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I am happy to announce that sometime close to the end of October, Fantasy Book Critic had its 1000 post in its 2 2/3 years since its first post in March 2007. A quick estimate using the Index statistics from the front page and about 70% if not more of the posts are original content: ...
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Behold the birth (and the death) of sporepunk . If Jeff VanderMeer´s FINCH could be summated in but one word (it can´t, mind you, but let´s pretend, just for argument´s sake), it could be this one: sporepunk . Naturally, the suffix punk is more than overrated, and the story doesn´t have ...
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fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com - 46 hours ago
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Inspired by this sffworld thread I decided to
do a post with my choices considering that it
is mid-November 09. As usual I separate the novels in categories, this time just three: mainstream, fantasy and sf. ********************************** ...
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Liviu's Top Novels of the 00's Decade
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Official "Wu Ming" Website (English) Download for Free "Q" and "54" (English, Italian and other languages) Download for Free "Manituana" (Italian only for now) Order "Q" HERE Order "Manituana" HERE Introduction: Some years ago a group of four previously unknown Italian authors rode to ...
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Official Scott Westerfeld Website Official Leviathan Page with trailer, excerpt, artwork and more Order Leviathan HERE Introduction: I have read about this book somewhere online some months ago and it strongly intrigued me despite its YA bent. When its trailer linked above appeared, I ...
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We are thrilled to announce that Fabio Fernandes our colleague here at FBC has just published his first novel in his native Brazil. From his official announcement HERE : "The novel, Os Dias da Peste (In an approximate translation, In the Days of the Plague ), is a post-cyber near-future ...
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Order "Red Claw" HERE Official Philip Palmer Website Read FBC Review (R. Thompson) of "Debatable Spaces" HERE Introduction: Last year Philip Palmer published a very original and superb (imho) debut "Debatable Spaces" . Unusual and daring for sff in structure and style, that novel ...
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Order “ Time Travelers Never Die Here ” Official Jack McDevitt Website Read FBC Review of The Devil's Eye Introduction: Ever since I read “ A Talent for War ” fifteen years or more ago, I have been a big-time Jack McDevitt fan, having bought and read all of his books on publication with ...
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fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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Visit James Barclays site here Read Fantasy Book
Critic's Review of Dawnthief here I have been a
fan of James Barclay's writing for at least 4 years since I discovered his Raven series in the library one day. I am extremely lucky to be able to ...
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Travels through Balaia: An Interview with James Barclay
Visit the Softwire Website here Order The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 here Introduction: One of the many things that I have come across in my reading of many YA/Children's books is that there appears to be a slight gap in the science fiction literature written for that specific age group. ...
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Visit Sarah Jane Stratford's Website Here Order Midnight Guardian Here BOOK & AUTHOR INFORMATION: Sarah Jane Stratford has a master's degree in medieval history from the University of York in England. She has previously written short stories and screenplays most notably " The Tale of ...
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Sarah Monette
The weird dreams continued, and the man did the only thing he could under such circumstances, the only logical thing: he kept on writing them. In his masterpiece Man Without Qualities , Robert Musil states that one should live life as if it were a novel and as if we were all were characters ...
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Visit John Claude Bemis ' website here Introduction : With so many books now a days using Greek mythology , or Roman mythology or sometimes even Irish and Russian mythology as a base for the plot line in the novels, I knew it would be any day now that someone would use the idea of ...
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Visit Kage Baker's Website here Order Hotel Under the Sand from amazon here Read an excerpt of Hotel Under the Sand here Introduction : Kage Baker is widely known for her series of books titled The Company , in which it follows time traveling immortals. She is also known for ...
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Kage Baker
Once upon a time, a man started to have weird dreams. And stories sprang forth from his brow, as once wise Athena from the head of her father, mighty Zeus - or, in adapting the metaphor to a more postmodern setting, we could say that stories started seeping from his brain, oozing like ...
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Hilary Mantel at Wikipedia Order Wolf Hall Here Watch the Author Reading an Excerpt INTRODUCTION: This year's Man Booker shortlist about which I did an earlier post turned out to contain several books of great interest to me including the eventual winner. " Wolf Hall" by H. Mantel is a ...
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Fabio Fernandes , our co-editor here at Fantasy Book Critic has just published another story in Everyday Weirdness : "Semiotic Smoke" This story is a sfnal one set in posthuman times. Very interesting with a twist and a satisfying conclusion, all on one page (!), Fabio 's new story ...
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fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Fantasy Book Critic was able to sit down
and interview Gary A. Ballard . Gary A. Ballard
is the author of Under the Amoral Bridge , the first in The Bridge Chronicles . Read FBC's review of Under the Amoral Bridge here . We'd like to thank Gary ...
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Interview with Gary A. Ballard (Interviewed by Mihir ...
Order “ The Cardinal’s Blades ” HERE AUTHOR INFORMATION: Pierre Pevel , one of the foremost writers of modern French fantasy, is the author of seven novels including two award winners (2002 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and 2005 Prix Imaginales) for Best Novel. “ The Cardinal’s Blades ” is ...
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Visit Hank Schwaeble's Official Website Here Read Fantasy Book Critic's Interview with Hank Here AUTHOR & BOOK INFORMATION: Hank Schwaeble is an attorney in Houston and is also a former Air Force officer working as a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special ...
