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Kathryn Adams

Review: Mass Effect – Annihilation (Andromeda #3)

“I’m not accusing anyone, I’m trying to show you that we don’t even know what we don’t know.” Award-winning author Catherynne Valente gets to play in the Mass Effect sandbox with the latest novel in the Andromeda series. This installment is something of a buddy cop/murder mystery/sci-fi disaster movie. In space. The Quarian ark Keelah

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Elevation

Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality? Stephen King’s latest work is more of a modern-day fable than a novel.  It’s also a

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Best of 2018
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Kathryn Adams

The Best Books of 2018

2018 was a year that produced a staggering number of excellent books. Some of them were by my usual favorite authors, and some were by authors I only recently discovered. The good news is that I always had plenty to choose from whenever I needed something new to read. The bad news is that there

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Circe

…gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. For my final book review of the year, I decided to go with the winner of the Goodreads choice for Best Fantasy

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Adjustment Day

Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots. Chuck Palahniuk was one of the guests at this year’s NC Comicon: Bull City, so I was able to buy a copy of his latest novel Adjustment Day for him to sign. Which he did so, with his unique combination

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency #2)

Hey, you know what, basing an entire system of social, political and economic control on the vague, all-too-easily misinterpreted words of a single person claiming divine inspiration is probably not actually all that smart, now, is it.” In the second book of John Scalzi’s Interdependency series, the vital link between interstellar systems – The Flow

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Limetown – A Novel

“You’re not telling me everything.” “No, I am not.” “Why?” She stood by the window; sprinkles beat the pane. “Because I’m still afraid. And you should be too.” “Of what?” “Of what happens,” Mrs. Sinnard said, “when your uncle is around.” On February 8, 2004, in the mysterious research facility known as Limetown, three hundred

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Kathryn Adams

Review: In The Vanisher’s Palace

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

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Kathryn Adams

North Carolina Comicon: Bull City 2018 – The Panels

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

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