The Bodhisattva

Got another exclusive for your, and this one is from one of my favorite writers in the short form, Rhys Hughes. This is from a collection Less Lonely Planet that came out this month and is called Fable with Turkish Coffee.
Check it out here!
Hughes is the author of some terrific collections and an [...]

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Just some thought on some recent reads. I’m going to do sole full blown reviews on An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham and Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Esslemont at the bookspot, as well as Harbinger: The Beginning and the first few issues of Archer and Armstrong (both by VALIANT) over at Ill [...]

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Over at FBS I just announced an opportunity for 3 people to win a signed copy of Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams This is the debut by Mr. WIlliams that was released this month. Craig Gidney interviewed Mr. Williams at FBS this week.
“Explodes out the gate like a sonic boom and never stops. Adrenaline [...]

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Just a bit of a recap of the last week or of what’s at FBS - not everything but a taste!
Reviews:
- Val has been visiting Discworld lately and has moved on to the third leg of his journey Equal Rites.
- Trin blows through Paper Cities edited by Ekaterian Sedia who suddenly seems like the [...]

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Got another exclusive here , this time it’s the first chapter of Harvest of Changelings written by Warren Rochelle. This novel was released last year, but the paperback is scheduled to hit in September and this  is a nice sized  (anybody notice chapters  seem to be getting smaller and smaller these days) taste of the [...]

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In our reading habits we confront many heroes, men and women of worth who are confronted with either the mundane or fantastic hopefully orchestrated by a literary-maestro. On this day however we talk of real experiences, real sacrifice that have molded several works we enjoy, be it Tolkien seeing the age of industry or Peake [...]

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Craig Gidney adds to the run on interviews in the last week or so with one he conducted with  novelist David J. Williams.  William’s debut novel The Mirrored Heavens was described by Stephen Baxter as “Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling”.
Enjoy the interview!
Big thanks to Craig and Mr. Williams for bringing this to you via [...]

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Told you I’m back to activity! Got another interview here and this one is a long time coming in terms that I have never done a Malaz related interview and it’s time for them to be yappin on a big boy site! Of course Ian is the author of Night Of Knives (which [...]

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I just wanted to let people know that I’m going to be HQing our Comic book/graphic novel efforts over at separate blog called Ill (illustrated) Art. I just put up my first post over there that is kind of a brief description of what it’s going to be about and I also have pictorial evidence [...]

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Got another hot one here.
I just put up a complete story from Paper Cities, anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedia and published by Sense Five Press. This was released last April and features writers like Hal Duncan, Anna Tambour, Jay Lake, Vylar Kaftan, Cat Rambo and more (some Helio peeps in that [...]

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As is obvious by my own move (and mentioned before) FBS is now hosting blogs for our members using the Wordpress platform (with none of limitations Wordpress.com brings). We have a couple of ideas in the works to bring some very ’special guests’ to the fold for readers to come and enjoy and bridge [...]

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Three winners to two contests have been named over at FBS. Two of our members have won free copies of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother from Tor and one of them has won a NY Comic Con haul!
Go find out if you are the winnah!
Congrats to the winners and I hope you enjoy them!
Another note. [...]

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Over at FBS I just put up an interview with the Edgar nominated novelist and comic book writer Charlie Huston. This interview was conducted by both Brian Lindenmuth and myself.
Among other things, Huston is the author of the Joe Pitt Casebooks which actually has me picking up vamp-fiction as he hides it in Stover-intense, pulp-noir, [...]

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I got a complete story for you this time from the Hugo and Nebula awarding winning writer Nancy Kress. This is the title story from her recently released collection Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and other stories.
You can read the story over at FBS now.
I have a lot more stuff coming up in coming weeks, [...]

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I just put up another excerpt. This is roughly the first 11 pages of Charlie Huston’s Already Dead, his first Joe Pitt novel.  I was pretty skeptical about the whole ‘vampire noir’ deal but I have been pleasantly surprised through three books and find myself putting these books on my annual habitual read cycle. It’s [...]

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