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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
Kage Baker’s Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen
Most of you most likely know Kage Baker as the writer of The Company series where immortal cyborgs gleaned treasures for their masters down the long years, but but did you know that she had a deep, loving interest in … Continue reading
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Tagged Golden Era Hollywood, Movies, science fiction
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Kate Griffin’s Stray Souls
Stray Souls may in fact be the modern fantasy novel I have been waiting to read for twenty years. Why? One simple reason. When vast supernatural evil threatens the city of London and all its supernatural inhabitants, and when freshly … Continue reading
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Kate Griffin’s The Minority Council
The Minority Council, the fourth novel in Kate Griffin’s Midnight Mayor series, puts Matthew Swift, the current Midnight Mayor of London, is more peril of his and the Electric Blue Angels’ existence than in any of the previous novels as … Continue reading
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Tagged Kate Griffin, London, urban fantasy
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Glen Cook’s A Fortess in Shadow
The Fire in His Hands With Mercy Toward None A Fortress in Shadow is an omnibus edition collecting Glen Cook’s two “prequel” novels to The Dread Empire trilogies. (Yes, there are two of them, which we have discussed here and … Continue reading
Alastair Reynolds’s Troika
As soon as I finished Alastair Reynolds’s latest, the novella Troika, I thought “this would make a great Twilight Zone* episode. Actually, it would probably require a movie-length treatment to tell the story correctly, but you get the idea. Troika … Continue reading
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Hannu Rajaniemi’s The Fractal Prince
Have you checked out this new series from Finn-born Edinburgher, Hannu Rajaniemi? Though it was published back in 2010 in the UK, The Quantum Thief only came stateside about one year ago, giving newly converted fans a mercifully short wait … Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke’s Tales From The White Hart
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, BCE, was one of the best-known scientific minds of the second half of the 20th Century. One of the “big three” of science fiction along with Heinlein and Asimov, his works helped bring respectability to the … Continue reading
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John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar
Science fiction has the distinction among fiction genres of periodically re-inventing itself. The ” formula,” in which the science was the story, gave place after World War II to a more human-centered approach — and not a little dystopian future fiction … Continue reading
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Kelley Armstrong’s Forbidden
Forbidden is essentially connective tissue for Kelley Armstrong’s ongoing Otherworld setting. It’s a handsomely illustrated novella — four images by Angilram complement the text in stark red, black and white. But really, the point of this followup to Frostbitten is … Continue reading
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Tagged Otherworld series
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Brandon Sanderson’s The Emperor’s Soul
Brandon Sanderson really, really likes working up magic systems. Pick up any of his works and you’re in for a detailed description of how precisely magic in that world works, often with its most intricate minutiae explored. As such, it’s … Continue reading
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