So then, whats been happening here?
Obviously, it has been a while since I last posted anything on the site, almost exactly a year.
To be honest, what has been happening lately is that I've been incredibly busy doing other things. Not a great excuse I know, but thats the way it is.
Ok, this site has been offline for some time because some nasty radical middle eastern types decided that my site was a good place to air their grievances with the west and totally defaced my site.
To be honest, I hadn't secured the place properly and I learnt a couple of things from the episode, so hopefully I've made this one a little more secure.
That's not a challenge by the way. I'm quite happy with the site as it is and I'd really prefer to keep it this way.
A century after the heroic defence of Dros Delnoch, the people of the Drenai face a new terror - a mad emperor kept in power by the Joinings, werebeasts of awesome power, and the Dark Templars, priests of Darkness and warriors without equal: two forces of unsurpassed evil.
One man, an outsider hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood, and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry, sets out to destroy the emperor. He is one man against the armies of Chaos.
He is Tenaka Khan - the Prince of Shadows.
The Legend
Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a moutain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with the snow leopards and awaited his old enemy death.
The Fortress
He lives a lie, but posts the truth.
He's a hiring partner at one of the worlds largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before midnight or steal candy from the bowl on his secretaries desk. He hates holidays and paralegals. And he's just started posting an internet blog to tell the world about what life is really like at the top of his profession.
The GP2X is a handheld device which runs the Linux operating system and is aimed at homebrew developers and programs which emulate various retro games consoles.
They are called The Dreamers. They look like sleeping children. They are, in fact, Gods.
There are eight elder Gods, four awake, four asleep, by turns. When they sleep, they sleep for eons. The only time the Gods are vulnerable is when the sleepers awake.
Knowing this, the Ruler of the Wasteland, ambitious to become a god by destroying gods, watches and waits, marshalling troops for war. So it is that the coming of the Dreamers passes unnoticed in the wasteland. But the world is soon out of kilter, it is being dreamed, and the awakening of Gods is no simple transition.
It is set to be the greatest bounty hunt in history...
Fifteen names.
There are fifteen targets, the finest warriors in the world - commandos, spies, terrorists. And they all must be dead by twelve noon today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each.
One hero.
Among the names on the list, one stands out. An enigmatic marine named Shane Schofield, call sign SCARECROW.
No limits.
Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical that even their mother can't tell them apart. Then tragedy strikes: a vicious attack leaves one twin dead and the other so traumatised that she turns totally inward, incapable of telling anybody what happened or even who she is. She remains lost to the world, until the day Mark, a family friend, comes to visit - and the young woman utters her first intelligible word.
Now I would ordinarily not even think about reviewing childrens books, since I am supposed to be the rough tough Aussie living in a gentle village in Northumberland, which puts me slightly out of place for kids books. However, nearly a year ago something magical happened which ended up presenting me with a baby son and a pressing need to introduce him to decent literature. Its my firmest belief that the literacy problem encountered these days caused by parents not finding books early on which tickle the childs imagination.
