Caitlín R. Kiernan’s The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. My Wait is Over.
Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl: A Memoir, is here! The publication date that is. Squee! Yes, her dark fiction is squee worthy.
read moreReview: Redemption in Indigo
A stunning speculative fiction debut -- and a refreshing change from spaceships and swords -- is Karen Lord's novel Redemption in Indigo.
read moreRandom News on Books, Vol. II
Theodore Sturgeon award, John Campbell award, obits, a Bob Mould autobio, Alison Bechdel a professor -- all sorts of random news on books.
read moreObituary: Joel Rosenberg
Author Joel Rosenberg arguably started the trend of writing fantasy novels based on role playing game settings with The Sleeping Dragon. He was 57 when he died June 2.
read moreMythopoeic Society’s 2011 Award Finalists
One might suspect that Mythopoeic Society awards finalists' works would all be elves and orcs, dwarves and goblins and gnomes and whatnot. But that's not necessarily the case.
read more2010 Nebula Award Winners
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced this past weekend this year's Nebula Awards ... er, rather, this year's Nebula awards for books that came out last year ... wait, what?
read moreZoo City
At its core this book is arguably a crime thriller; fortunately for us, it's much more than urban fantasy. Welcome to Lauren Beukes' excellent Zoo City.
read moreA Song of Ice and Fire: Part the Second
Part the second: while its length allows George R. R. Martin to delve deeply into some of his characters, others remain under developed or underutilized in the lengthy epic that is A Song of Ice and Fire.
read moreA Song of Ice and Fire
Let it suffice to say that perhaps Martin doesn't always do gritty realism as well as it could be done (but at times he does), but it is a cut – a detailed, bloody one from groin to collarbone that causes bowels and other assorted entrails to fall out – above the standard bookshelf fare when it comes to quote-unquote realistic fantasy.
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