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Entries from June 2008

Sly Mongoose by Tobias Buckell (Exclusive Excerpt)

June 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Excerpt · Exclusive · Sly Mongoose · Tobias Buckell

Tomio Through Your Radio: Dan Didio Sends Nation in Search of Beyond

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Batman Beyond · Comicgeekspeak · Comics · DC Comics · Dan Didio · Jay Tomio · Only the VALIANT · Pants · The Sixth World · Uncategorized · podcasts

Rest in Peace

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Michael Turner · RIP · Uncategorized

Rain Dogs by Gary McMahon (Exclusive - Prologue and First Chapter)

June 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Excerpt · Exclusive · Gary McMahon · Rain Dogs · books

Tomio Torat: You used to watch…

June 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

*Brought to you by Yet Another Example of Japanese Sweetness, a public service group.

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Tags: Monchhichi · Tomio Torat · Tomio True Stories · public service announcement

Forgotten Fridays: Pandora, by Holly Hollander

June 27th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: Forgotten Fridays · Gene Wolfe · Pandora · books · by Holly Hollander

Bookspot Round-up 6/27/2008

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

*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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Tags: Alchemy of Stone · Book Reviews · Book of Lost Things · Bookspot Round-up · DVD · Ekaterina Sedia · Futurama: The Beast will a Billion Backs · Ginn Hale · John Connolly · Ken Macleod · Lynn Flewelling · Martin Millar · Reviews · The Night Sessions · The Oracle's Queen · The Spiderwick Chronicles · Wicked Gentlemen · books · uturama: The Beast will a Billion Backs

The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod (Exclusive Excerpt)

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Excerpt · Exclusive · Ken Macleod · The Night Sessions · books

Enter the CH-er-UB - Lapham goodness

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Comic Books · Comics · Dave Lapham · Harbinger · Original art · Valiant · valiant comics

Reading Capsules 6/25/2008

June 25th, 2008 · 6 Comments

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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Tags: Bloodheir · Brian Ruckley · Gregory Frost · Lord Tophet · Uncategorized · books

Crisis Averted: On with Final Crisis

June 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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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Tags: Comic Books · Comics · Final Crisis · Uncategorized

Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale (1st 2 chapters - exclusive)

June 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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 obviously 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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Tags: Excerpt · Exclusive · Ginn Hale · Uncategorized · Wicked Gentlemen · books

Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me by Martin Millar (Exclusive - first 3 chapters)

June 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: Exclusive · Led Zepplin · Martin Millar · Softskull Press · Suzy · and Me · books

Horsemen style

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Silly meme · books

Forgotten Fridays: Coelestis

June 20th, 2008 · 7 Comments

 
Once again, I’m participating in Forgotten Fridays, an activity summed up by a bunch of people I don’t know telling you about books that have been forgotten. That of course leaves for a lot for definition by all participants, but for me they are book that are not only that in a broader sense by [...]

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Tags: Coelestis · Forgotten Fridays · Paul Park · Uncategorized · books