Category: Books
Meet the Author: Fritz Leiber
The fantasy, science fiction, and horror author Fritz Leiber is a man whose creations inspired generations of RPGs and […]
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Read This: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is N.K. Jemisin’s ambitious debut novel, and the first of her Inheritance trilogy. Set in […]
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They Bite: Anthony Boucher’s Weirder Western
While I’m on the subject of Western horror…I mentioned Anthony Boucher’s “They Bite” in my review of Bone Tomahawk—not […]
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Read This: Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology
Nothing like a new year for ringing in the Old Ones! Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology is one of […]
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Read This: A Manhattan Ghost Story
As I mentioned in my previous post, my first encounter with the late T.M. Wright was his 1984 novel […]
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Read This: The Last Vampire
The horror author T. M. Wright passed away on Halloween. By pure coincidence I had just reread his 1991 […]
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Read This : Blade of the Destroyer
Today, I’d like to review a work by a new author. The Last Bucelarii (Book 1): Blade of the Destroyer […]
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Read This: The Stress of Her Regard
The Stress of Her Regard is a cheerfully well-written, rollicking, swashbuckling, action-and-garlic packed adventure, a sometimes-loopy page turner, and a very different view of vampires than is today’s standard.
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Read This: The Peripheral
The Peripheral happens in two futures—the first a resource-depleted one not far from our present, and the second a depopulated but vastly rich time about seventy years further on. Certain wealthy, second-future ‘continua enthusiasts’ utilize secret Chinese servers through which they can contact and manipulate the past for their own gain.
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Read This: Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger
Goldfinger’s literary James Bond has an internal ambivilence that many of the big screen Bond’s ignore. While both books and films have reveled in plot twists and gagetry, Ian Fleming fleshed out his character in a way that only the last three films (and I am certain Spectre, too) have begun to seriously tap in to.
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