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Despite having a whole bunch of stuff to do this month, I naturally managed to squeeze in a few books here and there — otherwise I’d be an utter failure as a human being and bibliophile, yes? A few of the books I won’t mention — they’re top secret — as they will end up [...]
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Another reprint review over at the Black Gate site this week, this one also from the last issue. It’s a review of a very fun alt-history Weird Western called Pax Dakota from Ken Rand, which treats us to an agnostic Amerindian and a Prairie Prostitute battling the disembodied corpse-possessing spirit of the Old Enemy. It’s [...]
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Over at Black Gate today I’ve put up my review of Steven Brust’s Jhegaala,which originally appeared in Black Gate #13. With the next in the venerable series, Iorich, due for release in January of next year, I thought it would be a good time to talk about the most recent book.
For anyone not familiar with [...]
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November proved an eclectic and productive reading period for me — even if I didn’t get much else done. I started things off with Italian fabulist Italo Calvino’s excellently mesmerizing Invisible Cities, a series of imaginative prose-poem meditations on memory and semiotics wrapped up in a spiraling chapter structure. It’s the sort of thing that [...]
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Whereas last October found me in Bradbury country, this time around I was busy finishing review books for the next Black Gate, and sneaking in a few anthologies and novels at the end of the month to serve as a change of pace.
As I mentioned last month, I have the pleasure of reviewing the two [...]
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After a month or so of slacking on my Blog Gate responsibilities, I have returned like MacArthur to the Philippines, sans corncob pipe, with a post all about book reviewing: Writing Book Reviews — How and Why. Since a great deal of my time lately has been going into reviews for the next issue of [...]
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This month has primarily been about reading books for the review section of the upcoming issue of Black Gate. So, aside from a Hellboy graphic novel I snuck in at the beginning of the month, and Iain M. Banks’ Against A Dark Background which I read on the plane to and from Atlanta (and which [...]
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If I were to list all the books my grubby ink-stained fingers have rifled through this last month I’d bore us both before too long. From the book on Late Antiquity by a nineteenth century German historian I gave up on half-way through, to the crop of anthologies that now sit on my shelves sprouting [...]
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