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- A Kinrowan Estate story: puppeteers, and their puppets
- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- 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
Category Archives: Books
Elizabeth Bear’s Book of Iron
With Book of Iron, Elizabeth Bear pays another visit to the world of Bijou the Artificer, the Wizard of Messaline who makes creatures out of bone, jewels, and metal and who embarks on adventures, whom we first met in Bone … Continue reading
Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden: Joe Golem and the Drowning City
I’ve gotten into the habit of thinking of Mike Mignola as a creator of graphic novels. And so, of course, I find myself faced with Joe Golem and the Drowning City, a collaboration with Christopher Golden, billed as “an illustrated … Continue reading
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Manley Wellman’s The Complete John Thunstone
Where Nightshade’s epic five-volume set gathered together all of Manly Wade Wellman’s extant short fiction, The Complete John Thunstone instead focuses on all of the appearances of that singular character. While not as well known as Wellman’s signature character John … Continue reading
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Tagged Manly Wade Wellman, mythopoeicliterature
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Leona Wisoker’s Fires of the Desert
Fires of the Desert is Book Four of Leona Wisoker’s series, Children of the Desert, and, just when you thought things couldn’t get more complex and difficult, they do, although thankfully the darkness of Bells of the Kingdom is ameliorated. … Continue reading
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Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy is inarguably one of the seminal works of modern science fiction. It was one of the first to take its inspiration from the social sciences rather than the physical sciences (Gernsback’s formula of “better living through … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction
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Charles Stross’ The Bloodline Feud
OOK, this is where the publishing industry gets a bit strange. The Bloodline Feud, available in the United kingdom right now, was originally published as separate volumes, to wit The Family Trade (2004) and The Hidden Family (2005) as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative history, Author's preferred text, Charles Stross
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Kathleen Tierney: Blood Oranges
Meet Siobhan Quinn. She’s a badass teenage monster hunter with a rep for taking down nasties. Ghouls, vampires, werewolves, they all quake at the sound of her name and the threat of her crossbow. Don’t believe a word of it. … Continue reading
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Richard Parks’ Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter
There’s always a rumble of discontent when a writer who’s made their bones in another genre (or perhaps — gasp — literary fiction) tries their hand at speculative fiction. The gripes are always the same, and often justified — they … Continue reading
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Leona Wisoker’s Bells of the Kingdom
The third novel in Leona Wisoker’s Children of the Desert, Bells of the Kingdom, opens at the monastery of Arason, which shares territory — or did — with the “children of the lake” — witches, the human inhabitants (those who don’t know better) … Continue reading
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Simon R. Green’s Ghost of a Dream
The Ghost Finders are back. The intrepid agents of the Carnacki Institute are up to their eyeballs in spooktacular mayhem once again. Team leader JC Chance (no longer human after being touched by a Higher Power), technology expert Melody Chambers … Continue reading
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