The Bodhisattva

In a previous post I commented on a recent pick-up and my appreciation for Silver Age DC Grey/Wash tone covers and I just got another of my favorites today.

This Green Lantern#8 (1961) It’s also the first 5700 A.D. cover/story! Nowhere near the highest graded but a solid mid-grade with white pages that has a sweet [...]

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Over at the ‘bookspot I just posted an excerpt of Michael Jasper’s forthcoming A Gathering of Doorways. We have the prologue and first chapter that’s scheduled to be published in October. Here are some early opinions:
“A strong and compulsively readable first novel about family and friends and the horrors, ordinary and not so ordinary, that [...]

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*opens window looks out into the swamp and asks Ben, “you didn’t even change his last name?”*
Okay folks, a weekly round-up all things bookspot! A rather busy week from our contributors as we continue the countdown to our site redesign and Heliotrope’s redesign as well!
-Exclusives:
- This week we were able to snag an excerpt from [...]

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This month the first novel-length story arc in Gregory Frost’s Shadowbridge setting comes to and end with the release of Lord Tophet - the follow-up to Shadowbridge, both published by Del Rey.  Here we have an opportunity for a winner to get the set signed by the author.

If one remembers I was really behind the [...]

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I just posted my review of Harbinger: The Beginning at the ‘bookspot. This was the hardcover release from VALIANT last year that collected issues 0-7 of the original run by Jim Shooter and Dave Lapham and also included an original 8-page story entitled The Origin of Harada by Jim Shooter and Bob Hall.
VALIANT is just [...]

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Okay people, time for a little something to brighten the weekend of those not at SDCC like me. What I have here is the perfect compliment to another active contest we are running, (a chance for 10 people to win Esslemont’s Return of the Crimson Guard) as it’s an opportunity for two ‘bookspoters to win [...]

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Time for another Forgotten Friday (a special Friday edition of Forgotten Friday for those in continuity) and I dare say the most disappointing. It seems that  something like the San Diego Comic Con should not be allowed to occur unless I’m in the house, but alas via several reports and press releases, I’m sure that [...]

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I just posted another exclusive preview for the ‘bookspot fam!  This time we have an excerpt from Daniel Abraham’s latest, An Autumn War, published by TOR this month!  This is the third book in his Long Price Quartet.  In 2006 I interviewed Mr. Abraham when the first book in this series, A Summer in Shadow [...]

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- opens window and and exhales revealing a cloudy view of a short, stout, barefooted fellow cover the skull of a geezer who seemed to dissipate into smoke. *Inhales* -
Time for this week’s look at the past at the ‘bookspot.  As our forum visitors can see, we have updated to a new forum and we [...]

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Got another sample here for the people. Some SF goodness from the good folks at Gollancz. It’s been awhile since a Tomio/Gollancz collabo - that have in some shadows, previously caused minor cults - has occurred and the only people who have suffered are the potential readers, so lets hope this is the beginning of [...]

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So Damon goes over my helmet and announces a contest of his own to which it will land on yours truly to properly present.
Here is a wonderful chance for all of you haven’t bought the first ten Vlad Tatos books to jump on with the eleventh! This time you will have a special treat however, [...]

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Just wanted to let you know I named the 5 winners of a copy of Project Moonbase a collection by the legendary Robert Heinlein published by Subterranean Press.

FIND OUT IF YOU WON!
Thanks to all who participated and congrats to the winners. I also want to thank Bill and Subterranean Press!
Don’t forget we are also currently [...]

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I just posted another web exclusive story over at the ‘bookspot for your reading pleasure. As many know I recently conducted an interview with novelist Gregory Frost that was largely about his most recent novel Shadowbridge (see my review here) and his forthcoming one Lord Tophet.  After this process I got to thinking that it [...]

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AIO publishes quality books in more ways than one.  First as physical objects the books are gorgeous, classy, and standout. Second - in terms of the stories themselves - they are gorgeous, classy, and standout. There is no surprise that works by people like Ian R. MacLeod  (The Summer Isles) or Zoran Zivkovic (Seven Touches [...]

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‘Bookspot and Bodhisattva (from now to simply be called B&B’s or Killah B’s in some Burroughs) readers know that we are heading for a total site redesign and updating our forums. I woke up today to a string of email by one half of our D&D team (Damon and Dave) swearing up a storm about [...]

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