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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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- 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
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Tag Archives: science fiction
Frank Herbert’s Dune audiobook
I’m assuming that you know about Dune, so I’ll not detail it here. Did you watch Farscape? If you did, you’ll remember that everyone save the U.S. astronaut thrown into that weird setting spoke with a variety of Australian accents? … Continue reading
Steven Brust’s My Own Kind of Freedom: A Firefly Novel
My Own Kind of Freedom was written by Brust in hopes that the corporation that was producing the series would be interested in buying it for development. That didn’t happen and Brust very nicely released this under, and I quote, … Continue reading
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Torchwood’s Golden Age audiobook
Golden Age is the story of Torchwood India and what happened to it. It is my belief that the best of all the Torchwood were the audio dramas made by BBC during the run of the series. Please note that … Continue reading
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Tagged India, science fiction, Torchwood
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Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency
Global Frequency is one of the best comics that Warren Ellis has created, a series so interesting that there have two attempts to make a television series out of it. Global Frequency is a organisation devoted to combating those incidents … Continue reading
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Tagged science fiction, Warren Ellis
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Doctor Who’s The Unicorn and The Wasp
If you haven’t seen this episode, go away now. Really. Truly. Everything that follows is spoilers in the extreme. One of my favourites of the newer episodes of this series is a country house mystery featuring a number of murders and, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Doctor Who, English mystery, manor house mystery, science fiction
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Jeff Vandermeer’s Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
Trust no one and trust nothing that you are told as everything may be a lie. That appears to be the theme of the three novels making up the Area X trilogy, Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance. According to the first … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny’s Isle of The Dead audiobook
If you started listening to audiobooks over the past ten or so years, considered yourself to be extremely lucky as you’re living in a true Golden Age where narration, production, and ease of use is extremely good. But long ago, … Continue reading
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Ian McDonald’s Ares Express
You will know whether you will love or hate Ares Express long before you have finished the first chapter. The litmus test is very simple: what is your reaction to the name of the main character. If you find Sweetness … Continue reading
Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s End of the World Blues
Jon Courtenay Grimwood, to my mind, is one of a handful of contemporary writers to have successfully made the whole concept of “genre” moot. I might point out that there are many who are working at it, but Grimwood just … Continue reading
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