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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
- 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
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Books
G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen
Alif is a young man, a “gray hat” hacker, selling his skills to provide cybersecurity to anyone who needs that protection from the government. He lives in an unnamed city-state in the Middle East, referred to throughout simply as the … Continue reading
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Tagged cyberpunk, science fiction
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Ed Lacy’s Room to Swing
Ed Lacy’s Room to Swing won the Edgar for Best Novel in 1958. It is now republished by Poisoned Pen Press as a part of their Library of Congress Crime Classics series. The lead in the book is small time … Continue reading
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Larry Niven’s Ringworld
Louis Wu is 200 years old, and he’s bored. It’s his 200th birthday, and he’s using transfer booths to extend the celebration of it for a full twenty-four hours, and he’s really bored. Then, when transferring from one birthday location … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny’s Roadmarks
Whereupon Paul takes the road to the Last Exit to Babylon and once again explores a classic of the Roger Zelazny oeuvre, Roadmarks and finds some pleasures, but also some potholes as well. The road goes ever on and on and … Continue reading
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Emery Robin’s The Stars Undying
Emery Robin’s debut novel, The Stars Undying, attempts, with uneven success, to transplant the story of Cleopatra and Gaius Julius Ceasar to a space opera setting. Long ago, or perhaps long from now, in a galaxy that may or may … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient history, Egypt, rome, science fiction
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Roger Zelazny‘s A Night in the Lonesome October
Snuff is our narrator, here, and he’s a smart, interesting, likable dog. He’s the friend and partner of a man called Jack, and they are preparing for a major event. Jack has a very sharp knife, which he and Snuff … Continue reading
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Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Series: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, and The Wastelands
The Gunslinger “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” With those deceptively straightforward words, world-renowned horror writer Stephen King launches (and rather neatly sums up) the first volume of his sprawling epic fantasy series The … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, stephen king
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William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive
Wes Unruh wrote this review. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. — William Gibson, Neuromancer The future world of the Sprawl series is a world of crumbling governments supplanted by multinational … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction
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Stephen King’s Under the Dome and Blockade Billy
At first blush, it may seem odd to review these two Stephen King works together. After all, one is a weighty tome – literally, clocking in at nearly 1,100 pages – about a small Maine town trapped beneath a bizarre … Continue reading
Ben Aaronovitch’s The October Man (Rivers of London #7.5)
This entry in Rivers of London is, for variety, set in Germany, and involves a German river. Or two. And river goddesses. Tobias Winter is an investigator for Abteilung KDA, the German version of Britain’s Folly. He’s on leave when … Continue reading
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