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Patrick Rothfuss Interview – Kingkilling It

On June 18, 2018 By Sarah Sommer In Interviews

Patrick Rothfuss is a new author who has generated lots of buzz in the last couple of months, and now he’s  on Boomtron. His debut novel, The Name of the Wind, is the first installment …

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Back Matter Matters – A Study In Commitment

On June 14, 2018 By Ryan Lindsay In Comics

It is a story in words and pictures; that’s comic, kids. That’s what the companies sell, that’s what we buy. But I always want more, and I don’t think I’m asking for too much. There …

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Adventures in Unhistory by Avram Davidson Review

On June 11, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

Imagine if you will that, when you were younger, you had an older relative — a grandfather or great-aunt — who was something of an armchair historian regarding mythology. Every now and then, when you …

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Mark Charan Newton Interview – The Legends of the Red Sun

On June 10, 2018 By Phillip Sobel In Interviews

Mark Charan Newton is an urban fantasy author who’s currently two novels into his writing career and, judging by the sheer tonnage of critical acclaim which now includes a place in Library Journal’s top 5 …

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Dan Abnett Interview -In the Black Library

On June 9, 2018 By Phillip Sobel In Interviews

For me this is the interview to end all interviews. It’s not often one gets to interview a personal hero; I suspect this is mostly because heroes don’t enjoy mopping up fanboy drool, and frankly, …

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Three Days to Never by Tim Powers Review

On June 6, 2018 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

Tim Powers’s novels are so unlike anything else that I think John Shirley said it best over at Emerald City “Tim Powers is his own genre”. Or maybe he is the most unpredictable predictable writer …

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The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip Review

On June 1, 2018 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

The award winning Patricia A. McKillip is one of the prominent authors within fantasy fiction, but whereas notable masters of the genre like J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin work on an epic scale, McKillip’s …

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Escapement by Jay Lake Review

On May 31, 2018 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Escapement is the sequel to Jay Lake’s critically acclaimed novel Mainspring, wherein he maps out an alternate Earth anno 1900. Lake has quite cleverly constructed a world that for the most part resembles ours yet …

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Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey Review

On May 24, 2018 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Kushiel’s Dart is Jacqueline Carey’s highly successful debut and the first instalment of a trilogy that chronicles the exploits of Phèdre nó Delaunay – exquisite courtesan, talented spy and god-touched masochist. The book received the …

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8 Things About House Tyrell and Highgarden

On May 14, 2015 By Jay In Game of Thrones

Like the rest of these I’ve done, zero spoilers for fans of the Game of Thrones experience on HBO, and nothing that a readers of the books doesn’t already know. This week: House Tyrell of …

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Ten Things About House Targaryen for Game of Thrones Fans

On May 11, 2015 By Jay In Game of Thrones

Back to Game of Thrones as a lot of people read my Ten Things about Dorne and House Martell and a similar post about House Stark so I thought it might be worthwhile to go …

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7 Things About Game of Thrones’ House Baratheon and the Stormlands

On May 8, 2015 By Jay In Game of Thrones

… because HBO watchers sleep on Bobby Baratheon.

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10 Things About House Martell and Dorne in HBO’s Game of Thrones

On April 25, 2015 By Jay In Game of Thrones

A new episode of Game of Thrones is coming at us Sunday but we were briefly introduced to Dorne last week. Dorne’s a bit of a new flavor from what we have seen of Westeros …

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Ten Things About House Stark of Game of Thrones

On April 25, 2015 By Jay In Game of Thrones

Back to some Game of Thrones . A lot of people read my 10 Things about Dorne and House Martell so I thought it might be worthwhile to go back to Westeros and do something similar …

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The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum Review

On April 21, 2013 By Craig_Gidney In Book Reviews

Imagine Borges and Dali hanging out at Pee Wee Herman’s playhouse, and you have a brief inkling of what Rosenbaum’s fiction is like. The Ant King and Other Stories is Rosenbaum’s debut collection of short fiction, which …

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Jessica Bendinger Interview – Bringing It On

On April 1, 2013 By Elena Nola In Interviews

A couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Jessica Bendinger, screen writer, director, and now author.  Her best-known work, at least in my age demographic, is writing Bring It On.  Jessica also wrote …

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How My Load Got Shot – Jedidiah Ayres Guest Blog

On August 24, 2012 By Jedidiah Ayres In Guest Blogs

I just read a review of the film F*ckload of Scotch Tape that ended with this paragraph: “In the end, F*ckload of Scotch Tape is the cinematic equivalent of a repeated kick to the nuts …

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Books Punch Your Face – The Crime Midsummer Reading List

On July 22, 2012 By Josh Converse In Book Reviews

Eight noir novels to help fill your endless summer with a sense of overwhelming dread and paranoia. Okay, so I’m the professor who wakes up three weeks before the end of the semester and hits …

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The Posthumous Donald Westlake: It’s All Bullshit

On May 5, 2012 By Jimmy Callaway In Book Reviews

Donald Westlake, ever the prolific author, has had two novels released since his death on New Year’s Eve of 2009, both brought to us by the stellar Hard Case Crime imprint.  The first, in 2010, …

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Spanish Prisoners: 5 Indispensable Books of Scam Fiction

On April 1, 2012 By Jimmy Callaway In Book Reviews

Neil Gaiman and Jim Thompson bonded by Scam Fiction? It’s all a scam, isn’t it?

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