Showing posts with label SFFaudio.com. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SFFaudio.com. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2012

The Zombie Survival Guide, a review

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The next time a Class 2 zombie outbreak occurs in my neighborhood, I’ll be well-prepared to deal with the shambling corpses of hungry un...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Last Call by Tim Powers, a review

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Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Audio zombies: A review of We’re Alive: A Story of Survival, season one

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As a lover of all things zombie I leapt at the chance to review the first season of We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the first seas...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Back, and with more Red Nails

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Whew, I'm back from a week-long, stressful business trip to San Diego during which I had no time to blog. But now that I'm home agai...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Robert E. Howard “Red Nails” podcast Saturday

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“Five dead dogs!” exclaimed Techotl, his flaming eyes reflecting a ghastly exultation. “Five slain! Five crimson nails for the black pilla...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

A dalliance in murder ... Donald Westlake's The Hook

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I recently agreed to review the audio book of  Donald Westlake's The Hook  for SFFaudio.com. It's a mystery/suspense novel, I believ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

The Name of the Wind: The Emperor may have clothes, but they don’t fit me

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What do you want out of your fantasy? Exotic places? People different than the ones you know? High language? The clangor of battle? Wonders ...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Stretching the boundaries of genre: A review of the Martin-Dozois anthology Warriors

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“People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

The Broken Sword, an (audio) review

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Note: This post also appears on SFFaudio.com . The Viking Age of England offers fertile ground for storytelling. It was a time of strong men...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

IT: A review

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You don’t have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever, live with them forever, love with them forever. ...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Eyes of the Dragon--a review

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After writing his magnum opus IT , Stephen King briefly stepped away from the genre that defined his career. The result was The Eyes of the ...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A review of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles

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All right, then, what is Chronicles ? Is it King Tut out of the tomb when I was three? Norse Eddas when I was six? And Roman/Greek gods that...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

A trifecta of links

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Cross-posted from The Cimmerian , here's some interesting links from around the web. The second issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is ou...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

I never said I had the gift of gab: Podcasting on SFFaudio.com

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Didn't get enough of my review of The Steel Remains ? Now you can hear more of my thoughts on Richard K. Morgan's new novel over at ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Still funny after all these years, and better than ever on audio

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Humor is arguably the most difficult genre of writing to pull off. Hampered by the limitations of the print medium, humor writers must ply t...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Slaughterhouse-Five: A review

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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love he...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Stripped-down version of Desperation rates as middling King

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I had high hopes for Stephen King’s Desperation (small band of people held captive in a demon-haunted mining town, breaking loose to battl...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Thinner: Vintage King gets new life on audio

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I put off reading Stephen King’s Thinner for the better part of two decades. The dust jacket description—lawyer runs down gypsy and is cur...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Elric of Melnibone--a review

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It’s a testament to the imaginative might of author Michael Moorcock that his most famous creation, Elric of Melnibone, has become a permane...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The Halloween Tree: Illuminating death's great mystery

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What is Halloween? How did it start? Where, why, what for? Witches, cats, mummy dust, haunts… it’s all there in the country from which no o...