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- 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
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- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
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- 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
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Category Archives: Books
An Essential Bordertown Guide
“Where Magic Meets Rock & Roll” Once upon a time, in a far off land much like our own, there was magic. Then, one day, it was gone, and the world was a much drearier place for it. But we … Continue reading
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Larry Niven’s Rainbow Mars
Ah, to visit John Carter and the inhabitants of Barsoom, Edger Rice Burroughs’ richly imagined Mars. The characters in Robert Heinlein’s The Number of The Beast did so, in their travels across the multiverse, and now the protaganist of Rainbow … Continue reading
Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles
Carter Napier penned this review. By June of 1949, Ray Bradbury was gaining recognition as one of America’s leading short story writers. He had won the O. Henry Award in 1947 and again in 1948. Bradbury’s friend Norman Corwin encouraged … Continue reading
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Elly Bangs’ Unity
Elly Bangs’ Unity is a novel dealing with I, a cyberpunk of possibly post cyberpunk world. There are cybernetic enhancements, data uploads, terrifying weapons and a variety of other problems. One of the greatest threats in this society is nanotechnology, … Continue reading
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Clifford D. Simak’s City
To one who grew up on science fiction (and I really did — the first book I ever bought all on my own was The Big Book of Science Fiction, edited by Groff Conklin; I think that was about fifth … Continue reading
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Two period novels for your delectation: David Liss, and Barbara Monajem
The Peculiarities by David Liss is a strong steampunk story about Victorian magicians, featuring Aleister Crowley and other lights of the era. Thomas Thresher, a formerly well-heeled idler now enslaved in his family’s bank, has a lot of problems. His … Continue reading
Dorothy Elllen Palmer’s Wiggins: Son of Sherlock
Dorothy Elllen Palmer’s Wiggins: Son of Sherlock represents an interesting variation. Telling the tale from the point of view of an elderly individual whom in youth was Wiggins, it takes a wide apprach to re interpreting the classic stories. The timeline … Continue reading
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Bianca Jenkins’ Tales Of Scotland Yard: Lestrade
Bianca Jenkins’ Tales Of Scotland Yard: Lestrade is a short novel/novella covering the early days of the titular character’s work as an inspector at Scotland Yard. Having made himself on Fleet Street. Lestrade (first name Giles in this story) is … Continue reading
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Ted Riccardi’s The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Firesign Theatre’s The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, Michael Moorcock’s The Mystery of the Texas Twister (and They Might Be Giants
Craig Clarke penned this wide ranging review. Sherlock Holmes is a mythic figure, so ingrained in the public consciousness that people have never stopped wanting to revisit him in new adventures. Pastiches abound, and some writers, like Nicholas Meyer and … Continue reading
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Andrew Lycett’s The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Faith J. Cormier penned this review. First, he chose an interesting subject. Arthur Conan Doyle may have died in 1930, but his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, seems immortal. He was a complex man — author, sportsman, military historian, physician, … Continue reading
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