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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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
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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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- 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’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- 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: science fiction
James Cameron’s Avatar
Joseph Thompson submitted this review. Good storytellers are gardeners. They take the seed of an idea and plant it within the mulch of their life experience. After a season of drafts and rewrites, the fruit of their labor is harvested … Continue reading
Neal Stephenson’s Anathem
One of the joys of Anathem is the way it unfolds slowly, bit by bit, with every newly revealed detail exposing another unsuspected layer of complexity beneath. Stephenson’s world-building is on the truly fantastic level in Anathem, but it is … Continue reading
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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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Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas and Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks is one of the most creative in a field of highly creative contemporary British science fiction authors. It’s been better than 20 years since he started writing sf books about what he calls The Culture, and Little, … 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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Jonathan Maberry’s Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel
Terrorists getting a little too scientifically savvy? A zombie plague breaking into the U.S. with no hope of a cure in sight? Who ya gonna call? Well, if you’re smart you’ll call Joe Ledger, because after what he’s gone through … Continue reading
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Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash
Christopher White wrote this review. Originally published in 1995, written (presumably) in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Snow Crash is being republished in a variety of formats and editions, including a signed and numbered limited edition hardcover run of … Continue reading
Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan, editors, The New Space Opera
It’s been a long time since I read a science fiction anthology. Which is weird, because I’ve always liked reading them. In fact, I discovered sci-fi with a little paperback anthology, The Ninth Galaxy Reader, edited by Frederik Pohl, in … Continue reading
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Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander
It’s 2006 and the sixth novel of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, has just recently won the 2006 Quill Award in the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror category. For some of you, it may be 2007 or beyond, … Continue reading