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Strange Chemistry brews up star-studded reviews for its debut books
Strange Chemistry Books, the new Young Adult imprint cloven from the titanium husk of parent Angry Robot, has a slew of recently reviewed, upcoming SF&F titles. What’s even shinier, the books have garnered a smorgasbord of fresh-off-the-skillet five star reviews from … Continue reading
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T. Rex meets Klaatu. Fisticuffs ensue.
So…here we have…the Dinosaurs vs Aliens Motion Comic. Hmmm. It’s Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld and comic book great Grant Morrison’s unlikely mash up of what has to be two of the surest bets in the realms of pop-culture/kid-in-all-of-us … Continue reading
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Strange Chemistry Books adds Zenn Scarlett to their seething spec fiction mix…
Was able to start my day today with the news that editor Amanda Rutter has announced the acquisition of my Zenn Scarlett young adult science fiction series by Strange Chemistry Books. I alluded to this in an earlier post and … Continue reading
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The art of the as-yet unreal.
Science fiction & fantasy book covers, magazine illustrations and film posters are some of the most reliably awesome well-springs of artwork that, well… that you just won’t see anywhere else. Every year, the Chesley Awards spotlight the alien/elvish goodness of … Continue reading
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The coming andro-pocalypse. RUReady?
Robots. They’re already insinuating themselves into our lives in all sorts of sinister ways. They build our cars, fly our airplanes, do a little cleaning. But when they finally make their move and take over, you’ll wish you’d treated … Continue reading
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Space-Guy crashes the Big Apple party…
The New Yorker takes a giant leap for geek-kind… and dedicates its entire Summer Fiction Issue to – can ya grok it? – science fiction! The annual summertime fiction edition is eagerly awaited by chi-chi beach-goers everywhere, so this is … Continue reading
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Home is where the green-blood-pumping heart is…
Aliens invade the Earth! Humans mount heroic-but-hopeless resistance! The White House… vaporized! It’s a time-honored SF scenario, stretching back to the genre’s puppyhood, with badness-from-the-skies like H.G. Wells’ venerable War of the Worlds. And, frankly, I’ve always been … Continue reading
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What’s the Next Big Thing? Or: I See A Tall Dark Carbon-Based Life Form in Your Future…
So, how big… is big? One of the more popular (and never-ending) games in publishing, and the entertainment industry in general, is “What’s the next Big Thing?” It’s right up there with “What Should We Call Our Band?” Of course, … Continue reading
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Internet, schminternet…. Books Shockingly NOT Dead.
How many times have you heard that the net has sucked every last drop of inky-black blood from the veins of our poor old novels and books and reading-by-short-attention-span-humans in general? Well, turns out it just ain’t so. In … Continue reading
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Death and the maiden: The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Publisher: Knopf Year: 2007 Pages: 576 First off, this isn’t a review of Zusak’s marvelous book. It’s a query, of sorts. I suspect many of you out there have already … Continue reading
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