The Bodhisattva

*opens window and admires the craftsmanship*

A day late, but the window repairmen doesn’t work on Thanksgiving so here we are now for the weekly look that was at the BookSpot Central!

-Exclusives:

Recently pointed to as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, The BSC is on point bringing you the first chapter to one of my favorite writer’s latest work. We have Lydia Millet’s How the Dead Dread for you to sample.

Big thanks to Ms. Millet and Soft Skull Press!

More to come always from all the best publishers in the world from books who have publicist or editors who actually want to get such things seen!

-Interviews:

We had two editions of The BookSpot Beat in the last week, one by myself and one by Damon stealing my format!

- Damon talks dragons with E.E. Knight.

- I talk Hell with Hal Duncan.

Thanks to E.E. Knight and Hal Duncan for the time!

Always more interviews to come me. From the fun, BookSpot Beats to the end all On the Spot interviews - stay tuned!

-Reviews:

A bit of a slow week entering the Holidays season but we have new hotness and classic goodness!

- Rob takes a look at Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth

The Dying Earth is a collection of classic pulp fantasy stories, nothing less, nothing more. If you can stand cardboard characters and fantasy clichés, this is probably as good as it is going to get. Vance’s command of the English language is impressive. He pulls off what many other pulp writers didn’t manage: to use kind of rich, colourful prose pulp is know for, without sounding completely ridiculous.

I’ve already smacked him around for his heresy against pulps! I’ll tell you what, though I hate the image quality we can get on some of these older covers - I do love seeing them!

- The Professor looks into the future and gives us the scoop on the forthcoming Kit Reed novel, Enclave.

- Amber gives us the scoop on latest from Diana Pharaoh Francis with her review of The Black Ship.

In Enclave, set on the Earth in the near future, the ex-Marine Lt. Sarge Whitemore has the “courage and foresight” to imagine that we are in the end times. That appears to be his genuine belief, anyway, though the huge sums of money his charges’ parents have paid to him to both be rid of their uncontrollable hellions and to “protect” them from the horrors of the End Times (earthquakes, floods, rioting, terrorists, suicide bombers, mass riots, etc.) doesn’t hurt, either

-Articles/Columns:

- Sandra is back and talking shit about several million of you on Saturday Sound-Off: Good Money After Bad.

- Damon’s is back with his Weekly Noise (which is not even weekly anymore) and admits once again he doesn’t like awesome, this time via television.

Pushing Daisies is cancelled, I never liked the show too much

He has a gene that hates quality.

-Contests:

I just announced the 5 winners of the Brent Weeks contest today, and earlier this week of the Neal Stephenson contest - check to see if you won!

More added this week!

- I have a signed copy of Jane Lindskold latest, Thirteen Orphans, coming from Tor this month!

- I’ve got a signed copy of Samantha Henderson’s Heaven’s Bones - Wizards of the Coast goodness for a Helio alum!

- I have 5 copies of Holly Phillip’s forthcoming The Engine’s Child to be published by Del Rey later this year! If you’ve read In the Palace of Repose you are on this!

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- The 5th week of George R.R. Martin/Dark Sword Miniatures goodness! This week it’s a member of the Night Watch!!

I want to thank Del Rey, Tor, Samantha Henderson and Dark Sword Miniatures for choosing BookSpot Central to host these contests!

Please be sure to visit our contest page to be up to date with all current contests hosted at BookSpot Central. We are adding new prizes constantly!

What can Black Friday bring?

-Tomio Stuff:

We are going to show why we continue to be the top of this game in the next few weeks so stay tuned!

Please have a wonderful holiday/shopping experience and for those who traveled, a safe trip!

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