Fuldapocalypse Presents: A Thousand Words

So I’ve decided to expand Fuldapocalypse into occasional reviews of visual media (movies, games, etc..) So what better topic for the first installment than Dr. Strangelove?

Northern Fury reviewed on Sea Lion Press

This is considerably after the fact, but I figured I’d point it out anyway: Northern Fury: H Hour got an excellent review on Sea Lion Press.

As a partial aside, I’ve said it elsewhere but I’ll say it here-I have a renewed willingness to read and review “traditional” World War III stories. Part of that is quality books in the genre like Team Yankee, Red Army, and yes, Northern Fury: H Hour.

Fuldapocalypse Anniversary-Out Of The Ashes

Fuldapocalypse’s first anniversary is this month. The planned reviews to celebrate that include the promised The Sum Of All Fears, plus some more actual World War III (imagine that) novels. However, I also felt that the best and most fitting place to start was at the very bottom.

So I thus reviewed William W. Johnstone’s Out Of The Ashes, the inaugural installment in what could quite possibly be the worst sustained series made by a mainstream author/publisher.

Skeleton Coast reviewed on Fuldapocalypse

So, I’ve finally reviewed Clive Cussler’s Skeleton Coast on Fuldapocalypse.

Cussler was one of my favorite authors growing up, and the first real cheap thriller author I read in bulk. I read lots of Cussler’s (even if, by this point in his career, most of the actual work was done by other people), and a book review is long overdue. So why not choose one of the most memorable?

Fuldapocalypse Snippet Reviews

I decided that the best way to square the circle between “I want people to know about this obscure book” and “This book doesn’t seem like the type that can sustain a long review” is to just make the individual reviews shorter and bundle them in a “snippet review” collection.

The first such installment of reviews on Fuldapocalypse is here.

Review Cravings

My latest Fuldapocalypse “craving” was thrillers written in the 2000s. As it was not a good decade for that genre (for reasons I’ve explained before and might explain again), why did I go there? It didn’t feel like I wanted a change of pace, as they were stylistically similar in large part to what I’d been reading before and after.

My review craving for low-list 2000s thrillers was probably because I wanted to see “were any worthwhile?” and “if they were bad, how were they bad?” And the answer can be seen in the reviews themselves.

100 Fuldapocalypse Posts

Fuldapocalypse Fiction has reached a hundred posts, and I’ve decided to commemorate it with a special post.

It’s been amazing to have this review blog. Really, really amazing.

Worm Reviewed on Fuldapocalypse

Never thought I’d be reviewing a superhero web serial on Fuldapocalypse, but I figured I’d review Worm , the web serial that found an excited audience on Spacebattles.

It’s a hard story to review, but I tried my best.

X-Wing Series Reviewed at Fuldapocalypse

So for the newest Fuldapocalypse review, I review Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston’s X-Wing series . These were some of my favorite Star Wars books as a kid, and I’m delighted to be reviewing them.

No Number Scales

I simply don’t like reviewing on a number scale.

How can a number scale take a seriously flawed but seriously enjoyable story into account? Both an overambitious but slightly lacking book and an unambitious but fun potboiler can be considered “mixed” but in totally different ways. That’s just one example why I don’t want to review on a number scale.