The Bodhisattva

Over at BookSpotCentral I just put up my review of Matthew Stover’s latest, Caine Black Knife, that was released a couple days ago be Del Rey. A review I really struggled with as it’s tough to really talk about facets of this book without revealing too much. It does tell two stories (one from the [...]

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*opens window for fresh air as Mockra always gives him a headache*
Alright peeps, it’s that time again to take a look at the week of bookspot that was!  I’m going to be a little ghost this week and next here as we work on the new site design. We are in the grunt stages of [...]

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*opens window and begins to swap stories with Leodora and the little girl from the Night Garden passing around a bottle of the finest wine from the Arbor*
Another look at the week of ‘bookspot that was! Another week goes by and still no justice for your host, as no new design news to announce. Apparently [...]

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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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*opens window and watches the kids playing and and tells Ceresei to quit teasing Jamie*
Another look at what occurred at the ‘bookspot this week
-Exclusives:
This is a sweet one. The first chapter to a forthcoming Ian R. MacLeod book? MacLeod is a multiple World Fantasy Award winner, a Sidewise Winner and a Locus Award Winner  and [...]

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*Opens window and tells Benedict to keep his armies of the lawn*
A look at what’s going on at the ‘bookspot in the last week!
-Exclusives:
- We have the first 3 chapters to Turnskin by Nicole Kimberling from Blind Eye books. I’ve been enjoying another one of their books, Wicked Gentlemen (we have the first 3 chapters [...]

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*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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*opens newly tinted windows*
Yes, tint people, because we are pimpin’ this week. Anyway here is a summary of what has happened this week at the  ‘bookspot and all our fiefdoms given to
-Heliotrope:
We named out final contributor to our forthcoming fall issue and it’s the legendary Alan Moore. Big time thanks to Chris Staros who has [...]

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Weekly roundup for the lazy..err dedicated Bodhisattva window users to all this bookspot:
-Heliotrope:
The contributors list for the next issue has been announced:
K.J. Bishop
Hal Duncan
Neil Gaiman
Rhys Hughes
Paul S. Kemp
Chris Roberson
Bryan Talbot
Catherynne M. Valente
Jeff VanderMeer
We think they’re pretty good.
I have thrown out feelers for art and my birdies tell me one more contributor may be added. Hopefully [...]

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Just a weekly round-up of some stuff at FBS:
First we have a piece by Bernd Kochanowski considering the  Hammett Award nominees:
The Outlander, by Gil Adamson
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon
End Games, by Michael Dibdin
Dahlia’s Gone, by Katie Estill
Stalin’s Ghost, by Martin Cruz Smith
Reviews:
- Val reviews Night Shade Book’s Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse. [...]

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