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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
Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel, editors’ The Future is Queer
I seem to be doing a land-office business in theme anthologies lately. Among these, it seems almost as a matter of course, are a number dealing with issues of gender, sexuality, and sexual identity. The most recent to cross my … Continue reading
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Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light
No’am Newman wrote this review. I first came across the strangely named Roger Zelazny in 1973-4, when I borrowed a friend’s copy of “The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame,” which is composed of short stories published in the pre-Nebula era. … Continue reading
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
Kage Baker’s In the Garden of Iden, Sky Coyote, Mendoza in Hollywood, and The Graveyard Game
The Company series to date consists of four delightful novels that detail the serio-comic (with a very dark edge) adventures of the immortal cyborgs of Dr. Zeus, Inc., a for-profit company that has existed for millennia, giving eternal life to … Continue reading
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Terry Pratchett’s The Truth
The title of the 25th installment in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series is, like nearly everything about the book and the series, a sly reference to something in our own world. “The Truth” is the English translation of the Russian “Pravda,” … Continue reading
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Fred Saberhagen’s Merlin’s Bones
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. Merlin’s Bones, by the prolific Fred Saberhagen, is a wonderful fantasy with touches of science fiction. Saberhagen uses several narrators to tell a story that takes place both in the 21st century and in the … Continue reading
Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon
Wes Unruh wrote this review. Not your average technothriller, Cryptonomicon has nothing to do with the eldritch gods of H. P. Lovecraft. Instead, it is the best treatment of cryptography since Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Gold Bug,” and a hundred … Continue reading
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Stephen Baxter’s Silverhair
Eric Eller wrote this review. How is the world viewed through nonhuman eyes? Authors have looked at the world from the perspective of animals since at least as long ago as Aesop, often with a lesson to tell us about … Continue reading
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