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In the current economic climate, many people are tightening their belts and becoming increasingly concerned about their loved ones at home. Others just want the peace of mind from knowing their homes are alarmed against unknown visitors. There might even be a few folks who want to prepare for the rumored upcoming zombie apocalypse. In all of these cases, installing a basic home alarm system is a good initial step to take. There . . . → Read More: Review: Defender Wireless Driveway Alert System 
A Kingdom Strange by James Horn Colonizing a new land, whether on another planet or even just across an ocean, can be perilous work—obstacles are often insurmountable and constant danger close. We also dream of colonizing other planets in our fiction, but we actually just have to look to our past to witness how difficult this task truly was. Indeed, lest we get too complacent about the luxuries and comfort we all take . . . → Read More: Review: A Kingdom Strange by James Horn 
Does the world need another vampire novel? I would say, yes, of course, especially if that novel is well written and adds something new or compelling to the literary conversation about vampires, a conversation that authors and readers have been having since 1872 with Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla.” In Children of the Night, Hugo award-winning author Dan Simmons makes a solid contribution to the ongoing vampire mythology by giving us not only . . . → Read More: Review: Children of the Night, by Dan Simmons 
Half dark fiction, half academic musings on angels, demons, the dead, and monsters, Dark Awakenings, by Matt Cardin, is an exploration of the common religious goals of transcendence, rebirth, and salvation. So what makes this exploration dark? Cardin’s twist of the knife comes from the enlightened observation that these sorts of religious ideals may have tragic, dire, or even horrific consequences if actually realized. What if the path the pious have been . . . → Read More: Review: Dark Awakenings, by Matt Cardin 
I’ve been looking for a good portable external speaker for my laptop for quite some time. I thought I had found the answer in the Logitech USB 305 Laptop Speaker Z305 (see my review of the Logitech Z305 speaker here), but when that Logitech speaker died just after using it for two months, I decided to invest in something of higher quality. So when I found the Soundmatters foxLv2 Bluetooth . . . → Read More: Review: Soundmatters foxLv2 portable speaker |
 
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