The Bodhisattva

*opens window and puts away the AK hoping today will be a good day*
Back for the weekly look back at all things BookSpot Central!
-Reviews:
- Jeff Sullins returns and reviews a new Dave Duncan book for us, Ill Met in the Arena:
The storyline serves up fantasy, action, and mystery. Rather than relying on swords and sorcery, [...]

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I’ve been getting some reading done, so here are some brief thoughts (some reviewed already, some not).
- Paul of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert
Self-Admittedly, I’m just one of those people that can’t get over the absolute change in voice, direction and perceived depth of post-Frank Herbert work. If these weren’t branded [...]

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I just announced another contest at BookSpotCentral! This is an opportunity to win one of my previous Forgotten Friday picks, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, written by Paul Malmont. These are signed by the author and I’m very pleased to be able to present these.

Get more information on the book and contest at BookSpotCentral!
I want [...]

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It’s weird how this Damon has time to do author interviews while I’m slaving over here trying to bring the new site to you guy but he gets away with it by bringing newa to Brown Coats with this bit from Brust:
“Firefly” is the only TV science fiction I’ve ever enjoyed;”
I don’t even know if [...]

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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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You get to a point where you’ve read enough Robert E. Howard (which is usually not much or enough - and I feel many times feels like a claim more than fact considering how various works are described in passing) that you feel you need to move on as, even beyond the standard view of [...]

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Just wanted to say that I announced the winner of our contest for signed copies of Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet by Gregory Frost.
Check to see if you won!
I want to thank all those who entered an congratulate the winner as this is a sweet duology from Del Rey!
I will be announcing more contests soon and [...]

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Okay people, both of our Malazan contests ended today and I have the winners for you. Ten lucky people who won a copy of Ian Cameron Esslemont’s Return of the Crimson Guard and two signed copies of Steven Erikson’s Toll the Hounds! As one could imagine these were very popular contests so I want to [...]

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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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In a post last month I announced the release date on this book was shifted to September 25th, a date that was confirmed to me by the publisher and Mr. Esslemont.  I just heard today however (from ICE) that the finalized date is now September 11th (as reflected on the site). I’ll keep an eye on [...]

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As I mentioned at the end of my most recent contribution to this feature, this Friday Brian will be managing Forgotten Fridays while Patti is out of town. As some of you may know, it’s basically just bloggers posting a book they think is undermentioned every Friday at their own blog and one central [...]

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It’s not really a question and Brian posts about possible reasons why. I do think the stigma is relevant because I know my own mother simply won’t watch anything that has ’spaceships’ or ‘creatures’ in them because  - and she will freely admit it - automatically thinks they are for children. That  Science Fiction and [...]

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Damon finally gets around to naming the winner of the signed copy of Jhegalla, the latest Vlad Tatos installment from Steven Brust over at HQ.
Thanks to all who participated, Tor, and Mr. Brust and congrats to the winner!
Please note that we still have three other active opportunities for free goodies going. They are as follows:
- [...]

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Time for another one of these damn Forgotten Fridays. Simply put, my weekly contribution to a group of bloggers that  I don’t know that each choose a book that not enough people are talking about that we think are hot. As this is way too easy for me I add the stipulation of not [...]

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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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