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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
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- 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
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- 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
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- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
- What’s New for the 4th of January: Favorite books and music of 2025
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Mythologist John Campbell
- What’s New for 21st of December
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Pub Ghoulies
- What’s New for 7 of December: books by Alan Garner, and holiday music new and old, Celtic, Americana, jazz and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies, Part Two
- What’s New for 23 November
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Several Annies
- What’s New for the 9th of November: rhymers and ravens, folk songs and folk tales, jazz guitar and dark forests and constellations put to music, Hungarian tunes and knights and rakes and tinkers and fools, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Kedgeree
- Whats New for the 26th of October: some Patricia McKillip books and an interview, ’70s jazz reissues, Nordic Americana and American Americana, and some Samhain seasonal albums
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Tag Archives: science fiction
Suzanne Palmer’s Ode to the Half-Broken
Award winning author Suzanne Palmer adds to her growing stack of novel-length SF with Ode to the Half-Broken, an engaging tale of friendship and treachery, adventure and revenge among post-apocalypse AI “mechs” and a few surviving humans in what used … Continue reading
James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes
It’s already been a few years since the 10th anniversary edition of this book was published, to celebrate the first decade of this huge and hugely popular SF franchise now known as The Expanse. I came to it rather late, … Continue reading
James S. A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods
The creators of The Expanse (both the nine books and the popular six-season streaming series) are back with the first book of a new series. The Mercy of Gods is an utterly absorbing alien invasion first contact thriller that I … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s The Folded Sky
Dr. Sunya Song is an expert at teasing information out of ancient archives. She has travelled long and far to an exotic location to do just that, surviving an attack by pirates along the way, only to discover that her … Continue reading
Apple TV+’s Murderbot, Episodes 1-2
The wait is over! The small screen adaptation of Martha Wells’s Hugo and Nebula winning book series The Murderbot Diaries began in mid-May (2025) on Apple TV+. Cutting to the chase: It’s good! The series opened with the first two … Continue reading
George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
This is it. The journey’s over. There’s no more new ground to cover, movie-wise. The new trilogy is officially at an end. Almost anyone who has more than a passing interest in these films has seen this movie already, most … Continue reading
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George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a man took a whole slew of mythic elements and cultural themes, and wove them into one of the great stories of the 20th Century. The farm boy, ignorant of … Continue reading
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Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #6
Flytrap #6 is the latest issue of this little jewel of a ‘zine published twice a year by Tropism Press. As usual, this issue of Flytrap includes the quirky combination of personal newsletter and literary magazine that gives it so … Continue reading
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Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt’s Flytrap #5
Flytrap is a twice yearly zine from Tropism Press, except when it isn’t because the editors were on their honeymoon (see the pictures of Hawaii which illustrate this issue). Such eclectic elements are part of what makes this zine so … Continue reading
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Tim Pratt’s Little Gods
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Every generation, there are writers who emerge who seem to get it a little better than the rest of us. They’re the ones who understand story and myth and the ways we write our … Continue reading
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