HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
Deep Magic
Set in Britain in AD 132, the second book in Nash’s Druids of Avalon series describes the struggle of a…
Terra Incognita
This is the second installment in the trials and tribulations of our memorable hero, Medicus Gaius Petreius Ruso, a Gaul…
Christ the Lord:The Road to Cana
The saga of Anne Rice—from lush pseudonymic S&M erotica, through vampires and witches given flesh-and-blood reality we common mortals never…
The Messiah
Author Marek Halter was born in Warsaw and at age five crawled with his family through the sewers to escape…
Mary of Nazareth
When Herod’s mercenaries make one of their nighttime raids on Nazareth, quick-thinking young Miriam—later renamed Mary by census officials—helps the…
Age of Bronze, Volume 3: Betrayal, Part One
Graphic used to mean a novel of Lady Chatterley’s ilk, but now it means what geriatric me calls a comic.…
The Sword of Revenge
Editors' choice
This is the second of a trilogy set in the Roman Republic during the period before Julius Caesar. The first…
Lavinia
Editors' choice
I’ve always wished I could write Ms. Le Guin’s lucid prose. In so few words she can create a world…
Counting the Stars
Ancient Rome in the late Republic was an unsettled place: violence, corruption and murder were a tangible part of the…
The Triumph of Deborah
It’s the early Iron Age, and the Hebrews, surrounded by enemies, struggle to survive in the Promised Land. Judge and…
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