Reseñas de libros: El Asesino de Notre Dame y Muerte en la Ciudad Luz.
A review of the Lenin Solano Ambía trilogy
Anime roundup 7/13/2017: Mystery Box
In this week’s viewing: Another week of premieres has a bit of everything, from the good to the bad to the what the heck just happened there…
Review: This Ray Gun for Hire . . . and Other Tales by John M. Whalen
If Quentin Tarantino wrote a western space opera, you would end up with something like John M. Whalen’s raucous “This Ray Gun for Hire . . . and Other Tales.”
Review: Casefile: ARKHAM – Nightmare on the Canvas
Casefile: ARKHAM – Nightmare on the Canvas is the dark, mesmerizing graphic novel stables of 01 Publishing that fandom has needed for long time.
REVIEWS: MIDNIGHT SPECIAL and AURORA GRAPHIC NOVEL NOMINEES!
This week Steve does short reviews of a new movie plus five (5!) Aurora Award nominees for Graphic Novel… and asks for your consideration as well.
VIZ MEDIA BRINGS BACK ACCLAIMED JAPANESE CRIME THRILLER GOTH
In GOTH, Morino is the strangest girl in school – how could she not be, given her obsession with brutal murders?
Review: Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler
Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler is the quintessential example of a guilty pleasure. You might feel a little guilty afterwards, but you’ll be anxiously awaiting a sequel.
Glen Orbik – 1963-2015
The world of illustration lost a real treasure this past week when artist Glen Orbik lost his long battle with cancer on May 11th.
Reseña de Libros: Las Novelas Policiales de Lenin Solano Ambía
Meet Peruvian author Lenin Ambía Solano, crime writer
Review: Batman 66’ Meets the Green Hornet
The dynamic duo of DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment brings fans of two iconic super hero teams together in this exciting six issue comic series, Batman 66’ Meets the Green Hornet.
Small Press Review: The Peyti Crisis by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Peyti Crisis: Rusch deftly manages to handle a large cast of characters without missing a beat
Small Press Book Review: A Murder of Clones by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Rusch pulls off another taught thriller with A Murder of Clones.
Scide Splitters: Working Stiff by Kevin J. Anderson
Scide Splitters reviews seven fun filled cases from the files of Dan Shamble, Zombie Private Investigator.
2014: A Reading Odyssey – Part 2
Gary Dalkin completes his survey of the books he read in 2014
2014: A Reading Odyssey – Part 1
a short recap of my 2014 in books. Where I reviewed a book for Amazing Stories I have provided a link to that review, and in one case to a related interview. So here, in chronological order, are the first 21 books I read in 2014.
Winter 2015 SF Anime Preview Guide
Coming up at the top of the year: a serious amount of weird. Even for the anime world…
AMAZING NEWS: 7-27-14
Wiscon, women, black SF authors, Crom, Loncon3, UAE Mars Mission, SpaceX and more!
Retrospective: A Minority Verdict Against Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
Upon release in 2002 the film Minority Report, nominally based on a story by Philip K. Dick, received almost universally ecstatic reviews. I was among the minority of dissenting voices, and what follows, my minority retort
Review: R.E.M. by Ryan Colucci
R.E.M. by Ryan Colucci takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through the darker side of dreams and beyond.
Award Winners: Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
Nova Swing (2006) won both the Arthur C. Clarke and the Philip K. Dick Awards and was nominated for the Campbell and British Fantasy Awards. Gary Dalkin looks back at this true space oddity.
Review – Noir, edited by Ian Whates
This all started out as a single simple project, but, as so often happens, the concept evolved. The initial idea was to publish a collection of stories, each featuring a femme fatale, but on reflection that seemed too restrictive…
Review: Fiddlehead by Cherie Priest
For those who know the work of Cherie Priest, you know she can write. For those not familiar with her work, you’re missing out on something special. The novel Fiddlehead may be billed as the final installment in her “The Clockwork Century” Steampunk collection, but the author’s talent for story telling also makes it a worthy place to start if you’re so inclined.
Review: The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Prisoner of Heaven is actually what you get when a stand-alone novel sells 15 million copies and the author decides to write sequels without a worthwhile new story to tell.
Review – Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Gary Dalkin reviews a novel that wants to be – ought to be – a movie
La cocina de la ciencia ficción
Susana reports on the International Meeting (for) Narrative Science Fiction, Fantasy and Black Series, an international convention.
Ciencia ficción venezolana: Fedosy Santaella y una distopía
Review of Las peripecias inéditas de Teofilus Jones by Fedosy Santaella.
Scide Splitters: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next, the plucky female lead character of The Eyre Affair, is a literary detective in an alternate 1985 England.
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