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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Category Archives: Books
William Shunn’s An Alternate History of the 21st Century, and Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #8
I had rather a shock when I finished William Shunn’s An Alternate History of the 21st Century. Most of the comments and analyses I’d come up with while reading these stories were echoed in the author’s “Afterword.” I’m not quite … Continue reading
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Tagged short fiction
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Tim Pratt’s Sympathy For The Devil
Pleased to mee-choo. Yeah, I said it. And no, this isn’t a collection of stories about The Rolling Stones, try again. Yep, it’s all Lucifer, all the time in this collection. Editor Tim Pratt collects some of his favorite stories … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, horror, short fiction
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T. A. Pratt’s Poison Sleep
Poison Sleep is the new Marla Mason book from Tim Pratt, writing as T. A. Pratt. Blood Engines, the first volume in what is bound to be a successful series of books following the adventures of the same heroine, was … Continue reading
Heather Shaw’s When We Were Six
While I have admired Heather Shaw’s creative contributions to Flytrap, the zine she co-produces with Tim Pratt, When We Were Six is the first chance I have had to read her fiction. Some aspects of this new chapbook, such as … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, short fiction
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Tim Pratt’s Little Gods
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Every generation, there are writers who emerge who seem to get it a little better than the rest of us. They’re the ones who understand story and myth and the ways we write our … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction, short fiction
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T. A. Pratt’s Blood Engines
Marla Mason is not a people person. She’s too suspicious of people’s motives to have friends, she doesn’t enjoy casual chitchat, and she considers the fact that people want to kill her a plus, since death threats ensure she keeps … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, urban fantasy
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Tim Pratt and Heather Shaw’s Flytrap 7
Along with the Heather Shaw chapbook reviewed elsewhere in Green Man Review, Issue 7 of Flytrap demonstrates that Tropism Press is a source for consistently intelligent and experimental speculative fiction. The tone of Flytrap is set in large part by … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction
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Masufumi Yamamoto’s The Manga Guide to Relativity
J.J.S. Boyce wrote this for Sleeping Hedgehog. Ohmsha’s Manga Guide series – with expert English translations courtesy of No Starch Press – has consistently shown its ability to do everything an introductory textbook aims to do, achieving maximum interest and … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, manga, science
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Anthony Bourdain’s Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Joseph Thompson wrote this review. Few things in this world highlight humanity’s truculence like the feast of Ortolan. This small bunting, force fed through manipulations of its diurnal cycle and then drowned in Armagnac, is eaten whole. With a cloth … Continue reading
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Tagged food and drink
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Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars
Don’t ask me how it’s been four years since I read and reviewed The Relentless Moon, the third full-length novel in Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series. Stuff’s been going on, I guess. But I finally happened to check at … Continue reading