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- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
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- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
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- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
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Category Archives: Books
Aida Hudson and Susan-Ann Cooper’s Windows and Words: A Look at Canadian Children’s Literature in English
Lory Hess penned this review. Most people’s knowledge of Canadian children’s literature runs the gamut from Anne of Green Gables to . . . well, Anne of Green Gables. Thus it comes as no surprise that in this volume of … Continue reading
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John Scalzi’s METAtropolis
Shared-world projects have what can kindly be referred to as an uneven history. Thieves’ World, Wild Cards, Future Boston, Liavek (complete with possibly the only minnow-headed god in the history of fantasy literature) — all had their ups, downs, and other, less definable moments. METAtropolis, edited … Continue reading
Charles Stross’ The Halting State
Sunshine, The Halting State is the best near future thriller I’ve read since first encountering John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider nearly thirty years ago. Indeed I’m quite surprised that it’s being marketed as sf genre fiction and not as a mainstream novel! Like The Shockwave … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Aestival Tide
Aestival Tide is the second installment of Elizabeth Hand’s post-apocalyptic trilogy that begins with Winterlong. It portrays, in loving detail, the decadence and destruction of Araboth, the city created as a refuge from the horrors of war and pestilence unleashed by earlier … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Winterlong
Elizabeth Hand’s Winterlong is not an easy book. It challenges the reader from the first page – really, the first sentence. It sprawls across genre boundaries as if they weren’t there, effortlessly mixing mythopoeic fantasy with horror with post-apocalyptic science fiction with … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Waking the Moon
Naomi de Bruyn penned this review. Katherine Sweeney Cassidy is a new student at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine, simply called ‘the Divine’ by those familiar with it. The student body is composed of various … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Saffron and Brimstone
The title of Elizabeth Hand’s new collection of short stories is just one of the many clever things about this book, referencing the two stories that begin and end the collection, “Cleopatra Brimstone” and “The Saffron Gatherers,” respectively. However, despite … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s Black Light
Elizabeth Hand’s Black Light is a foray into the world of dark gods, misty legends, and deep secrets. Lit Moylan (her real name is Charlotte) is about to finish high school. She lives with her parents in Kamensic, New York, a village … Continue reading
Elizabeth Hand’s The Bride of Frankenstein: Pandora’s Bride
It has always seemed a little ironic to me that out of the classic monster triad of the vampire, the werewolf, and Frankenstein’s monster, it is this last one–the only one written by a woman–which has failed to produce a … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Hand’s Mortal Love
Elizabeth Vail penned this review. This is probably the first book that I heartily enjoyed, but barely understood. Throughout this wide-spanning, endlessly complex novel, I was overcome by the sensation similar to that of a child listening to an adult conversation, … Continue reading