SYNERGY – Back in the Day Gems?
Synergy is back! This is the third installment of the feature, and the first under the BSCreview banner! For newcomers, the basic gist is that one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to. Beyond that, we go out and adopt talented outsiders who choose to become BSC la familia to participate. The question fielded this month was given to us by Brian, and we are taking it back today rekindling memories of our favorite childhood gems; be it movies, books, TV, comics whatever. We have a great field today full of award winning and hot new talented writers that include Charles Stross and Ken Scholes, to one of my all time favorite comic creators in Colleen (A Distant Soil) Doran, and we get Trekkie (and Fifth Element) credentials with Sonita Henry joining us who most recently was in the Abram’s Star Trek movie, that’s just taking over box office bragging rights!
I hope you all enjoy . . .
Book Review – The Jennifer Morgue
Author: Charles Stross Binding: Paperback Publisher: Ace Trade Publication Date: January 6, 2009 Cover Art: Mark Fredrickson Just about everyone has heard the phrase, “The name is Bond. James Bond.” Now try saying, “The name is Howard. Bob Howard.” Hmm… Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it? Bob Howard is a demonology [...]
News – Charles Stross signing in Edinburgh
Pan Macmillan sent out a message yesterday that Charles Stross will be conducting a signing just in time for the holidays! CHARLES STROSS will be signing copies of THE CLAN CORPORATE the new book in the Merchant Princes series Waterstone’s West End, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh On Thursday 11th December, 6pm Free tickets available in [...]
Book Review – Halting State
Author: Charles Stross Cover Artist: Sophie Toulouse Publisher: ACE Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October, 2007 Halting State is Charles Stross most recent published effort, published by Ace Books (US) in 2007 and by Orbit (UK) in January of this year. The book features, as you would expect from a science fiction work, a number of [...]
On the Spot at BSC – Charles Stross interview (2008)
First off, I’d like to thank Charles Stross for agreeing to this interview and welcome him back (we’ve had him before in 2005) as our guest On the Spot. For those unaware of his existence, Charles Stross has written a number of prolific works ranging from fantasy (his Merchant Princes series) and Lovecraftian horror (The [...]
Book Review – The Clan Corporate
Author: Charles Stross Cover Artist: Paul Youll Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May 2006 The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross, the third book in the Merchant Princes series, continues to follow journalist Miriam Beckstein. In the previous installments, Miriam discovered she actually belonged to a family of “world-walkers,” a clan of sorts that lived [...]
Book Review – The Hidden Family
Author: Charles Stross Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: June 2005 In the first book of the Merchant Princes, The Family Trade, Stross introduced a family of world-hopping entrepreneurs, who have leveraged their abilities to form a vast import/export corporation. We are also introduced to Miriam Beckstein, a long-lost daughter of the family who was [...]
Book Review – The Family Trade
Author: Charles Stross Publisher: Tor Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2005 ust as she’s fired from her job, fumbling about for freelance reporting assignments to meet her bills, Miriam Beckstein discovers a secret about her birth family — they are dimension-hopping merchants who traffic in rare commodities between our own world and their native one, an [...]
On the Spot at BSC – Charles Stross interview
This week, our ‘On the Spot’ guest is Charles Stross, who is having one hell of a good year. The versatile author is nominated for this years Hugo for Best Novel for Singularity Sky, not has 2 novellas nominated for the Best Novella of the year. He is also nominated by Locus for both Best [...]
