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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
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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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- 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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- 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
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Tag Archives: fantasy
Steven Brust and Skyler White’s The Incrementalists
In my view, a new novel by Steven Brust is something to be eagerly awaited. And when he collaborates with another writer, the results can be both unexpected and very rewarding. And so, I opened The Incrementalists with a large … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, urban fantasy
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Elizabeth Bear’s Book of Iron
With Book of Iron, Elizabeth Bear pays another visit to the world of Bijou the Artificer, the Wizard of Messaline who makes creatures out of bone, jewels, and metal and who embarks on adventures, whom we first met in Bone … Continue reading
Glen Cook’s A Fortess in Shadow
The Fire in His Hands With Mercy Toward None A Fortress in Shadow is an omnibus edition collecting Glen Cook’s two “prequel” novels to The Dread Empire trilogies. (Yes, there are two of them, which we have discussed here and … Continue reading
Mike Resnick’s Stalking the Zombie
There’s actually a fairly long history for the fantasy detective genre, going back at least to Randall Garrett’s stories of Lord Darcy from the 1960s. The genre has enjoyed a roster of stellar practitioners — Michael Moorcock, Glenn Cook, Steven … Continue reading
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Tagged Dectective fiction, fantasy, New York City
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Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Margaret Atwood needs no introduction to readers of Green Man Review. Suffice to say she is one of the best known and highly respected North American writers of … hmm, well, what is it that she writes? Actually, that is … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, nonfiction, science fiction
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Glen Cook’s A Path to Coldness of Heart
‘Copyright Glen Cook 2011 and used with the permission of Night Shade Books. Online use granted to Green Man Review, a publication of Kinrowan Limited, and any other use, online or in print, is prohibited without the express written permission … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, heroic fantasy
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William Schafer, Ed., Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2
I don’t think I’m alone in thinking of “dark fantasy” as a sort of combination of urban fantasy and horror: vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies, and less pleasant creatures confronting more or less normal people who may have the resources, or … Continue reading
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Tagged anthologies, dark fantasy, fantasy
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Phillip José Farmer, The Dark Design
The Dark Design, the second volume in Tor’s reissue of Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld series, is actually the third book in the saga, following To Your Scattered Bodies Go and The Fabulous Riverboat. We’re following four threads of narrative here. … Continue reading
Kage Baker’s Not Less Than Gods
Matthew Winslow submitted this review. It is a little after 1:15 p.m., January 31, 2010. Kage Baker passed away just 12 hours ago and I found out about it less than a half hour ago. Even though the Green Man … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction, steampunk
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