewed by Heather Ortiz
The Templar Salvation
By Raymond Khoury
Dutton, $26.95, 416 pages
The Templar Salvation is an engrossing
sequel to Khoury’s The Last Templar and
begins in the year 1203 at Constantinople
during the Fourth Crusade. While the city is
under siege, a small band of ambitious Tem-
plars enters the imperial library with the in-
tention of securing a cache of documents. If
revealed, these documents would challenge
the unity and power of the Vatican and thus
the Catholic Church. After finding sanctu-
ary in a monastery, these Templars are mur-
dered, never having learned the secrets of
the documents they stole. Fast forward to
the present day – FBI
agent Sean Reilly must
infiltrate the Vatican
Secret Archives, locat-
ed in an underground
tomb, as the life of
his lover, kidnapped
Tess Chaykin, rests on
Reilly’s success. Spe-
cifically, Reilly must
retrieve a document
known as the Fondo
Templari, a secret history of the infamous
Templars. The Templar Salvation is a well-
constructed, fast-paced page turner. Read-
ers of Khoury’s earlier novels will thrill at
this exciting sequel, but crime/mystery/
thriller aficionados new to Khoury’s story
telling will be equally captivated.
Reviewed by Christina Forsythe
story opens at a glamorous party honoring
the Princes of Wales. One guest, actor Rex
LaSalle, claims to be a vampire. The evening
ends in tragedy when the hostess is found
dead. Soon Oscar Wilde and his good friend
Arthur Conon Doyle are investigating the
crime. The main characters’ wit and humor
are featured on nearly every page. It’s as if
the reader steps right into the 1890s and
into the shoes of Oscar Wilde. Brandreth
presents the story using primary sources
– evidence that ties the case together (jour-
nal entries, newspaper articles, invitations,
letters, and telegrams). Thus the narrative
is fast-paced and highly enjoyable. The in-
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asylums for “hysterical” women, to private
audiences with royalty, and to a theater run
by Bram Stoker. Will the super-
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too late?
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A Pyer for the Night: An
Amish-Country Mystery
By P.L. Gaus
Plume, $13.00, 224 pages
For Amish youth, Rum-
schpringe is a rite of passage
during which they can experi-
ence the freedom of the outside
world before fully committing
to an Amish life. The teens ex-
periment with modern life to
test the English world and come to their
faith through sacrifice and devotion after
knowing what the outside world has to of-
fer. In P.L. Gaus’ newest Amish-Country
Mystery, A Prayer for the Night, a group of
wild teens take Rumschpringe too far. It
ends in murder.
Series regulars Professor Branden, Sher-
iff Robertson, and Pastor Troyer take the
case after Sara Yoder, a member of the teen
group, asks for help. Soon she disappears.
Branden finds evidence linking the youth
to a ruthless drug ring operating within the
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Eve (Eve Duncan)
By Iris Johansen
St. Martin’s Press, $27.99, 384 pages
The latest book in the series featuring
Eve was another great addition. If you are a
fan of the series, you definitely do not want
to miss this one. The
reader gets to learn
more about Eve’s past
and what type of man
fathered Bonnie. John
Gallo was such a con-
tradictory character
who had both a scary,
cold blooded killer
side and yet a sweet,
protective side. He constantly kept Eve, the
other characters, and the reader off balance
wondering which side of Gallo will prevail.
Could he really be crazy enough to have
killed his own daughter?
The wonderful thing about Johansen’s
books are that even if you have not been
reading this series from the beginning you
can still jump in an become engrossed in
the story. This is only the second book I have
read but I already feel connected to each of
the characters and the anticipation of find-
ing Bonnie’s killer will keep the reader on
the edge of their seat. This book will leave
you clamoring to read more.
Reviewed by Debbie Suzuki
Phantom Evil
By Heather Graham
Mira, $24.95, 361 pages
In this novel, the wife of prominent state
senator David Holloway falls to her death
at her mansion in the picturesque French
Quarter of New Orleans. Having lost her
son in a car accident six months before,
she is initially thought to have committed
suicide. However, paranormal investigator
Adam Harrison has other ideas and calls in
a team of “ghost busters,” headed by skep-
tic, part-Cheyenne
Jackson Crowe, who
is haunted by his own
very real demons.
The team moves
into the New Orleans
mansion, which has
a history of ghost
sightings, and it’s not
long before a body is
unearthed, and the
voodoo priest grand-
mother of one of the team called in. Both ra-
tional and irrational forces are addressed as
causes to Regina Holloway’s death: Did she
leap from her balcony or was she pushed,
either by a ghost or one of her husband’s
political enemies, “real monster” white su-
premacists? Or, was it one of his assistants
or a member of a local cult?
Although the scenes featuring one of the
team, Angela Hawkins, who can see past
inhabitants of the house including its homi-
cidal Reconstruction-era owner, are exag-
gerated and unbelievable, the mystery and
New Orleans’ color are compelling.
Reviewed by Stacia Levy
All the Lives He Led: A Novel
By Frederik Pohl
Tor Books, $25.99,
347 pages
It’s 2079, and the
ancient city of Pom-
peii is now a massive
theme park, getting
ready to cash in on
the two-thousand
year anniversary of
the eruption of Mt.
Vesuvius. Brad Sheridan is indentured, flee-
ing from the poverty-stricken streets of an
America that has been all but obliterated by
Mother Nature. At first, working at Pompeii
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It’s probably too early to assess Burning
Man’s impact on American culture. History,
like a cynical grandparent, will decide if the
event ever amounts to anything. The Tribes
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