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- What’s New for the 26th of July:
- 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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Fireplaces in Kinrowan Hall
- What’s New for the 18th of January: World music and fiction by Amal El-Mohtar
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bridges and Paths plus a Troll
Tag Archives: urban fantasy
Bill Willingham’s Jack of Fables: The (Nearly) Great Escape, and Jack of Hearts
Bill Willingham author, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins and Andrew Pepoy artists Jack of Fables is very much a “your mileage may vary” sort of series. Whether or not you like it depends pretty much entirely on whether or not you … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, urban fantasy
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Bill Willingham’s Fables: The Good Prince
Bill Willingham author; Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Aaron Alexovich, Andrew Pepoy artists When a series is as consistently excellent as Fables, it can be extremely difficult to decide which is the finest issue or volume. However, The Good Prince, the … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables, Volume 6: Homelands, and Volume 7: Arabian Nights (and Days)
Bill Willingham’s wonderfully developed series about fairy tales living among us today (see Fables 1-2 and 3-5) extends two more volumes with Homelands and Arabian Nights. Artists on Homelands are Mark Buckingham, David Hahn and Steve Leialoha; artists on Arabian … Continue reading
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Neal Asher’s Brass Man
Here at the Green Man corporate offices, we spend a lot of time in meetings with statistics and pie charts, trying to determine just what exactly it is that we review here. Fantasy, folklore, and a bit of history seems … Continue reading
Ilona Andrews’s Magic Bites and Magic Burns
In the semi-near future, Atlanta has become a strange and dangerous place to live. Waves of magic sweep over the world with unpredictable frequency, canceling out all things technological for the length of their duration. The supernatural is in full … Continue reading
F. Paul Wilson’s The Haunted Air
As I said in my omnibus look at the previous volumes in this series, ‘Sometimes why we review something here at Green Man is as interesting as what we review. I honestly had not planned on reviewing this series, as … Continue reading
Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream
Cody Goodfellow & Joseph S. Pulver Sr.’s New Maps of Dream is an anthology that also serves as a love letter to the Deamlands stories of H.P. Lovecraft and others. Filled with carefully chosen stories themed after dreams and a … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables Vol. 8: Wolves
This eighth installment of Bill Willingham’s long-running series of fairy tale characters alive and well in our world (and at war with a fierce Adversary) finds Mowgli of Jungle Book fame still hunting down the Big Bad Wolf on behalf … Continue reading
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Bill Willingham’s Fables Seventy-Five
Break out the champagne! Fables has reached issue number 75! I don’t recall us ever reviewing a single issue of an ongoing series, nor do our master review indexes — as maintained by our Library staff — show that we … Continue reading
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P. Djèlí Clark’s A Master of Djinn audiobook
I’ve been looking forward to P. Djèlí Clark writing a full length novel in what he is now calling his ongoing Dead Djinn series ever since I first listened to The Haunting of Tram Car 015 and A Dead Djinn in Cairo, both … Continue reading
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Tagged dark fantasy, urban fantasy
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