Intro I don’t read that many comics or graphic novels to be honest, though I do have a few on my shelves. Looking now, I can see Berserk and Blacksad, comic continuations of both Avatar: The Last Airbender and Firefly, and Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts. I picked up a copy of I Kill Giants, written …
I finished reading The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang recently. For those who are unaware, it’s a grimdark fantasy tale that pulls a lot of its material from China’s past several hundred years or so of history, in particular the Sino-Japanese conflicts and the Opium Wars. It is dark, with the depicted events all the …
It’s been a busy time over here, with the many fantasy and sci-fi stories I’ve read or watched or played stacking up like cordwood near an unlit campfire. So, grab a chair and take a seat, because this fire is about to be lit, and these stories burn bright and quick. As we watch the …
Revelation Space, the circa 2000 science fiction novel by the author Alastair Reynolds, is another book I read based on the recommendation of a friend, the same friend, in fact, who recommended Hyperion by Dan Simmons. These are two very different books, even if they are both science fiction, and they each held within different …
I read the book Hyperion by Dan Simmons based on the recommendation of a friend who described it as the Canterbury tales in space. It was an intriguing sell to be sure, and I can’t believe it took me so long to get to this incredible tale of interstellar pilgrims coming to meet a metallurgical …
If I’d been asked to pick my favorite author during high school, it probably would have been Stephen King. I read my fair share of his horror classics during this time: The Stand, The Shining, It, The Long Walk, Cell, Under the Dome, etc. I grew up amongst the corn fields of southern Indiana and …
Hey all. I got the Kirkus review for The Work of Restless Nights, and believe it or not there was nary a negative comment to be found! This one had me nervous, I’ll admit. The whole setup for self-published authors, any author really, is primed for inducing anxiety. You pay Kirkus a not so insubstantial …
Adaptations are on my mind. No real surprise there. We certainly have a profundity of them these days. Not that I’m complaining. I adore getting the chance to see that which was relegated to my mind’s eye given new form. In the recent past I’ve watched the new One Piece live action, the Cowboy Bebop …
A nine month streak fades, and, with any luck, a longer one begins. My apologies on missing the July post. It’s been hectic, to say the least. What with publishing my novel and preparing for a trip to New Zealand and Australia for the Women’s World Cup, things have been a bit busy. As to …
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I hadn’t read the seminal sci-fi novel Dune until recently. I’ve been told Dune is to sci-fi what Lord of the Rings is to fantasy. Given Dune‘s impact, it’s not an unfair comparison. Having written a sci-fi novel myself due to be published here in just a few weeks, …
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