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Review - Last Will and Testament by Brad Meltzer and the Adam Kubert

September 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I just put up a review of a one-shot from DC Comics, Last Will and Testament, Brad Meltzer’s and Adams Kubert’s contribution around the Final Crisis event. I kind of just read it, felt something, and wanted to review it. This is basically how I roll with reviews, regardless of medium and I thought Melzter [...]

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Tags: Brad Meltzer · Comics · DC Comics · Final Crisis · Last Will and Testament · Reviews

Transformers Cybertron: The Ultimate Collection Review

August 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Okay fellas, this is my first review of our new asset pool at FBS/BSC as we now have access to a few studio’s  DVDs which we will be reviewing regularly from now on.  This is a massive set of 7 discs, containing 4 seasons of a Transformers cartoon series called Transformers Cybertron and is called [...]

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Tags: DVD · Reviews · Transformers · Transformers Cybertron · Transformers Cybertron: Ultimate Collection

Bookspot Round-Up 8/6/2008

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

*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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Tags: Black Ships · Book Reviews · Bookspot Round-up · Brandon Sanderson · Excerpt · Exclusive · Guy Gavriel Kay · Jo Graham · John Beachem · L.E. Modesitt · Lions of Al-Rassan · Michael Jasper · Natural Ordermage · Peadar O Guilin · Psychological Methods To Sell Should Be Destroyed · Reviews · Robert Freeman Wexler · Storm of Vengeance · The Inferior · The Well of Ascension · books

Harbinger: The Beginning review

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Comics · Dave Lapham · Harbinger · Harbinger: The Beginning · Jim Shooter · Reviews · VALIANT Entertainment · valiant comics

Bookspot Round-up 7/17/2008

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

*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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Tags: Book Reviews · Bookspot Round-up · Dan Dare · Elephantmen: War Toys. · Excerpt · Exclusive · Gregory Frost · Ian R. MacLeod · Interview · Larion Willis · Mistborn · Mourning Meadow · Reviews · Richard Starkings · Song of Time · books

Bookspot Round-up 7/10/08

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

*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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Tags: Alastair Reynolds · Bell Book and Candle · Book Reviews · Bookspot Round-up · Clockwork Phoenix · Excerpt · Exclusive · Free Books · Jeffrey Ford · Kor One Hydration Vessel · Nicole Kimberling · Project Moonbase · Revelation Space · Reviews · Robert Heinlein · The Art of Dreamworks: Kung Fu Panda · The Shadow Year · Turnskin · books · contest

Bookspot Round-up 6/27/2008

June 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments

*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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Tags: Alchemy of Stone · Book Reviews · Book of Lost Things · Bookspot Round-up · DVD · Ekaterina Sedia · Futurama: The Beast will a Billion Backs · Ginn Hale · John Connolly · Ken Macleod · Lynn Flewelling · Martin Millar · Reviews · The Night Sessions · The Oracle's Queen · The Spiderwick Chronicles · Wicked Gentlemen · books · uturama: The Beast will a Billion Backs

Bookspot Round-up 5/27/2008

May 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Just a bit of a recap of the last week or of what’s at FBS - not everything but a taste!
Reviews:
- Val has been visiting Discworld lately and has moved on to the third leg of his journey Equal Rites.
- Trin blows through Paper Cities edited by Ekaterian Sedia who suddenly seems like the [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Excerpt · Fantasybookspot.com · Reviews · books

FBS Stuff for the week

May 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Just want to highlight some recent FBS stuff:
- Craig Gidney gets the Truth About Celia by Kevin Brockmeier.
An elegiac mediation on grief created out of scraps of genre fiction.
-Val continues going through the classics, this time hangin’ on Discworld for the second spin with The Light Fantastic. I love me some Discworld as it’s really [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Fantasybookspot.com · Heliotrope Magazine · Reviews · books

Another Interview and Reviews at FBS

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

My last post mentioned Craig’s interview with Ekaterina Sedia (which basically forced me to take a trip to Amazon), but intent on forcing me to post more, Lawrence put up his interview with Alistair Rennie, a contributor in the new Weird Anthology edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer that included contributions from others like Jeffery [...]

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Tags: Fantasybookspot.com · Interview · Reviews · books

Review: The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi

March 9th, 2008 · 9 Comments

In some of my earliest bloggasms I spoke of my evolution to becoming a fan of Science Fiction. I was already – as a reader – a hardened veteran of the fantastic but it took awhile – even after my first read - Chapterhouse: Dune, to get to a point that reading Science Fiction was [...]

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Tags: John Scalzi · Reviews · The Ghost Brigades · books

Richard Kadrey’s Butcher Bird is online for free

March 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I was looking at the Fantasybookspot.com news wire and apparently some free stories are being put up at Night Shade and they are Unique Chicken Goes in Reverseby Andy Duncan and Garth Nix’s Ditmar-nominated story Bad Luck, Trouble, Death, and Vampire Sex.
You can also get a free book and that’s a damn bargain. I [...]

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Tags: Night Shade · Reviews · Richard Kadrey

Goon: Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker by Eric Powell review

February 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Over at FBS I just put up my review of Eric Powell’s first Goon original graphic novel - a nice hardcover called Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker .
Check it out!
Some more reviews next week, as well as Heliotrope news and more!
I got some interesting galleys this week (just catching up) and hopefully will [...]

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Tags: Comics · Reviews · comicbookspot.com

Review: The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll

February 25th, 2008 · No Comments

A bit of a mini streak for me, just now I put up a review of Jonathan Carroll’s The Wooden Sea over at FBS. Carroll has consitently been one of my favorite authors in my adult life - enjoy!

Check it out!
Right now I’m reading The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Fantasybookspot.com · Reviews · The Wooden Sea · books

Review: Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

February 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I want to start with the end as I think it gives you a bit of the moxy from the author that will filter through the pages of Crooked Little Vein. Many times we read the back-interior flap of a book and we read the author bio that at times has a personal touch [...]

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Tags: Book Reviews · Fantasybookspot.com · Mystery · Mysterybookspot.com · Reviews · Warren Ellis · books