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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
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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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- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
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- 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
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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
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- 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
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- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
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Tag Archives: fantasy
“Lideric” a short story by Jennifer Stevenson
BLURB MATERIAL: The author is indebted to Valya Lupescu and Madeline Carol Matz for introduction to their notions of house spirit. She took some liberties with their idea, blended them with a Roumanian sex demon, stirred, popped it all in … Continue reading
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Tagged daycare, fantasy, Ghost, Roumanian house spirit
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Mike Ashley’s The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy Vols. I and II
I’ll admit, a couple of years ago I knew little about the genre of “comic fantasy.” It hadn’t really even occurred to me that there might be such a thing, though I probably would have been able to come up … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, Neil Gaiman
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Patricia A. McKillip’s Ombria in Shadow
Tracy Willans wrote this review. I love Patricia McKillip’s work. I think I’d better state the obvious early, so my bias is known from the beginning. I revel in the lushness of her language. I love to read it out … Continue reading
Patricia A. McKillip’s The Moon and the Face
In The Moon and the Face, Patricia McKillip revisits Kyreol and Terje from her lovely young adult novel Moon Flash. Kyreol and Terje, having followed the river to the Dome in book one of this duology, now push beyond the … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds of Exile and Illusion
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds of Exile and Illusion collects the three earliest published novels by the author. Specifically the first three Hainish novels (Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions) are contained with the pages of the large … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction
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Jennifer St. Clair’s Nine Lives and Three Wishes
Misty is deeply devoted to his family, even though he’s not related to them by blood. He loves Carla, and it troubles him that she worries about the bills all the time. He loves Maddie, Carla’s small daughter, even though … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, YA fantasy
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Jules Watson’s The Swan Maiden
The Irish legend of Deirdre would seem to be ideal material for grand opera, full of romance, passion, high honor and deadly betrayal. Burdened at birth with a druid’s prediction that she will be extraordinarily beautiful but bring bloody doom … Continue reading
Deborah Grabien’s Still Life with Devils
Christopher White penned this review. Deborah Grabien is a writer with a style that is easy and pleasant to read; in short, she is a talented storyteller. Still Life with Devils is a potentially interesting genre mash-up, mystery meets supernatural. … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, mystery, science fiction
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Steven Brust’s Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla, Taltos, Phoenix, Athyra, Orca, Dragon, Issola, and Jhereg: The Graphic Novel
Vlad Taltos is a very dangerous man. He has to be, in his line of work. He’s an assassin. He’s an Easterner (what we’d call human) in an empire full of near-immortal, very powerful beings known collectively as the Dragaerians. … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary fantasy, fantasy, urban fantasy
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An interview with Patricia A. McKillip, October 2008
Deborah J. Brannon conducted this interview with Patricia A. McKillip. Several of your novels can be called literary fairy tales: lovely narratives that interweave fairy tale tropes into new (and sometimes surprising) shapes. What do you think the role is … Continue reading →