Elevator pitch for In The Vanisher’s Palace: lesbian Beauty and the Beast and the beast is a dragon. Although it had ME at “new book by Aliette de Bodard” — Carl Rigney (@carlrigney) October 16, 2018 That was the tweet that got me to immediately buy a copy of Aliette de Bodard’s latest book. It’s
Only a few more days until NC Comiccon: Bull City begins! This year’s panels have a little something for everyone, including story writing discussions, cosplay tips, horror how-to’s, and conversations with a few of your favorite creators, including the author of Fight Club: Chuck Palahniuk! Click the jump for a rundown of all the panels
For each of man’s evils, there exists a special demon. There’s a new chapter to the Pumpkinhead story! Written by Cullen Bunn (Venomized and Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe) and illustrated by Blacky Shepherd (Voltron – From the Ashes), the graphic novel collects five issues of the Pumpkinhead series, and tells the story of another
I read this book months ago and meant to write a review, but I kept putting it off, because in the end I didn’t think the book was very good, but I’m such a John Varley fan I didn’t want to admit it. Here’s some random thoughts I jotted down when I was planning an
I enjoyed C. Robert Cargill’s robot apocalypse novel Sea of Rust so much that I snatched up his latest book We Are Where The Nightmares Go And Other Stories right away, but then saved it to read for my spooky-book month. And I’m glad I did, because this collection goes really well with the nights getting longer
The next book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is out, just in time for Halloween! In this latest installment of Lestat’s adventures, the Brat Prince is doing a lot of soul-searching as he wonders about his place in the universe and in the Vampire Court. That right there is at least three-quarters of the plot.
This is no dream, she thought. This is real, this is happening. The nights are getting longer, the days are getting cooler (high eighties over here in North Carolina instead of mid nineties, that counts as “cooler,” right?), and Halloween is only 22 days away, time for a month of spooky-book reviews. Rosemary’s Baby is a
Untold riches! Following up on the success of her book Space Opera, Catherynne Valente has released a second book this year, this one a collection of her short stories. And what a collection it is. Absolutely everything I love about Valente’s writing is on display here. These stories defy description, so click the jump to
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. For a slight change of pace this week, I’ll be reviewing a sci-fi classic. And by “classic” I don’t mean a Ray Bradbury novel from the 1950’s, or an Isaac Asimov short story from the 1940’s. I mean a 1921 play by Czech writer Karel Čapek, R.U.R, a