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Weird and Wonderful: A Red Sun Also Rises by Mark Hodder
There are many possible reasons I pick books to read and review. I always like giving debuts a try. Conversely, I have a long list of favorite authors I’ll read almost anything by. A plot summary that...
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First Clip from the The Hobbit
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City of Dark Magic (Excerpt)
We've got a special excerpt from Magnus Flyte's City of Dark Magic, out now from Penguin Books:Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as...
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Fiction Affliction: “Genre-Benders” for December
Steampunk and Weird West battle Alt History this month for supremacy among the fourteen new genre benders. Be prepared to visit 15th-century Holland, the 1942 Pacific Theatre, 1944 England,...
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It’s Gettin’ Real: A Memory of Light
Hot off the press, the first F&G’s for A Memory of Light. (F&G means “folded and gathered pages.”) To be clear, the printing is not done; it will literally take weeks worth of press time to do...
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Steampunk Events for December 2012
It seems like people fancy the 19th century the most between Halloween and New Year’s. With Victorian Christmas events popping up left and right, who would be better fitted to attend than your local...
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Morning Roundup: The Star Wars Rumor Drinking Game
As the Star Wars rumors mount up, we’ve decided to start the Star Wars Rumor Drinking Game. Here are the rules: any time you read a rumor about the new Star Wars movies anywhere on the internet you...
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The Great Stephen King Re-read: The Stand
The Stand was a landmark book for Stephen King, and not just because it’s the approximate size and weight of an actual landmark. It was the book that ended his contract with Doubleday and landed him...
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Did Christopher Eccleston Just Reveal He’s Returning to Doctor Who?
On November 27th, Red Carpet News TV grabbed a quick red carpet video interview with Christopher Eccleston during the premiere screening for The Oranges on and... may have gotten Eccleston to...
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Happy Birthday, Madeleine L’Engle!
Today would have marked the 94th birthday of an author who forever changed the way we feel about time travel, alternate dimensions, and dark and stormy nights. Madeleine L’Engle was born on November...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Two Fathers”/“One Son”
Season 6, Episodes 11 and 12: “Two Fathers”/“One Son”Original Airdates: February 7 and 14, 1999Okay so we're halfway through season six and it's a mythology two-parter. This is, it's been five and a...
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 3, “A Short Rest”
Welcome back to the chapter-by-chapter re-read of The Hobbit. You can find past posts at the reread index, or you can catch up with our previous re-read of The Lord of the Rings. As always, the...
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The Battle for Seattle Continues in The Inexplicables
The Inexplicables, Cherie Priest’s fourth novel in the Clockwork Century series, breaks from her previous books in several ways. Most significantly, instead of being set in a new location in her Civil...
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Rothfuss Re-read Speculative Summary 16: You May Have Heard of Me
My obsessively detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but the speculation goes on. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things posted since last...
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Neil Gaiman: American Gods Pilot News, and Neverwhere Has The Best Cast Ever!
Two exciting pieces of news from Neil Gaiman: First of all, check out the cast photo above. Who are all these lovely people? Why, they are actors currently recording a Neverwhere Radio Series in...
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Gaming Roundup: Life After Halo, Bungie Embraces a New Destiny
When the Halo franchise changed developmental hands, one of the questions gamers everywhere were left with was: what would Bungie do next? Well, thanks to IGN and an ad agency document leak, now we...
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Listening for Madeleine (Excerpt)
In honor of Madeleine L'Engle's birthday, we have an excerpt from FSG's book Listening For Madeleine: A Portrait of Madeleine L'Engle in Many Voices by Leonard S. Marcus:Writer. Matriarch. Mentor....
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Wombles Against Pollution: The Wombles at Work
‘But, old friend, we Wombles must do what we can. I agree with you entirely that Human Beings are quite ridiculous. They seem to be determined to choke themselves to death, but it’s up to us Wombles —...
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Listening for Madeleine Sweepstakes!
We’ve got so many lovely gifts for Madeleine L’Engle’s birthday that we thought we’d unload one more on you—following that touching excerpt, we have five copies of Listening for Madeleine by Leonard S....
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Fiction Affliction: December Releases in Urban Fantasy
The preternaturals are laying low this month, with only a dozen new urban fantasies hitting the shelves after a busy fall. Still, you’ll find series additions from Tami Dane, Robin D. Owens, Diana...
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