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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
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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
- 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
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- 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
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Tag Archives: science fiction
Poul Anderson’s The Van Rijn Method
At long last, someone has begun the monumental task of issuing the late Poul Anderson’s classic stories of the Polesotechnic League in internal chronological order. Hank Davis, who compiled this volume (there are three volumes in total), has expanded the … Continue reading
Robert Heinlein’s Glory Road
Before I get started on reviewing Glory Road, let me commend Tor for releasing Glory Road in a very nicely packaged hard cover edition, as it apparently hasn’t seen a hardcover edition since its original publication! If this were a play, I’d tell … Continue reading
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Tagged Robert Heinlein, science fiction
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Robert Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond The Sunset
To Sail Beyond The Sunset is the very last novel Robert Heinlein wrote, but you really, really need to read The Cat Who Walks Through Walls first, as this novel picks up seconds after that novel ends on a cliffhanger that … Continue reading
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men
There is something to be said for walking into things without foreknowledge. I readily admit that a background in any area will help you to enjoy something more fully, but when it comes to specifics, it’s often better to have … Continue reading
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Tagged dystopian futures, science fiction
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David Marusek’s Counting Heads
Counting Heads is David Marusek’s first novel, and an expansion of an earlier short story. It is a riveting work of excitement, adventure and character. The story takes place about a century and a half from the present. Its plot threads … Continue reading
John Scalzi’s METAtropolis
Shared-world projects have what can kindly be referred to as an uneven history. Thieves’ World, Wild Cards, Future Boston, Liavek (complete with possibly the only minnow-headed god in the history of fantasy literature) — all had their ups, downs, and other, less definable moments. METAtropolis, edited … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman’s Day of the Dead: An Annotated Babylon 5 Script
Whenever two Babylon 5 fans meet, whether it’s at a used book store, a sci-fi speakeasy, or somewhere else that’s safe for our species, it doesn’t take long for conversation to turn to the required topics: “Who’s your favorite character?” “What’s your … Continue reading
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Tagged Babylon 5, Neil Gaiman, science fiction
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Walter Jon Williams’ The Fourth Wall
And thus we complete the Dagmar Shaw trilogy, a very neat merging of very real games theory writ large upon a near future world just one step away from something very bad happening somewhere pretty much all the time. Stop … Continue reading
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Tagged Games theory, science fiction, Turkish politics
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Ken Maclead’s The Star Fraction audiobook
I got this sometime back from one of the publicists from Audible sometime back but hadn’t gotten around to listening to it until this past week. Now I’m sorry that I didn’t give it a listen sooner! It was a … Continue reading
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Tagged Devolved Britian, Leftist politics, Political theory, science fiction, theories of history
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Various Writers’ Firefly: A Celebration
Firefly lasted but a double handful of episodes and one film, but it created a huge number of Browncoats, fans of the series who were so named for the coat that Firefly a Captain Malcolm Reynolds wore. Oh and Steven Brust, … Continue reading
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Tagged Firefly series, Joss Whedon, science fiction
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