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Tag Archives: fantasy
Michael Swanwick’s Not So Much, Said The Cat
Not So Much, Said The Cat is a largely themeless short story collection from five time Hugo winner Michael Swanwick. Apart from the byline, there’s little to unify these tales, which leap from the end of the Cretaceous to the … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction
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Jayme Lynn Blaschke’s Voices of Vision
Jayme Lynn Blaschke is a freelance interviewer, which earns him points for courage under fire: interviewing is not really very easy, and writers and editors are sometimes among the most difficult of subjects. Voices of Vision is a collection of … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, fantasy, nonfiction, science fiction
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Simon R. Green’s Shadows Fall
Somewhere off the beaten path of society and civilization, there lies the mysterious town of Shadows Fall. The elephants’ graveyard of the imagination, it’s where gods and heroes, legends and monsters, myths and childhood companions all go when their time … Continue reading
Simon R. Green’s Drinking Midnight Wine
What value can one ordinary man have in a magical world? What can a mortal bring to the affairs of immortals? When Toby Dexter impulsively follows a strange woman off the train and through a door that shouldn’t exist, he … Continue reading
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s Time Travelers, Ghosts, and Other Visitors
Rachel Manija Brown penned this review. I have read some wonderful stories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman in various anthologies and magazines. The chilling and ultra-original “A Touch of the Old Lilith,” for instance, or the sweetly poignant “Home For Christmas.” So … Continue reading
Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s A Red Heart of Memories
Rebecca Swain penned this review. This book might be more successful as a kind of fictionalized self-help manual for people surviving abuse than as a novel, in my opinion. Hoffman introduces intriguing ideas and characters, but she doesn’t do enough … Continue reading
Simon Green’s Something from the Nightside
The Mail Room here at Green Man is interesting, to say the least. As Craig Clarke noted recently, he’s “been passing the time cleaning up” — no small feat, I’m here to tell you. There’s dust here that’s older than I am. … Continue reading
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David Clement-Davies’s The Sight
The Sight is the second fiction offering from travel writer David Clement-Davies. His first novel, Fire Bringer, was set in Scotland and centered on red deer. The Sight takes us to medieval Transylvania and gives us the story of a pack of wolves. As … Continue reading
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials audiobooks
J.J.S. Boyce penned this review. His Dark Materials. At last we meet. I’ve been aware of this trilogy for some time, and though I didn’t know precisely what it was about (and maintained my ignorance up until the moment the special GMR cherub … Continue reading
Terri Windling’s The Changeling
Charlie and his family live in a time when a silent horror walks the streets, striking people at random and stealing their lives away. Called consumption, it’s as inexplicable and uncontrollable as any ghost. When consumption comes for Charlie’s two … Continue reading