Ghosts of the Multiverse

• Release Date: 12/21/2013

By Harald Hansen
Harald Hansen $5.99 420 pages

Jeremy Fade is a successful engineer turned unsuccessful software salesman after making a lateral move within his company in the hopes of making more money. The good part of that, for a character in a novel, is that author Harald Hansen has the opportunity to put Fade in interesting places, such as universities, where he can have interesting conversations with interesting people who say interesting things. For instance, this light-hearted observation about modern American culture: “Ah ha!” said Ahbed. “The new form of American puritanism. You want the sex in your culture, but simultaneously don’t want …

The Orb of Truth

• Release Date: 11/17/2012

By Brae Wyckoff
LR Publishing $12.99 242 pages

The Orb of Truth came as rather a pleasant surprise. To be strictly truthful, the whole adventure fantasy genre has been one avoided ever since the professor in a long-ago course in Chaucer warned his class that J.R.R. Tolkien should be avoided as he wrote ‘fake English mythology.’ It was decades later that a friend said, “But isn’t mythology supposed to be fake?” It’s a pretty good counter-argument, you must admit.

Fans of Tolkien or Terry Brooks, those readers who enjoy the quests of little forest-like creatures accompanied by dwarves and such fighting off completely evil shape-shifting …