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Winner of the Special Jury Award in the 2011 Novel Competition by Schibsted Forlag, and now finally available in English: Talos Rising is the first of nine novels about The Last Navigator: An exciting journey through space and time, for all readers from young adults and up, the books span millennia of human exploration and survival through one universe and into the next.

Fast spaceships, enigmatic aliens, weird artifacts, brutal reality shows and gladiator games, humanity’s transition to the future is an interesting one. From old Earth where the presidential clones reign with an iron fist, to a war ravaged Mars, most people would want to reach out to the stars. However, our new allies, the Draconians, warn about a hidden danger out there: A ...more

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	Skyggespinneren (Den siste navigatør #1) 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Talos Rising (The Last Navigator Book 1) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lieta’s Revenge (The Last Navigator Book 2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lietas drøm (Den siste navigatør #2) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tidevann: En tidsthriller for ungdom (Norwegian Bokmål Edition) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Star (The Last Navigator Book 3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightbringer (The Last Navigator Book 4) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2024 was a weird year. I remember it starting out cold, with ice covering the inner fjord, lots of smoke on the water and snow on the ground, lots of snow. In the middle of January it was a literal blizzard raging outside. Then at the end of the same month, the store I’m working at closed down for a complete refit. So after working for that a couple of weeks and shivering through the cold winter, Read more of this blog post »

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Explosive ending to a great story Bloodstone is the third and final book about Jon Shannow AKA the Jerusalem Man, and it was published in 1994, the very same year I went to school in Oslo, finishing my civilian education. It wraps up the trilogy ( ...more
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Not Steamboat Willie Since I started my book list in 1994, I’ve read 600 books. Fevre Dream is exactly number 600, and very few of those can stand up to it. My average is 18,6 books per year, and the total of pages is 243,690. Since I only read pap ...more
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The middle book The Last Guardian is the second book about Jon Shannow, AKA The Jerusalem Man, and it follows right after the first. We meet a wounded Shannow as he meets the man-beast Shir-ran, who saves the gunslinger’s life. In the second chapt ...more
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