Category: Books
Read This: Hugh Howey’s Wool
In my experience, the bigger the hype, the bigger the disappointment. And so it is with Hugh Howey’s Wool, […]
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Children of Men: Two Sides to the Story
When it comes to adaptations, I am normally a stickler for the purity of the source material (I’m looking […]
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Read This: Cuckoo’s Egg
The cuckoo is a bird best known for laying a single egg among the clutch of another species, in […]
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Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex: Superman Up Close
Superman may be the Man of Steel, but a Man of Steel does not live by heroism alone. In […]
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Read This: The Art of Language Invention
The Art of Language Invention by David J. Peterson is a short, information-packed guide to creating imaginary languages for […]
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Rats in the Walls and Rat God: Variations on a Theme
‘The Rats in the Walls”, published in Weird Tales in March, 1924, is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s essentially non-mythos […]
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Read This: The Elric Saga
Elric of Melniboné and his terrible sword Stormbringer made their first appearance in Michael Moorcock’s elaborate and fluid multiverse […]
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Meet the Author: Fritz Leiber
The fantasy, science fiction, and horror author Fritz Leiber is a man whose creations inspired generations of RPGs and […]
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Read This: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is N.K. Jemisin’s ambitious debut novel, and the first of her Inheritance trilogy. Set in […]
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They Bite: Anthony Boucher’s Weirder Western
While I’m on the subject of Western horror…I mentioned Anthony Boucher’s “They Bite” in my review of Bone Tomahawk—not […]
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