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%T The Undesired Princess & The Enchanted Bunny
%A L. Sprague DeCamp & David Drake
%I Baen
%D May 1990
%O paperback, US$3.95
%P 263
%G 0-671-69875-3
This package marries about 3/4s 1950-vintage humorous fantasy by L.
Sprague deCamp to 1/4 `tribute' in the same style by David Drake. No
points for guessing which one is worth taking home and keeping.
%T The Honorable Barbarian
%A L. Sprague DeCamp
%I Del Rey
%D May 1990
%O paperback, US$4.95
%P 201
%G 0-345-36652-2
This sequel to The Unbeheaded King is more of the expected
from deCamp; a gentle, funny, spoofy fantasy that pokes ironic fun at the
conventions of the genre. This time it's Jorian's kid brother Kerin that's up
to his ears in trouble thanks to hot-blooded Princess Adeliza and a comedy of
increasing errors. I give it the Raymond's Reviews Rubber Ducky award for
Superior Bathtub-And-Bedtime reading. Enjoy!
%S Robots and Aliens Alliance
%T Alliance
%V #4
%A Jerry Oltion
%I Berkeley/Ace
%D May 1990
%O paperback, US$3.95
%P 168
%G 0-441-73130-9
Jerry Oltion has written good stuff for Analog in the
past, but I found this series installment unreadable. I don't think
that's his fault; the problem is that the series is relentlessly
juvenile and `cute' and the premises has stellar-sized holes in
them. Your kids (assuming you have some and they aren't into adult SF
already) might like it.
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