Dik Browne, the creator of two award-winning comic strips, “Hagar the Horrible” and “Hi and Lois,” has died of cancer at age 71 in Florida. He died Sunday at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, the New York-based King Features Syndicate announced Monday. King Features, which distri...
Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga adventure The Vor Game (1990). The sixth installment in the Vorkosigan Saga (1986–ongoing) is a fun one. Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of most of the series, is the brilliant, driven scion of an aristocratic family from the feudalistic, swords’...
An associate of the Kray twins, he masqueraded as a successful entrepreneur, made and lost several fortunes, and was twice imprisoned for fraud. Philip Roth has called A Perfect Spy“the best English novel since the war.” * Brian Jacques’s Redwall talking-animal adventure Redwall. When ...