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China. Chinese are willing to attack Jim in their at- tempt to find her. It seems that the Chinese have been experimenting with com- puter chips that turn human beings into modules of a


country just before Ewan’s scheduled sacrifice. When he learns of the sacrifice, Colby asks Yasser the Djinn to turn him into a wizard so he could save his friend. These things of Dreams and Shadows (hard from Harper Voyager) fourteen years later when Ewan’s lost love arrives from the Hill coun- try and the changeling seeks his revenge. This tale is a very dark view of the world of the fae but is a fascinating look at what the creatures of ancient myth might look in our real world.


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at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 839, Haddon Ave, Collingswood, NJ 08108 (at the corner of Fern and Had- don Aves.) Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and may be purchased at the door. Evening show times are 8 p.m.; Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. 856-701- 1471, www.collingswood- shakespearee.org.


computer and that com- puter plus hookups has be- come self-aware and wants the Extinction of humanity (hard from Thomas Donne books which I got from the library). After incorporating its maker and learning the techniques to create other modules, it starts growing turning leaders People’s republic into its modules. Soon Layla and her father are on the run, using every trick they can to not only survive, but also to stop this monster. This is an edge-of- the seat thriller, impossible to put down.


C. Robert Cargill has a modern tale of the fae lifted from fairy tales. The fae need a sacrifice once a year and prefer to take a human child and turn them fae by eating their food. Ewan would have lived his short eight years The changeling survived because he caused Ewan’s human mother to commit suicide. Colby Ste- ven’s was eight when he met a Djinn in the woods and wished to see every- thing supernatural. The two boys meet in the Hill


Ian Douglas continues his star carrier series twenty years after the last trilogy ended in a truce between humanity and other alien species. Something new is coming and the Sh’daar group wants to destroy hu- manity before it has to face this new enemy from Deep Space (paper from Harper- Collins Publishers). At the same time the European heads of the Confederation want control of the United States of North America and Alexander Koenig, the former Navy commander, now President of the USNA has to find a way for his nation to survive. As usual, exciting space warfare dominates the tale. This, however, is a set up for the next book which will have humanity and alien species facing a far-advanced tech- nologic species. Fun and I can wait for what happens next.


I’ve been enjoying Laura Resnick’s tales of actress Esther Diamond, an actress with no supernatural pow- ers whose various jobs put her into danger from the supernatural. She works with Manhattan’s resident mage, Dr. Maximillian Zad- ok who, because of alchemic potion that no one has been able to duplicate looks only


seventy but is 350 years old. Probably the worst place for a secular Jew to work is at a huge department store Christmas display. The one at Fenster & Co takes up a whole floor and has a sing- ing tree and a Karaoke bear that attack her at the same time that Detective Lopez, Esther’s former almost- boyfriend is investigating heists of Fenster’s trucks. It doesn’t help that other seasonal employees are dis- appearing with no explana- tion. So it’s a case of Polter- heist (paper from DAW that I bought electronically) with demons and gothic witches. I find this series addict- ing and impossible to read without a giggle or three. Ellen Datlow and Terri


Wilding have collected Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells (trade from Tor) filled with all new steam punk tales from major authors. Nebula nomineers in-


clude: Throne of the Cres- cent Moon, Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz ’13); Iron- skin, Tina Connolly (Tor); The Killing Moon, N.K. Je- misin (Orbit US; Orbit UK); The Drowning Girl, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc); and Glam- our in Glass, Mary Robi- nette Kowal (Tor). and 2312, Kim Stanley Robinson (Or- bit US; Orbit UK).


The Science Fiction Society will have its next meeting on April 12th at 8 p.m. at International House at 37th and Chestnut Streets. Gor- don Van Gelder, editor and publisher of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fic- tion will speak. As usual guests are welcome. Dr. Henry Lazarus is a lo- cal Dentist and the author of A Cycle of Gods (Wolfsinger Publications) and Unnatu- rally Female (Smashwords)


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Shakespeare’s earliest, funniest comedies about two young gentlemen and their vain, gossipy associates – and the dog who (sort of) loves them.


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presented by Shakespeare in 1594, is the Bard’s third comedy, after the Comedy of Errors and the Taming of the Shrew. Set in Verona and Milan, Italy, it is the story of two young gentle- men, Valentine and Proteus (played by Kris Varga and


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In addition to the love- triangle, a former lover, Julia (Iraisa Ann Reilly), also becomes involved and disguises herself in order to find her mate. Ironically, it as a result of her disguise that her lover is able to see—if only briefly—her true gifts and beauty. Performances will be held


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