The Bodhisattva

- 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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Another edition of Forgotten Friday where I join a group of bloggers who recommend a book  every week that slips through the cracks. Now that sounds very straight forward but it’s all lies. One, type in Forgotten Fridays in google right now…
…waits
See me there? I’m a headliner baby, and while I do talk about books [...]

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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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Another first look for FBS readers! This is the first chapter to Matthew Hughes’ latest archonate novel, Template. As many know there are several authors who have been mixing mystery/crime with Science Fiction and many of it is written by terrific writers like Grimwood, Liz WIlliams, Charlie Huston among many others, but my favorite is [...]

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Over the last few days I decided to start reading Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, a series of books that I think just saw its 8th book published earlier this month. It’s a series that I have see has very enthusiastic fans and one that comes up at FBS - in terms of a book [...]

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