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Third Annual BookSpot Central Book Tournament

February 18th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s that time! March Madness looms and our initial announcement regarding our Book Tournament is now up!
CHECK IT OUT!

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Tags: Bscreview · Reviews

Win - Dark Sword Miniatures: George R.R. Martin Masterworks contest (20 figures, 20 weeks, 20 winners!) - Lannister Lady in Waiting

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments


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Tags: Bscreview · Dark Sword miniatures · George R.R. Martin · George R.R. Martin Masterworks · Reviews · contest

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: BSCreview · Book Reviews · Excerpt · Reviews · books