jimhines.livejournal.com - 12/8/2008
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Excerpts from two reviews, both for Goblin Quest [ Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy ] : "...I kept reading, hoping to be amused, never happened. I had purchased the other volumes in this set. I will have to completely run out of anything to read or reread before I will read them." "I loved this ...
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December 9, 2008 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... if Rich Horton. He just posted the Table of Contents for his 2009 anthologies and it got me excited. I'm not an expert in science fiction (although seeing names like Ted Kosmatka and Mary Robinette Kowal is full of win!) but his fantasy list looks promising, especially with Christopher Golden's "The Hiss of Escaping Air" and Jeffrey Ford's "Daltharee" (I've been working on my own "best of" list last week and both stories are in there). Jim C. Hines has a What Makes A Useful Review post. It's the wrong season but hey, in the spirit of The Nightmare ...
SF Tidbits for 12/9/08
SF Signal —
... Subterfuge by Ian Whates.
Torque Control offers another round-table discussion, this one on Benjamin Rosenbaum's debut collection The Ant King and Other Stories. At the table: Abigail Nussbaum, Martin Lewis, Niall Harrison, and Dan Hartland.
Karen Burnham reviews A Companion to Science Fiction by David Seed at Fruitless Recursion.
Meanwhile, Jim C. Hines asks: What Makes a Useful Review?
Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year ...
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