The Bodhisattva

Over at Fantasybookspot.com some of our contributors have put together pieces reflecting on 2006 reads and speaking on their favorites of this year thus far. No longer like the Kingslayer in Whispering Wood, I remain behind watching alone from my seat like Annatar in the Third Age. My favorite reads of 2006 have already been [...]

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I’m reading this book now actually and I know anybody who read Buckell’s Crystal Rain last year is planning on scooping this loose sequel up when it hits shelves next month. Along with being a real dope read, I think I had more fun writing my review of Crystal Rain than I did any [...]

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I have got a lot of contests that will be coming up starting next month (announcing them now would be just a too tad* early) representing a wide range of forthcoming goodies, but in the meantime get something for your damn kids, as Damon has cooked up a contest for children’s writer David [...]

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Check out the DOPE brackets!
As I discussed in a previous post, FBS’s book tournaments begin today! There are two brackets! One All Time bracket where the first round discussion/voting last until the March 15th and the 2006 bracket that moves on to the next round after tomorrow!
Make your picks and plead your [...]

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I just announced the March contest over at Fantasybookspot giving some lucky SOB a chance to win a signed copy of Hal Duncan’s Ink - the second chapter in his Book of All Hours duology that was kicked off by Vellum.

In the past (also in the future but that’s cant talk - and you’re not [...]

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I really need to be like Gwenda and just have one uniform name for my link posts. I also want to note that these links aren’t really intended to be breaking news, but just stuff I just got around to reading. Speaking of being like Gwenda, she heads the list today:
- Gwenda Bond reviews Catherynne [...]

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Fellow FBS overlord (apparently Solaris and FBS use similar professional titles*) Damon talks to the shot-callers at Solaris books who got my attention when they inked the likes of Jeffrey Thomas, Chris Roberson and Adam Roberts - automatically making their talent stable more desirable than many existing publishers
Some Japanese kid that blogs here that [...]

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There has been talk about a blog post by Paul S. Kemp (that I had seen previously) on various boards. I didn’t really have an opinion until I saw my named mentioned as a sidenote at another forum relating to it.
I have attempted a response a couple of times today, and I just ended up [...]

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Everybody else gets the perks, but at least they are with little doubt more responsible with them then I’d be. I would totally be trying to harlan Jewel Staite, who isn’t really my type honestly (too happy looking, innocent smile - I don’t trust these characteristics) * take her where she cannot stand, I [...]

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Well, I’m bending the truth. It’s not so much a preview, but a bit of a tongue-and-cheek piece I just put up a piece at Fantasybookspot.com where our contributors and myself put up the books we are most looking forward to this year . Some of you may not enjoy what I enjoy, [...]

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I never win anything.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a mean Madden Player, perhaps one the greatest Spades players to ever live, probably an untitled Chess Grandmaster, and straight-up trouble if you ran up on me in Never Winter Nights a few years ago (you had better had your boys with you because my Drow [...]

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One of my favorite features at Fantastic Metropolis was the Read and Appreciated contributions by various and numerous sources which probably still stands as one of the great sources of recommendations for recent speculative fiction and is still very much worth looking over.
So, I just wanted to share my favorite reads of the year, [...]

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Sorry for the delay, but to say I have been busy is an understatement. I want to thank everyone who has had interest in my personal countdown and hope at least some of you have found some quality reads, either to your established tastes or introduced you to something you didn’t know you would [...]

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