The Bodhisattva
July 6, 2008
13:00
Got another contest for you! This is a chance for 5 lucky citizens of the ‘bookspot community to win a copy of Project Moonbase, a collection by Robert Heinlein published by Subterranean Press. Obviously, a legendary figure in Science Fiction and here is the gist on this project:
Project Moonbase contains the screenplay for the now [...]
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12:38
I’ve kind of stopped doing these promos for non-bookspot related stuff but I’m so incredibly jealous of any group of people who are putting out a Comic book related magazine on their own coin, I feel like it deserves a mention. I already made a mistake, as it isn’t Comic-related, it is about Comics, which [...]
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July 5, 2008
03:43
Another edition of Forgotten Friday where I join a group of bloggers who recommend a book every week that slips through the cracks. Now that sounds very straight forward but it’s all lies. One, type in Forgotten Fridays in google right now…
…waits
See me there? I’m a headliner baby, and while I do talk about books [...]
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July 4, 2008
01:38
*Cracks open window and a eyes silly boy and girl dropping bread crumbs in his yard and driveway - goes to warm up oven*
Time for this week’s recap of all things FBS!
-Exclusives:
- We have 3 exclusive sample chapters to Tobias Buckell’s forthcoming Sly Mongoose from Tor. This will be the third novel in a interconnected [...]
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July 2, 2008
01:45
Some serious, significant Malazan history goes down in this novel and here is a chance for ten lucky people to take one home slightly before the regular edition hits stands! On August 7, ten people walk away with Malazan goodness as fans of Malaz get one half (along with Erikson’s Toll of Hounds) of the [...]
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July 1, 2008
06:37
Besides being the title of my book coming out in 2047 (pre-order now) they are also two principals in a new original art page I just bought (and on the way). This is straight out of childhood here but first some some commercial reference goodness:
There are two really classic vehicle duels in the MARVEL G.I.Joe [...]
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June 30, 2008
03:28
Another exclusive brought to you by the ‘bookspot gents. Today I have a sampler from the forthcoming Tobias Buckell novel Sly Mongoose. This novels takes place in the same setting as his previous novels Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin. You can check out my review of the former when it was released here - very enjoyable, [...]
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June 29, 2008
04:57
I listen to a lot of comic book related podcasts as kind of background while I’m doing Bookspot related stuff and when I work out. While I’m sure also of are used to hearing our names it always strikes me dumbfounded when I hear it on what is essentially a radio. No matter how short [...]
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June 28, 2008
12:11
Saw this reported at the Beat. I don’t know the man and I never met him, but he did the covers to the series that brought me back to comics (Identity Crisis). I’m not sure what it means, and it seems petty in the wake of news, but now that I’m reflecting - it seems [...]
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08:27
More sweet exclusives! I’m actually reading this now and a few chapters into Gary McMahon’s Rain Dogs and I have to admit that you certainly do find yourself wanting to know what he’s going to put the two (as of now) principle characters through - you aren’t optimistic but I dare say you already hope [...]
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02:26
*Brought to you by Yet Another Example of Japanese Sweetness, a public service group.
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June 27, 2008
12:09
Once again this my weekly contribution to Forgotten Friday. Basically, A bunch of people I don’t know sharing books that they think have been forgotten. To add a degree of difficulty, I also ignore sweet books that are undermentioned that I already regularly preach about anyway (many of which are mentioned in the intros to [...]
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04:03
*wipes six finger hand-print off windows and opens it *
Here it is the weekly recap at happening at the ‘bookspot:
-Exclusives:
- We have a preview chapter from Ken MacLeod’s forthcoming The Night Sessions. Big-ups to Sam Boogie for giving us the opportunity to being able to you a first look at one of SF’s best!
- We [...]
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June 26, 2008
01:25
Got a hot exclusive here, it’s a pain in the ass to even find the cover to this baby right here. We got got a chapter excerpt from one of SF’s best, Ken MacLeod. This is from his forthcoming (August) The Night Sessions. MacLeod has written several sweet books including the Falling Revolution and [...]
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June 25, 2008
12:08
I bought this some time ago but I finally got it in the post today. Some people may know I’m a huge fan of Dave Lapham and a huge fan of VALIANT in general and this is the original art from a page in Harbinger#1 (penciled by Lapham). You know how Super Hero teams - [...]
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11:57
Just brief thoughts on books I have/have been reading recently that I don’t plan to do a longer review on or that I’m just starting and a general update:
Bloodheir by Brian Ruckley - This is the second book in the Godless World trilogy that was released this month. I really didn’t enjoy Winterbirth but I [...]
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June 24, 2008
14:25
If you gravitate to comic communities I participate in this is where the broken record starts - I loved Final Crisis#1 and one of the main reasons I’m glad Heidi MacDonald is reporting that Dan Didio is getting an extension (after a really silly internet-spawned attempt at a Shellian neighborhood watch meeting with people a [...]
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03:16
Got another exclusive! I was browsing through the FBS community and saw one of our members (Craig Gidney) mention a book he was currently reading. Now obvioulsy I get all the - more - publicity info anyone else gets but as I told Ms. Kimberling at Blind Eye Books I have less time these days [...]
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June 21, 2008
03:57
Here is another exclusive for you! We have the first three chapters from World Fantasy Award winning author Martin Millar’s *gives Jeff a cigarette - takes one for himself, hands the pack to Evil Monkey* Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me. Due to be republished in September of this year by Softskull Press (which every year [...]
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02:19
So I get tagged in, a blind tag, you know Ole and Arn Anderson style (my protoculture knowledge has no subject limits). I am fundamentally against the the meme because they are the e-version of the hated answering machine, except everybody on the Internet can see if you are simply not calling people back. While [...]
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