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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
Vernor Vinge’s The Children of the Sky
The Children of the Sky is Vernor Vinge’s long-awaited sequel to his 1993 Hugo Award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep. It is set on Tines World 10 years after the action that takes place in the earlier book, following … Continue reading
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Stefan Petrucha, Dead Mann Walking
Ever since we figured out how to bring people back from the dead, humanity has divided itself into two kinds: the livebloods, and the zombies (also known as chakz, a corrupted form of charqui, or jerky.) As you can imagine, … Continue reading
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Philip José Farmer, Gary K. Wolfe), Ed., Up the Bright River
Philip José Farmer’s strength as a writer of speculative fiction has always been his willingness to push the conceptual boundaries of the genre. He is, after all, credited with being the one who brought sex into science fiction, with his … Continue reading
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Stan Nicholls and Joe Flood, Orcs: Forged For War
The main problem with the orcs in Stan Nicholls’ Orcs: Forged for War (a spinoff of his fantasy novels set in the same universe) is that there’s little to nothing about them that’s specifically, well, orc-ish. Yes, they’re green and … Continue reading
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Daithi Ó hÓgáin’s The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend and Romance
The Lore of Ireland is a magical phrase, calling up images of heroic deeds and fey enchantments, bloody treachery and shining honor, great warriors, cold queens of the Sidhe, leprechauns, cattle raids, enchanted groves, bards, prophecies — it’s sobering to think … Continue reading
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Tagged folklore, Irish folklore, myth
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Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas’ Haunted Legends
It’s something of a paradox: As a collection I found this volume kind of weak, but there are a lot of very fine stories in it. So many, in fact, that on going back over the anthology a second time, … Continue reading
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Tagged anthology, horror, short fiction
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Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Margaret Atwood needs no introduction to readers of Green Man Review. Suffice to say she is one of the best known and highly respected North American writers of … hmm, well, what is it that she writes? Actually, that is … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, nonfiction, science fiction
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Glen Cook’s A Path to Coldness of Heart
‘Copyright Glen Cook 2011 and used with the permission of Night Shade Books. Online use granted to Green Man Review, a publication of Kinrowan Limited, and any other use, online or in print, is prohibited without the express written permission … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, heroic fantasy
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Diane Purkiss’ At The Bottom Of The Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things
Whilst there are many good books on the fey folk, most only cover the good aspects of them. Our library is full of books that would lead one to believe that the fey are really nice folk who help out … Continue reading
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Tagged English folklore, Fairies, fey
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Tanya Huff’s The Enchantment Emporium
The Enchantment Emporium is the first volume in what I find myself hoping will become an extended series centered on the Gale family; in this installment, the center is Alysha Catherine Gale, 24, newly unemployed, and back home at the … Continue reading
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