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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
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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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
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- 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’
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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
- 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
Tag Archives: fantasy
Roger Zelazny; David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins eds.’ This Mortal Mountain: Volume 3 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
First, go read my review of the first volume in this series, Threshold: Volume One of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, before continuing any further into this review. While you’re reading that review, I’ll pop down to our Pub … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny; David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs and Ann Crimmins, eds.’ Power & Light, Volume 2 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
As I said in reviewing Threshold, which was the first book in this series: It was just past the gloaming one summer evening when the postman made a special delivery to the Green Man mailroom, a rather large and quite … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny; David G. Grubbs, Christopher S. Kovacs, and Ann Crimmins, eds.’ Threshold, Volume One of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
It was just past the gloaming one summer evening when the postman made a special delivery to the Green Man mailroom, a rather large and quite sturdy package that contained the first four volumes of the six volume set of … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny’s A Night In The Lonesome October Audiobook
All it takes is the name — Zelazny — and you have my attention. Like a dog presented with a favorite treat, I’m completely attentive to anything following. So when an audio book of one of my favorite tales — … Continue reading
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Frank Beddor with Liz Cavalier’s Hatter M, Volume Two: Mad With Wonder
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. As this second volume of Hatter M graphic novel collection opens, Hatter Madigan is still following the Glow, searching the world for Princess Alyss Heart of Wonderland, trapped in our imagination-poor universe instead of … Continue reading
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Holly Black & Ted Naifeh’s The Good Neighbors, Book One: Kin
When I agreed to review this Holly Black-Ted Naifeh collaboration, I didn’t notice that it was a graphic novel. When it arrived in the mail I was a bit taken aback. I’m not a huge fan of graphic novels and … Continue reading
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Mike Allen, ed.’s Clockwork Phoenix
Deborah J. Brannon wrote this review. The subtitle featured on the cover of Clockwork Phoenix is “tales of beauty and strangeness” and, with Mike Allen’s introduction, he immediately attemps to deliver on this promise. Readers are treated to an extended … Continue reading
Yasmine Galenorn’s Dragon Wytch
Yasmine Galenorn’s urban fantasy romance series began with the three books Witchling, Changling, and Darkling, which dealt with the adventures of the D’Artigo sisters Camille (a witch), Delilah (a werecat), and Menolly (a vampire). All three are of half-human, half-Fae … Continue reading
Gary Gygax’s The Anubis Murders
Say what you will about The Anubis Murders, Paizo’s Planet Stories line is a wonderful thing. Dedicated to keeping influential works of science fiction and fantasy in print for a new generation of fans, Planet Stories has resurrected classics like … Continue reading
Frank Beddor’s Seeing Redd
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Seeing Redd is the sequel to The Looking Glass Wars, and the second book in The Looking Glass Wars trilogy. The premise of the series is that Alice in Wonderland was Lewis Carroll’s narcotic-fueled … Continue reading