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- 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
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- 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
Roger Zelazny; David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins eds.’ This Mortal Mountain: Volume 3 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
First, go read my review of the first volume in this series, Threshold: Volume One of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, before continuing any further into this review. While you’re reading that review, I’ll pop down to our Pub … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny; David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins, eds.’ Power & Light, Volume 2 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
As I said in reviewing Threshold, which was the first book in this series: It was just past the gloaming one summer evening when the postman made a special delivery to the Green Man mailroom, a rather large and quite … Continue reading
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Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas and Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks is one of the most creative in a field of highly creative contemporary British science fiction authors. It’s been better than 20 years since he started writing sf books about what he calls The Culture, and Little, … Continue reading
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Joss Whedon’s Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight Volume Five)
Predators and Prey is volume five of Whedon’s “Buffy Season Eight,” otherwise known as The Buffy Story After The TV Show Wrapped. While earlier volumes like Wolves At The Gate and The Long Way Home were slam-bang action fests or … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, comics
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Roger Zelazny; David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs, and Ann Crimmins, eds.’ Threshold, Volume One of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
It was just past the gloaming one summer evening when the postman made a special delivery to the Green Man mailroom, a rather large and quite sturdy package that contained the first four volumes of the six volume set of … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny’s A Night In The Lonesome October Audiobook
All it takes is the name — Zelazny — and you have my attention. Like a dog presented with a favorite treat, I’m completely attentive to anything following. So when an audio book of one of my favorite tales — … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, urban fantasy
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Douglas Clegg’s Isis: A Tale of the Supernatural
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Have you ever read “The Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs? It’s a nasty little story that proves quite graphically that bringing the dead back to life, no matter what the motive, is a … Continue reading
Jonathan Maberry’s Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel
Terrorists getting a little too scientifically savvy? A zombie plague breaking into the U.S. with no hope of a cure in sight? Who ya gonna call? Well, if you’re smart you’ll call Joe Ledger, because after what he’s gone through … Continue reading
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Ibrahim Abdel Meguid’s Birds of Amber
Along with Great Cairo: Mother of the World, we received this book in a shipment of review copies from International Publishers Marketing. It’s an English translation from the original Arabic, although I should note that the translator (Farouk Abdel Wahab) … Continue reading
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Tagged Egyptian literature, fiction, history
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Desmond Stewart’s Great Cairo: Mother of the World
Three of the most memorable literary journeys I’ve made in 2008-09 have brought me to the ancient and venerable city of Cairo, Egypt. In Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy (English translation easily available in several editions, both as a single … Continue reading
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