Category Archives: Books and Literature

Review: American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Cover Blurb: Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is … Continue reading

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Review: The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss – Enter to Win Signed Books!

Kingkiller Chronicles reviewed by Heather Magaw. See below for special giveaway. Title: The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) Author: Patrick Rothfuss Publisher: DAW Trade Print Ed: Reprint edition – April 7, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0756405892 Details: 672 Pages … Continue reading

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Special Review: Ghost Story (Dresden Files, No. 13) by Jim Butcher

HOME / CHICAGO / AFTER DEATH NOTICES / SPOILERS* Wizard City Tribune Harry Dresden Is Dead and Kickin’ by Erin Underwood July 26, 2011 CHICAGO – Harry Dresden, Chicago’s resident wizard-for-hire, has been reported missing and is suspected dead. Dresden … Continue reading

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Review: Fractal Despondency by Trent Zelezny

Author: Trent Zelazny Publisher: Black Curtain Press Print Ed: June 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1617203909 Details: 76 Pages | Paperback | $6.99 ~ Publisher’s Blurb: Was she an angel from above, or a walking time bomb of doom? His life having crumbled, … Continue reading

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Supernatural Noir – Enter to Win a Signed Copy!

Award winning editor Ellen Datlow is giving away 5 (YES! FIVE!) signed copies of her new anthology Supernatural Noir. The copies will be signed by Ellen Datlow and several of the contributing authors including Gregory Frost, Jeffrey Ford, John Langan, Rick Bowes, … Continue reading

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Growing Up YA Lit-Style: A Personal Essay

Ilsa J. Bick, MD, a child psychologist and YA author, recently published an article on the Hunger Mountain site in which she responds to a pair of essays by Meghan Cox Gurdon, Children’s Reviewer for the Wall Street Journal, who … Continue reading

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Review: Water to Burn by Katharine Kerr

Author: Katharine Kerr Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Print Date: August 02, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0756406912 Details: 336 pages | Paperback | $7.99 ~ In Water to Burn, the second Nola O’Grady Novel, Katharine Kerr hits the page with a well written story that takes off from … Continue reading

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Exploring the eFrontier: A Strangeways Interview with James Patrick Kelly

People who know James Patrick Kelly know he’s always up to something clever and new – a sign that we’re talking about a creative science fiction writer, if ever there was one! A couple of years ago, Kelly took the … Continue reading

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Postcard Story #0: In Which Will Ludwigsen is Interviewed

Will Ludwigsen is a talented speculative fiction writer who has placed some terrific stories in magazines such as Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Asimov’s Science Fiction as well as the Interfictions 2 anthology. For … Continue reading

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Review: Game of Thrones: Season One

Reviewed by Hannah Strom-Martin Author’s Note: There have been endless recaps and thematic analysis of Game of Thrones, the new HBO television show based on the Song of Ice and Fire Novels by author George R.R. Martin.  The Thrones blogging … Continue reading

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