This is an unusual blend of genres, that’s worth taking a look at.
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Category Archives: Books
Review: The Atrocity Archives
If we pursue this plan, by late 2006 any two adjacent public CCTV terminals — or private camcorders equipped with a digital video link — will be reprogrammable by any authenticated MAGINOT BLUE STARS superuser to permit the operator to turn them into a SCORPION STARE basilisk weapon. We remain convinced that this is the best defensive posture to adopt in order to minimize casualties when the Great Old Ones return from beyond the stars to eat our brains (273).
This volume includes three pieces: Charles Stross’s eponymous Lovecraftian spy thriller, the Hugo-award winning Concrete Jungle, and “Inside the Fear Factory,” a reflection on spies, the Cold War, Lovecraft, horror, and hackers.
Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84
As reported by the New York Times: Kurt Vonnegut, author of several SF novels (and a number of other really nifty works too) has died at the age of 84 in his Manhattan home.
Book Review – “Trinity Blood: Rage Against The Moons Vol. 1: From The Empire”
This latest new release from TokyoPop may have the longest title of any book on my shelf.
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Novel Review: Glasshouse
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
– Sally Kempton
The prolific Charles Stross‘s work includes groundbreaking SF, the Lovecraftian Attrocity Archives, a fantasy trilogy, and a good deal of shorter fiction and non-fiction.
Glasshouse connects to his Hugo-nominated Accelerando in somewhat the same fashion…
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Book Review – “Twelve Kingdoms Volume One: Sea of Shadow”
The latest series from PopFiction launches today. The next series, Trinity Blood, will have its first volume reviewed on April 3.
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Robert Anton Wilson’s Wake
The late Robert Anton Wilson‘s wake will be held this coming Sunday, February 18,
from 1 to 6 p.m. at the Cocoanut Grove, in Santa Cruz, California.
The Death of Captain Future
This recent column by Fred Kiesche wonders what is happening to literature that deals with, well, wonders.
Robert Anton Wilson dead
Robert Anton Wilson, best-known as the author of The Illuminatus Trilogy, died yesterday at the age of 75.
The Dreaming Jewels
“They caught the kid doing something disgusting out under the bleachers at the high school stadium…”
This freakish first novel by Theodore Sturgeon first appeared in 1950. While it may not be his best work, it holds up, decades later.