Jim Butcher Ghost Story, Matthew Stover Caine Love, DEFIANT at Dungeon Manual

Second week of Dungeon Manual, a boring unrecommendable blog I’ve been working.

This week I talked about NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy poll, discussing 5 books that really tug at me that I didn’t see in the top 100. I’ve received some feedback and surprised and relieved at the Caine love I’ve seen. Hope for badass fiction! On the otherhand, kind of shocked at people thinking Tim Powers, Jonathan Carroll, and Patricia McKillip are obscure. I’ll give you Stepan Chapman, but anyone who reads SF/F should know who the first 3 are. A Science Fiction 5 is coming soon!

I shared my thoughts on Jim Butcher’s latest Dresden Files entry, Ghost Story. Look, I know going in fans are going to love everything, but I thought this was a letdown compared to the awesome that was Changes, his last effort. There were some positives though, and you can peep them at the Manual.

A couple more DEFIANT Comics related items. First, a bit of epilogue to my post from last week examining David Lapham’s lost character Mongrel — I added the original art to that piece to my collection! Second, I talked briefly about DEFIANT villains and Jim Shooter’s world building agenda while sharing a new DEFIANT trinket I scooped up.

Coming up: the aforementioned Science Fiction 5, examining George R.R. Martin’s Darkstar of “A Song of Ice and Fire” fame and more!