BookExpo America 2010 in review – Lexie’s Experience
Updated: 2010-05-31 14:59:39
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Marion Zimmer Bradley is best known as the author of The Mists Of Avalon, but her most long running series is set not in a fantasy middle ages of Earth, but rather on a far future Earth colony called Darkover. There are more than 40 books in the Darkover series. We have the very first [...]
I’ve been seeing some interesting discussions around lately about realism in fiction — to wit, that positive portrayals of various human experiences and relationships were “unrealistic” and ought to be confined to the lowest forms of genre fiction.
Really? Is…
When I was about two or three chapters into Land of the Burning Sands, I sent a note to my agent to ask, facetiously, whether she could provide a role for the leading female character to play besides merely serving…
The Whisperer In Darkness
By H.P. Lovecraft; Read by Phil Reynolds
3 CDs or Audible Download – Approx. 2 Hours 53 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Fantom Films
Published: April 2010
Sample |MP3|
Considered to the be one of most influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft is synonymous with some of the best fantasy and horror fiction of the 20th century, second [...]
Lightspeed Magazine is a “new online science fiction magazine published by the award-winning independent press Prime Books” – It’s first issue launches June 1, 2010.
The mag is edited by John Joseph Adams, a big audiobook fan who’s also the host of The Geek’s Guide To The Galaxy podcast and Andrea Kail, a “writer, critic, and [...]
Little Fuzzy
By H. Beam Piper; read by Jim Roberts
Audible Download – 6 hours 45 mins [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Jincin Recordings
Published: 2010
Themes: / science fiction / philosophy / extraterrestrial / sentience
Little Fuzzy is a poor man’s, a thinking man’s, Avatar. It tells the story of a capitalistic corporation exploring a far-off planet with a classical name, Zarathustra. While [...]
Here’s another collaboratively constructed audiobook, following on the heels of Hearts, Keys, and Puppetry. It’s short, free, and full of zombies.
Fashionably Undead
By Meg Cabot and the Twitterverse; Read by Sarah Drew
9 MP3 Files – Approx. 1 Hour 22 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published: May 2010
New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot and more than 50 [...]
Here’s a fancy new wallpaper from the Orbit UK team and illustrator Lee Gibbons, for the second book in Kevin J. Anderson’s Terra Incognita series: The Map of All Things. These books are great epic fantasy from one…
Cyberpunk is not really my cup of tea, so I was surprised when I got into This is Not a Game as much as much as I did. It’s all about connectivity, and how fast information and communication flies around…
I’m still got several of the new to LibriVox recordings in this collection to listen to. But I’ve made a few notes on a few of them:
The Beast Of Space by F.E. Hardart is a tale of a woman hating asteroid miner who finds himself on a rescue mission. The writing is fairly clunky, but [...]
I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s novel Little Brother |READ OUR REVIEW|, and I am looking forward to reading his latest novel For The Win.
For The Win
By Cory Doctorow; Read by George Newbern
CDs – Approx. 16.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: May 11, 2010
ISBN: 0307710696
Listen to a sample |MP3|
At any hour of the day or night, [...]
, , , Home About Orbit FAQ Publishing Schedules Contact Us Sign Up The Ambassador's Mission Trudi Canavan Containing everything you want from a fantasy tale DEATHRAY Read an extract Feed Mira Grant Honestly , if you only read one book about zombies this year , read Mira Grant's FEED . rdquo BlogCritics.org Read chapter one Trouble with Tempests Cover Launch : DEEP STATE Brian Ruckley , Now With New Improved Website Jack Womack May 20th , 2010 Orbit author Brian Ruckley , whose FALL OF THANES US UK ANZ is now available , has a new improved website and looks forward to his fans and readers who haven’t yet encountered his books , and so haven’t yet had the chance to become fans finding him at www.brianruckley.com Be sure to update your RSS feeds This entry was posted on Thursday , May 20th ,
My good friend Julie, from the Forgotten Classics podcast, sent me an email pointing out Trueman And Riley a BBC Radio “Drama series about two bickering detectives, starring Robert Daws and Duncan Preston.” Sez Julie:
“Just in case you hadn’t heard it, this [Trueman And Riley] is a good ‘un. Just finished listening to the first [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Sci Fi Catholic Science Fiction News Book and Movie Reviews Religious Topics All from a Catholic Perspective Wednesday , May 19, 2010 May Christian Science Fiction Fantasy Blog Tour Another blog tour . That means it must have been about a month since I last posted . Yeesh . In case anyone is actually still reading this blog , finals are over and I'm out in the field doing archaeological stuff , where my Internet access has been very spotty . If I'm lucky , the connection will last to the end of this post and I'll actually be able to put it . up The blog tour this month goes out to By Darkness Hid by Jill Williamson . nbsp Unfortunately , I was unable to read the book due to poor lighting conditions . However , I understand it's about a squire training to
Review by Jill Williamson What if the legends are true? Jason doubts the myths that people were once taken through a portal to another realm where dragons rule. But his brother gives him a message that proves something is wrong with the world he lives in. He snoops around, hoping to find out [...]
I’m thrilled beyond belief that Orbit has asked me to finish Jane True’s story with books four, five, and six. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I call my next three books: four, five, and six. For, while using the word “tempest”…
Review by Jill Williamson I’ve never been big on poetry. I prefer fiction stories that whisk me away to some imaginary place. Then I received this book from teenage author Emily Angelica Roldan. There is little I love more in the world than a teenage author. So I couldn’t wait to see what [...]
Tricia Sullivan is the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of an impressive body of work, including Maul, Double Vision and Sound Mind. Here’s just a sample of the praise that has been heaped upon her work:…
K.J. Parker’s critically acclaimed Engineer trilogy featured three great covers by Keith Hayes. Since then, Parker has been writing stand-alone novels, and any one of them is a great place to jump in without any series-long commitment.…
Review by Jill Williamson David and Laci have known each other since they were in preschool. Laci continually grows out her hair, chops it off, and sends it to Locks of Love. It’s one of the things about her that annoys him. When they reach junior high, Greg moves to town and becomes David’s [...]