It appears the melee of my first week on the job was an attempt to scare me off. Since it obviously didn’t work, things quieted down here a bit this week. Here’s a quick run-down of our original content since last weekend, your weekly cheat-sheet to make sure you didn’t miss something awesome:
Events
Damon revisited the New York Renaissance Faire for the first time in years–on Pirate Invasion Weekend, no less!–and brought us back a full report, with two pages of pictures to back up his tall tales
Book Reviews
Bryan discussed James P. Blaylock’s return to Steampunk in his new novel The Ebb Tide
amberdrake shared her thoughts on the short story collection Strange Brew, edited by P.N. Elrod
dragonwomant gave us a glimpse into the alternate-history SF world of Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson
I took a look at Evermore by Alyson Noël, the first in her new young adult series The Immortals
Professor Crazy tangled with the strange alternate-history future of Thomas Harlan’s In the Time of the Sixth Sun series with his review of Land of the Dead
Brian reviewed a new book from new imprint Vertigo Crime, Filthy Rich by Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos
The Week in Television
Mark took a look at Mad Men: “The Fog”
PLMIII delivered the juice on True Blood‘s Season 2 finale, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”
Eli gave us some deep analysis (or something) on Sons of Anarchy season 2, episode 2, “Small Tears”
Matt took us back into the musical hit of the fall, Glee, with episode 3, “Acafellas”
Gerald So rebooted his enjoyment of Bones with the season 5 premiere, “Harbingers in the Fountain”
My thoughts on The Vampire Diaries’ second episode, “Night of the Comet”
PLMIII talks Abrams-plot-drops and more for the season premiere of Fringe, “A New Day in the Old Town”
Columns
Keith Rawson put the spotlight on some writers about to make The Leap from online shorts to print novels with Short Thoughts on Short Fiction Volume 11
Medora brought us excellent in-depth looks at the best manga guidebooks in her September installment of Mangakissa
Matt Cibula debuted his new music column, 47 Miles of Barbed Wire, with an introduction covering his best albums, songs, concerts, and more
Irregular Contributors
Special thanks to Michael Hanlon for adding his hot sauce to the BSC Review gumbo this week! He gave us some insight into his reasons behind writing his new book, Eternity: Our Next Billion Years, and what the project is all about.
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