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I received this book with my regular subscription and thought it would take a month or so to read on the bus. Well, I recently switched from contract to employee and the company decided to delete all my computer access.

Fortunately, for James, Death's Heretic was in my laptop bag and while waiting for HR to decide that I should be paid for working rather than reading, I finished the book.

The book is a multi-planal whodunit. For a newer writer, James did an exemplary job at getting me to care about Salim. Neila never really did compel me, but she never really annoyed me. Other than an odd scene in a very dark cell, I voraciously read through the entire story and enjoyed it all.

Good Job James. I look forward to your further offerings. I would happily read future or past adventures of Salim.

The Planet Killers has three of Robert Silverburg's early offerings. The first story is The Plot Against the Earth. It was an enjoyable space opera jaunt.

The Planet Killers is definitely the best of the three in the book. Space Opera with ethical dilemmas. I enjoyed it right until it went about 2-3 pages further than was needed.

I recently finished the last story One of our Asteroids is Missing. It started out awkwardly and a little slow. Once our hero got back to the "missing" asteroid the story became fun again and helped finish off the book well.

I read through this book and it took a long time. It's definitely a slow read. I enjoyed the previous offering of Radovan and Jeggare, but this one never pushed over the top. As others have mentioned the constant shifting of first person narrative is distracting and annoying. Especially with the introduction of a third, almost silly narrative.

The oddest thing though was it took me a really long time to read this book. I read most of my books to and from work on Tempe buses. When I get close to my stop, I look and was always several pages short of where I would have expected to be.

This is the type of writing I subscribed to Planet Stories for. We have seven stories published in pulp mags in the late 1950s. Several of these are available (although possibly abridged) in the 1972 Dell Paperback Valley Beyond Time. All seven are typical space opera/odyssey with different general plots. I definitely enjoyed the ending of Spacerogue. Several stories were hampered (hence the 4 instead of 5 stars) by the typical problem of short stories that you build up, get development and then quickly finish the story.

Thank you Paizo for returning to the roots of Planet Stories. The first story introduces us to Hok the Mighty is an enjoyable Wellman product. Although the introductory story was not as good as the rest of the stories, the latter stories make up for it. I actually think the first story has aged poorly due to different morals and ethics now. There are footnotes throughout the stories. They generally reflect the anthropology of the time including one commenting on Piltdown man before it was discovered to be a forgery.

The stories follow the Flint People in general (and Hok the Mighty) in particular. Reading through the stories have anachronistic aspects. He often uses metaphors and analogies that would be familiar to his audience, but look odd when compared to modern views.

I have read all of the Planet Stories offerings so far. This one is by far the worst. Several of the offerings (Bova, Niven) were readable. Many were just horrible (to be polite). This is one of those things that seems like a good idea, but I really don't want to read any writers' offerings when they really were not very good. If you do another one of these, I will be tempted to do a skip on my subscription to avoid such horrible writing.

I like these multi-dice and ordered the full set. Using them has one major issue. It is hard to read the second die without disturbing it. This is really only an effect on these d20s. The d6s, d10s and d12s are legible.

I always find it interesting on how fast I read through certain books. I roared through Asimov's Foundation trilogy and all Douglas Adams' books. However, it took me forever to read through Le Mort d'Arthur.

I now do most of my reading on the way to and from work on buses in Tempe. I started reading this on March 11, 2010 and finished it on April 30, 2010. Sos the Rope (the following book) took only 6 days to read while only being half the length.

Silver John is a great character and it is interesting to read through his character development in the book, especially due to the fact that he did not age in the stories, but there were several decades between the first and the last in the book.

Both were great. Thank you Paizo.

These fit my fairly large (size 10ish) feet. If your feet are much larger they (your feet, not the slippers) probably need alteration. Other than that, they are absolutely great. Walking around work on a Saturday in these does generate commentary.

I warn anyone who brings this to work is that you will find that most of your fellow employees enjoy shredding Black Knights despite their invincibility. And the one negative for this defender of all that is evil and unholy is that it is not easy to get his arms and legs reattached as you would like before your next volley of holy workers desecrates his body.

The Velcro works well, but you have to spend a bit of time getting everything (legs, arms, etc) pointing in reasonable directions.

I could care less if he talked, I just wished the velcro was more easily workable.

Come back you coward!

I have most of the Map Packs and this is the one I use the absolute most. Even, if it gets a little repetitive for the players, it is nice to have a small battle map for those encounters while most of the party sleeps. I agree that thicker would be better, but I am very happy with the product I have. A second set of different campsites would be great as well.