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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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- 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
Becky Chamber’s A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chamber’s A Psalm for the Wild-Built is wonderful. A short volume in what is labelled as hopepunk, it succeeds in drawing the reader to what feels a fully thought out and developed setting. It is a slim volume, not … Continue reading
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Martha Wells’ Fugitive Telemetry
By the end of Chapter 5 of Fugitive Telemetry, the 2021 installment in Martha Wells’ award-winning series The Murderbot Diaries, I was having some deep thoughts about artificial intelligence. (Or what passes for deep thoughts in my aging cranium.) I … Continue reading
J.S. Dewes’ The Last Watch
J.S. Dewes’ The Last Watch is the first novel in a planned series. It combines an imperial setting in the far future in familiar manner, and as a result Dewes needs more to distinguish her work. Fortunately good plotting and an … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s Machine
Elizabeth Bear is playing a long game in Machine, the second installment in her White Space series. The series is shaping up to be an exploration of those dark places – not to say dystopian spaces – that are always … Continue reading
Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit
Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit is a romantic sci-fi novel and the premier work of the author. It is, for the moment, standalone, and a well paced, narratively satisfying volume. The setting features a combination of interplanetary travel and detailed political … Continue reading
Bruce Sterling’s Robot Artists & Black Swans
Bruce Sterling’s Robot Artists & Black Swans represents a fascinating concept. A set of science fiction stories told by a fictional Italian author from an Italian point of view. Coming from a classic master of cyberpunk, such a collection is … Continue reading
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Naomi Kritzer’s Catfishing on CatNet
Naomi Kritzer’s Catfishing on CatNet is one of those really kind, sweet, human novels where everyone except the villain is doing their best. They make mistakes – “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” could be this book’s … Continue reading
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Larry Niven and Steve Barnes’ Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, and The California Voodoo Game
Gaming in many forms has been part of the fandom community for decades now, so it’s not surprising that one of the best-known authors in the science fiction field would decide to do a series built upon the idea of … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Bear’s Ancestral Night
Elizabeth Bear is one of our favorite and most reviewed authors here at GMR, so I’m a little chagrined to admit that Ancestral Night is the first book of hers that I’ve read. It’s also the first ebook that I’ve … Continue reading
Larry Niven’s Rainbow Mars
Ah, to visit John Carter and the inhabitants of Barsoom, Edger Rice Burroughs’ richly imagined Mars. The characters in Robert Heinlein’s The Number of The Beast did so, in their travels across the multiverse, and now the protaganist of Rainbow … Continue reading