There are many pro writers out there worried by piracy, who see the internet as the greatest illegal intellectual land-grab of all time. Here’s the deal: if you’re worried enough to want to stop it, …
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West Coast Blues by Jacques Tardi and Jean-Patrick Manchette Review
Jean-Patrick Manchette was a French crime novelist who wrote 10 novels. He is held in the highest possible regard by his English-speaking audience. To date only two of his novels have been translated. Let me …
Continue reading30 Rock – Interview: Savanna Samson on Her Appearance
Vivid Girl Savanna Samson gave us the scoop on her appearance on 30 Rock. The episode was “Into the Crevasse,” which aired last night on NBC. Can you describe what it was like to walk on the …
Continue readingTop 50 Favorite Novels of the Decade: 2000-2009
Not too long ago I decided to make a list of my top 10 favorite books of the decade, from 2000-2009. I easily knocked out a list with a couple of dozen titles then decided …
Continue readingThe 7-part Interview Series with R.A. Salvatore continues
When you think of the most popular character from the Wizards of the Coast stable, I do not think there is much debate. Drizzt Do’Urden leads the pack. Today we have R.A. Salvatore answering some questions we had …
Continue readingQuatrain + Fortune and Fate + Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn Review
Quatrain is a collection of, as the name suggests, four all-new novellas from Sharon Shinn. Each is set in a distinct world established from previous books, and each story stands firmly against the others. Shinn …
Continue readingThe Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville Review
Those who believe that the short story is dead and/or irrelevant, and those who don’t see the value in publishing stories in e-zines that pay very little, if at all, to a circulation that is in …
Continue readingNotes on Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
I’m picking my way through Inherent Vice, and I’m not even quarter of the way through it yet but I wanted to post some informal thoughts. By the end of the first chapter I was …
Continue readingScience Fiction and Why It Needs Secret Decoder Rings – Gary Gibson Guest BLog
It does seem like the eternal war between SF and the mainstream just goes on and on and on, doesn’t it? One minute you think it’s dead and buried, the next it’s climbing back out of …
Continue readingElena’s World – Zombieland review
The best romantic comedy of the year! I make that claim with only about 5% facetiousness. Zombieland, despite its name and premise (a pair of unlikely allies making their way through an America overrun with …
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To the Water Fountains – Notes from New Sodom
Hal Duncan on discovering Samuel Delany, punk rock, the Ramones and Burroughs
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