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Tag Archives: urban fantasy
Chris Marie Green’s Night Rising: Vampire Babylon, Book 1
While recovering from the near-career suicidal move of assaulting a major movie star (he had it coming), stuntwoman Dawn Madison is contacted by an unusual Hollywood PI firm Limpet and Associates, because her father has gone missing. And even though … Continue reading
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Martin H. Greenberg and Brittany A. Koren, Ed.s’ Single White Vampire Seeks Same
Naomi de Bruyn wrote this review. Some people spend their entire life looking for love and never, ever find it. Love is elusive, and oft times very fickle; it can be an impossible task to find one’s “soul-mate.” And that … Continue reading
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Ekaterina Sedia, editor’s Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy
Deborah J. Brannon wrote this review. Paper Cities is a collection of urban fantasy in the truest sense of the term: stories of the fantastic from or about the city and all the wonderment and horror that entails. I imagine … Continue reading
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Charlaine Harris’s Dead As A Doornail
Y’know, life for Sookie Stackhouse just keeps getting more and more complicated. It’s hard enough being a telepathic barmaid in a small Louisiana town, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In the past year, she’s been forced to … Continue reading
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Francesca Lia Block’s Dangerous Angels
Rebecca Scott wrote this review. Our stories can set us free, Dirk thought. When we set them free. This book includes: Weetzie Bat (1989), Witch Baby (1991), Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys (1992), Missing Angel Juan (1993), and Baby … Continue reading
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Alan Moore’s Promethea: Book One
If you don’t know Alan Moore, you don’t know modern fantasy. At least, you don’t know vibrant, witty, sexy, brutal, erudite, mind-blowing, cutting-edge modern fantasy. And you certainly don’t know comics. Alan Moore is the author of the exhaustively researched, … Continue reading
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Robin McKinley’s Sunshine
Robin McKinley is well known for her wonderful re-tellings of fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast and Rose Daughter), “Donkeyskin” (Deerskin) and “Sleeping Beauty” (Spindle’s End), as … Continue reading
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Lisa Goldstein’s The Alchemist’s Door
Jason Erik Lundberg wrote this review. Lisa Goldstein writes stories about magic and illusionists and countries that may not exist. She blends true history with fictionalized fantasy. She sees conspiracies and coincidences where none should occur. She is sometimes mistaken … Continue reading
Lisa Goldstein’s Walking the Labyrinth
Marian McHugh wrote this review. Molly Travers leads a simple life. She works for a temp agency; she has a friend who looks after her, Robyn Ann; and then there is Peter, a freelance journalist and the man she loves, … Continue reading
Emma Bull and Will Shetterly’s War for The Oaks screenplay
EDDI – Fairies aren’t real. They’re just – POOKA – Fairy tales? Did you think the stories sprang from nothing? The people of the Timeless Kingdom watched mortal Man learn to walk upright. Excerpt from the the War for The … Continue reading →