Dominion
In Dominion, two or more players spend money to purchase victory points. This is a card drafting game in which you purchase cards that give you abilities to draft more cards, make more money, and get...
View Article7 Wonders Game
Four or more players gather together to try and build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Each player picks a different civilization and wins through strategies like military might or...
View ArticleMunchkin Deluxe
Munchkin Deluxe is fun with just two players, but once you get more than that, it's outrageous! This is the game where you find out who your true friends are or who would sic an even bigger monster...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Patton Oswalt
In celebration of Geek Week, Powells.com presents a special Dungeons and Dragons–themed Q&A with Patton Oswalt. What's the most epic character you've ever created? A half-orc assassin named Ulvaak...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: R. A. Salvatore
Describe your latest works. I have two Forgotten Realms novels coming out this year, along with a graphic novel about a relevant side story. The first book, The Last Threshold, was just released in...
View ArticleDominion Card Game
I love this game. I have been a gamer my entire life and I highly recommend Dominion. It has a good combination of things going for it: It's easy to play. Every time you play, it plays differently...
View ArticleSlayer of Krakens
A critical feature of League of Somebodies is the prevalence of outlandish tests of manhood, feats of intellectual and physical strength that hinder the main character, Lenard Sikophsky, and his future...
View ArticleThe Sadness of Stooges
What is it that impels the phenomenon of the sidekick? In the comic book world in particular, since the 1950s mostly, when the United States was wrestling with communism and moral decadence as the '60s...
View ArticleThe Forever War
I've been reading a lot of sci-fi lately, and right now I'm on The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. At its core, it's an indictment of the Vietnam War from the soldiers' perspective, similar to Heinleins'...
View ArticleLeviathan Wakes
I grew up reading classic science fiction — science fiction that included science. Leviathan Wakes is in that same vein. Set the day after the day after tomorrow, when mankind has finally freed itself...
View ArticleA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
One of the defining classics of the genre, A Wizard of Earthsea has something for fantasy fans and lovers of language alike. Le Guin's prose is beautiful without being overwrought, and Earthsea — a...
View ArticleMaddAddam
In the powerful finale to her too-close-for-comfort dystopian/apocalyptic trilogy (following the mind-blowingly awesome Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood), Atwood leaves us with an epic tale...
View ArticleThe Lies of Locke Lamora
Scads of witty dialogue, a story packed full of twists and turns, and two of the cheekiest thieves you'll ever meet... What more could a reader ask for? The Lies of Locke Lamora is the first book in...
View ArticleLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
This book is not only creepy but also much more violent than the film. The film plays up the romance between the two little kids, which is kind of downplayed in the book. What makes the book so...
View ArticleLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
I love the Swedish film for this novel, but there are a few scenes in the book that are absolutely terrifying! Additionally, the strange androgynous relationship between Eli and Oskar is more fully...
View ArticleI Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson is a master of suspenseful storytelling, and I read I Am Legend after seeing the movie and being reminded of the title. The main character and his actions are different in the book,...
View ArticleLet the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
This book is a reminder that good and evil are choices we can all make. What neither film adaptation of this novel truly captures is the overwhelming creepiness of all the characters. From a young...
View ArticleRequired Reading: Books Scarier than the Movies They Inspired
While we here at Powell's are always up for a good horror flick, many of the most iconic scary movies were adapted from books. And no amount of special effects, creepy soundtracks, and camera tricks...
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Anyone familiar with J. J. Abrams's cultishly popular film and TV projects should know exactly what to expect from his first foray into the printed word: the unexpected. This über-meta, genre-blending...
View ArticleDoctor Sleep
In this exciting and frightening follow-up to The Shining, Stephen King brings back the gifted young Danny Torrance, now a troubled adult. His encounter with a young girl who has an even greater gift...
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