One of the best things about working for a newspaper is getting to, sometimes, meet your heroes. This time it was author Jim Butcher, creator of the best-selling Dresden Files books, and I had a wonderful 20-minute phone conversation with him about creating Dresden, his writing style, and why vampires will never die. Undie. Whatever. [...]
Read MoreI generally have several books going at any one time. There are the books on my iPhone, the books on my Kindle, the books in the bathroom, the books I'm reading to review, and the books I picked up and skimmed before setting aside to get to later. Just recently I read "Agatha H. and [...]
Read MoreIt was announced today that Tor Books, the largest science fiction and fantasy publisher, will from this point on publish its ebooks without DRM restrictions. This means that once you buy the book, you can convert it and read it on any platform. Kindle, Nook, ebook app, whatever. This is a huge deal. It's also [...]
Read MoreYou have no idea how happy this makes me. Let me just say that of the comics I've collected over the years, "Groo" is the one I've followed across 4, maybe 5 different comics companies and will buy on sight. From Comics Alliance, with more details here. Coming from Dark Horse this April.
Read MoreFor nearly 10 years now, I've had an electronic device stuck in my hand. Which was an upgrade, really, as before that there was usually a book there. But as soon as I picked up a Palm Pilot and found I could read books on it, dozens, hundreds of books I could carry around with [...]
Read MoreEver since DC announced their upcoming massive do-over, where all their books will stop and start over at #1. 52 books coming out altogether, and there will be changes aplenty. Superman is losing his red trunks and his wife — because making Spider-Man's marriage go away made so many fans happy over at Marvel — [...]
Read MoreI've loved Spider-Man for over 40 years, but nothing in all that run entertained me as much as the "Ultimate Spider-Man" series by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley. A reinvented Spider-Man, with all the humor and relationships and twisty plots that I loved from my childhood but with relevance to today, an incredible ear [...]
Read MoreThe newest and most eagerly awaited Serenity comic is coming November 24, and you can preorder it now for 20% off. "The Shepherd's Tale" finally opens up the life of Derrial Book. Written by Zack Whedon based on Joss' outline and drawn by Chris Samnee, it'll be 56 pages and published in hardcover. One of [...]
Read MoreSo Titan Books came out with the Serenity Companion, which included the screenplay and interviews and behind-the-scenes stuff and tons of pictures and was exceedingly good. Then they produced two Firefly Companions, which contained scripts from all the episodes as well as even more interviews and pictures and insider stuff, and they were also exceedingly [...]
Read MoreStarShipSofa, the British online audio science fiction anthology magazine, has released a novella by Lawrence Santaro called "Lord Dickens's Declaration." You can listen to it for free — that's what they do, after all; present audio presentations of top science fiction by authors such as Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow, Michael Bishop, Tad Williams, [...]
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