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Books — October 11, 2016
Books released today… FEATURED TITLES BUY IT HERE Chaosmage (Age of Darkness #3) by Stephen Aryan. Epic Fantasy, Orbit The final book in the epic fantasy trilogy that began with Battlemage—expect...
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Vampire Lore — It Takes All Kinds
When giving her thoughts on Laurie London’s 2012 novel Seduced by Blood a while back, Geek Speak HQ’s paranormal romance expert Amy Sharma said this: “… vampire lore needs some sort of IEEE standard....
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Vampire Lore — One Lore to Rule Them All
Creative writing advice, via The Big Lebowski First, I must thank my colleague Rachel Hyland for her thoughts on the other side of this debate. I mean, she called me funny, and flattery will get you a...
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All the Birds in the Sky, Ancillary Justice and More…
Each week, our crack staff shares their current reading choices… BUY IT HERE I just finished A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky. I’m not sure what I expected going into this book, but it took me a few...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE! Pages from The Star Trek Encyclopedia by Michael and Denise Okuda
The Star Trek Encyclopedia is out Tuesday, October 18 [See image gallery at geekspeakmagazine.com] READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL AND DENISE OKUDA HERE
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Encyclopedic Knowledge — An Interview with Star Trek Encyclopedia Authors...
Michael and Denise Okuda are Star Trek royalty, their histories with the show spanning decades and encompassing multiple films and series. From Star Trek IV to Enterprise and across numerous...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
In this weekly series, we bring you the genre novels you really should have read by now… BUY IT HERE THE HITCHHIKERS’ GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams First Published: 1979, based on an earlier...
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A Harry Potter Interlude, Part the First
While our intrepid Harry Potter rereader, Cathy Thomson, is on vacation, check out our Editor-in-Chief’s post over at Heroes and Heartbreakers, on the hotness of various Harry Potter men. No, not the...
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Conan the Barbarian (2011)
BUY IT HERE Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard Adaptation Grade: D CONAN: When a barbarian feels thirst, it is a thirst for blood. I had every intention of liking this movie. While I...
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Quote of the Day — October 16, 2016
“We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I...
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A Harry Potter Interlude, Part the Second
While our intrepid Harry Potter rereader, Cathy van Hoof, is on vacation, check out our Editor-in-Chief’s post over at Heroes and Heartbreakers, on the hotness of various Harry Potter women. (For the...
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The Dark Series by Christine Feehan
INTRODUCTION | SERIES BUY IT HERE GENRE: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Steam, Fetish Porn SETTING: Various locales, including — unsurprisingly — Europe’s Carpathian Mountains. SEX: Explicit. Also, be...
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The New EU is Amazing
Just a small selection of the (original) Expanded Universe… In the 90s, when I was practically living in the Science Fiction and Fantasy section of the Library, the one part of the section that I...
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Books — October 18, 2016
BUY IT HERE Cocktails at Seven, Apocalypse at Eight: The Derby Cavendish Stories by Don Bassingthwaite. Urban Fantasy Collection, ChiZine I’m Derby Cavendish—that’s pronounced Derby with an “ar” sound,...
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob), and xkcd in print…
BUY IT HERE I am reading We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor — and I am LOVING it. It tells the story of Bob Johansson, a modern day computer programmer and advanced-level geek, who is hit...
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I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
In this weekly series, we bring you the genre novels you really should have read by now… BUY IT HERE I, ROBOT by Isaac Asimov First Published: 1950 (it collects stories that appeared in magazines at...
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Quote of the Day — October 19, 2016
If the real world were a book it would NEVER find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction–and, ultimately, without a major resolution. — Hamlet Something Rotten (2004) by Jasper...
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The Sunday Quiz — October 23, 2016
Time limit: 0 Quiz-summary 0 of 21 questions completed Questions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Information Please note that CORRECT SPELLING and COMPLETE ANSWERS are very...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
INTRODUCTION | SERIES BUY IT HERE This week we take a look at the longest novel of the Harry Potter series. My hardcover copy is so thick, I stood on it to change a light bulb. It’s so heavy, I needed...
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Every Day by David Levithan
Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers Grade: A “I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the...
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