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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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- 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
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- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
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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
- 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
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Tag Archives: science fiction
Andrew Stanton’s John Carter
I missed John Carter in the theaters, but ran across the DVD on one of my browsing trips through Amazon. I figured I’d probably enjoy it, and I found the DVD for half price. How could I say no? Edgar … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, pulp fiction, science fiction
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Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival
Elizabeth Bear has put me in an odd position: I read Blood and Iron, loved it, found it rich, stimulating — altogether an extraordinary book. I’ve now read Carnival, and find myself without much to say. Well, not entirely, but … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s The Chains That You Refuse
I seem to be running across a number of writers for whom the idea of “genre” is as fluid as the idea of a “short story.” Stories are like a painter’s drawings or a composer’s piano studies: they can range … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, science fiction, short fiction
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Robert A. Heinlein’s The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein and The Number of The Beast
Our kind but ever so iron-fisted Editor-in-Chief decreed some time ago that Green Man wouldn’t do science fiction, so we don’t. (And the last person to disobey this edict is still down in the rat-infested cellars below the GMR corporate … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, fantasy, science fiction
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Christopher Paolini’s To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini is known for having started the Eragon series when he was quite young, and falling into a startling amount of success with it. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars represents not only his first novel targeted towards … Continue reading
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Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire, Book One of the Teixcalaanli Empire series
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives at the World City that is at the center of the vast interstellar Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small station, has been murdered. It seems that he got … Continue reading
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Larry Niven’s The Draco Tavern
The Pub as a setting in fantastic literature has long and interesting history. There’s the White Hart in Arthur Clarke’s Tales from The White Hart, Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon in a series of novels by Spider Robinson, Munden’s in Orstrander’s Grimjack series, the … Continue reading
Robert Valentine’s Doctor Who: The Lovecraft Invasion
Doctor Who: The Lovecraft Invasion is Robert Valentine’s look at the famed horror author through the lense of a Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama. Featuring a living weapon that feeds on the fears of its host, the tale quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, mystery, science fiction
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Kimberly Unger’s Nucleation
Nucleation by Kimberly Unger is a science fiction novel that attempts to deal with everything from possible first contact, to nanomachines, to corporate espionage and personal rivalries. This would make the book seem overpacked in other hands, yet is quite … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bear’s Dust
At her best, Elizabeth Bear can deliver the kind of hard-edged poetry that one often searches for in vain in science-fiction. (She also does some hard-nosed fantasy, but that’s for another review.) It may seem strange to talk about “poetry” … Continue reading