The Bodhisattva

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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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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*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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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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*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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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!

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

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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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