Finch Insurgency!
The latest from the author behind some of my favorite books, like City of Saints and Madmen, Veniss Underground, Shriek: An Afterword is taking over the world in November! Finch has both been reviewed at BSC and appeared on Tomio’s Want List. BSC has secured pamphlets “supposedly created by the rebels to track down the discredited puppet government in Ambergris.” Note the blank space, your card can be pulled at any moment!
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer – review
So you don’t read fantasy. You heart mystery and crime fiction but haven’t touched a fantasy book since that one summer when you devoured Lord of the Rings. Well, let me tell you that things have changed since then. The SF/F genre has a long history of crossing genre borders, and right here, right now, in 2009, people are starting to notice. Earlier in the year China Mieville wrote a cool police procedural fantasy (The City and The City), and Richard Kadrey wrote a hardboiled fantasy called Sandman Slim that would make even the most wild-eyed of the basement noir crazies stand up and take notice. Jeff VanderMeer closes out the year with a secondary world fantasy, filtered through noir sensibilities, that is, hands down, the best of the bunch.
Read the full review after the jump…
Jeff VanderMeer – more ‘Finch’ & ‘Last Drink Bird Head’
A couple of recent items over at Jeff VanderMeer’s site caught my eye. They involve two projects we’ve talked about at BSC previously (and will do so again in the future). We mentioned Last Drink Bird Head last month, the return of the Ministry of Whimsy featuring over 70 top writers with benefits going to ProLiteracy. Way back in May we also briefly touched on VanderMeer’s Finch in an edition of Tomio’s Want List. Jeff has now posted a couple of new looks at both projects, and at BSC we like stacks of books (we only deal in bulk at the Empire).
Check them out after the jump…
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Simon Drax to write next Wovel from Underland
BSC has some exclusive news for you on Underland Press’s next wovel author and another exciting project.
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The Electric Mayhem: Gunpowder
In this edition of The Electric Mayhem I review three recent releases: The Coldest Mile by Tom Piccirilli, The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay and The Pilo Family Circus.
The Electric Mayhem: Ghost Wiring
In this edition of The Electric Mayhem Charlie Huston, Joe Lansdale and Brian Evenson meet up in Donald Ray Pollock’s hometown of Kockemstiff to discuss The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death needed to clean up after Leather Maiden’s Last Days.
News – Finch Unveiled by VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer has just posted the cover art to his next novel novel, Finch.
Finch is the third novel in VanderMeer’s Ambergris Cycle. . .
News – The Finch that Stole Christmas!
We noted that earlier in the week Jeff VanderMeer gave us a taste via excerpt of his forthcoming novel Finch. Today, there is a new one up! A publisher, publicist, author, or artist and have news or announcements you think should be noted at BookSpot Central? Email us at admin@fantasybookspot.com and let us decide!
News – New Wovel up at Underland Press
I don’t know how many read the first wovel from Underland Press, Kealan Patrick Burke’s The Living. But it proved to be in the end one hell of a ride. So, what is a Wovel? Part choose your own adventure books for the new millennium and all grown up; part serial pulp adventure; all awesome. [...]
