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K. J. Bishop’s The Etched City

A young woman rides into a dying near-ghost town on the frontier of Copper Country, tethers her mount and walks into the only open establishment, a bar. A card game is in progress. She recognizes one of the players but … Continue reading

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Patricia A. McKillip’s The Book of Atrix Wolfe

Some of the GMR staff were having a conversation about books that are beautifully written, books whose authors obviously love the English language and use it skillfully, extravagantly, profligately, even orgiastically. The Book of Atrix Wolfe is on my list … Continue reading

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Roger Zelazny’s Manna from Heaven

‘The dead are too much with us.’ — from Zelazny’s The Isle of The Dead It is indeed worth noting that Manna from Heaven is the first major collection of Zelazny’s short fiction in 15 years. Though some of the … Continue reading

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Patricia A. McKillip’s The Changeling Sea

Once upon a time there was a king who fell in love with a woman of the sea. In time, however, he married one of his own people and made her his queen. In anger, the sea woman exacted a … Continue reading

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Sharyn November, editor’s Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

GMR’s Editor in Chief, Cat Eldridge, is a wicked, wicked man. He e-mailed me the other day to say, “Firebirds, the new anthology from Sharyn November, just came in. Let’s get it reviewed fast!” “Fine,” I replied. “I’ve got a … Continue reading

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Kage Baker’s The Angel in the Darkness

We’re spoiled here at Green Man. We get to read, hear, and watch really cool material that you most likely have never heard of. It’s a tough job but we generally bear up well under the burden of doing this. … Continue reading

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Philip Pullman’s Lyra’s Oxford (print and audiobook)

‘Lyra’s knowledge had great gaps in it, like a map of the world largely eaten by mice….’ — The Golden Compass Now where was I? Ahhh, going through the afternoon post before anyone else gets to it. What’s this? A … Continue reading

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Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

The immensely popular Discworld series has its first entry in the field of young readers’ books with The Amazing Maurice. It’s a mostly successful effort, built on Terry Pratchett’s brand of satiric humor, which here is toned down a bit … Continue reading

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Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, editors’ The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fifteenth Annual Collection

If someone were to assign awards to the roundup of Year’s Best books that invariably grace the shelves during the middle of each year, those volumes edited by Silverberg or Hartwell or Datlow and Windling or other sundry people, then … Continue reading

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Kage Baker’s Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers

There are a lot of strange people in San Francisco, and if you work there, you soon grow used to occasional peculiarities in your customers; but the girl behind the cash register at Ghirardelli’s decided that this took weirdness to … Continue reading

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