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The Immortals After Dark Series by Kresley Cole
BUY IT HERE GENRE: Paranormal Steam. SETTING: Southern Louisiana, and elsewhere around the globe. SEX: That Cole’s website’s tagline is “Passion is power” should tell you pretty much all you need to...
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Books — October 25, 2016
Books out today… FEATURED TITLES BUY IT HERE Altered Starscape (Andromedan Dark #1) by Ian Douglas. Hard SF, Harper Voyager 2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St....
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C. S. Friedman, and Some Old-Fashioned But Innovative Space Opera…
Each week, our crack staff shares their current reading choices… BUY IT HERE I’ve been trying to read Dreamwalker by C.S. Friedman for a while now. A friend loaned it to me because she and I share an...
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Quote of the Day — October 26, 2016
Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. — Arthur Weasley Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) by J. K. Rowling
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Neuromancer by William Gibson
In this weekly series, we bring you the genre novels you really should have read by now… BUY IT HERE NEUROMANCER by William Gibson First Published: 1984 Genre: Science Fiction Subgenre: Cyberpunk A...
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The Stand
BUY IT HERE Written by: Stephen King, 1978 Instrument of the Apocalypse: A superflu known as “Captain Trips” that kills over 99% of the population. Summary: After a superbug created by the U.S....
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Stunning Non-Fiction, Frenetic Science Fiction and the Hilarious Snarkout Boys…
BUY IT HERE I just finished Cloak of War by Rhonda Mason. This is the second in her Empress Game trilogy, the first of which I finished in a speedy couple of hours and rhapsodized over last week. This...
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Cast in Flight (Chronicles of Elantra #12) by Michelle Sagara
Morning was not Kaylin’s friend. GRADE: A- When we left our heroine two books back in Cast in Flame, Hawk Private and human healer Kaylin Neya was a part of a huge battle in which we saw Dragons and...
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So Many Blessings — An Interview with Author Sharon Shinn
Elemental Blessings, Book 1. BUY IT HERE Author Sharon Shinn creates some of the most unusual and fascinating worlds in genre fiction today. A planet where angels act as administrators and guides and a...
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Books — November 1, 2016
Books out today… BUY IT HERE An Import of Intrigue (Maradaine Constabulary #2) by Marshall Ryan Maresca. Fantasy, DAW The neighborhood of the Little East is a collision of cultures, languages, and...
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The Book of the New Sun Quartet
BUY IT HERE Written by: Gene Wolfe, 1980-1983 Instrument of the Apocalypse: A cooling Earth (Urth) due to a dying sun. Summary: I find these books, which are worshipped among lovers of hard SF, to be...
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Quote of the Day — November 7, 2016
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death...
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Geek Dilemma #4
Hi Geek Gurus. I am 13 years old and have just finished reading all of the Harry Potter books. I found GeekSpeakMagazine when I was googling advice about what to read next. Can you help? There are too...
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The Children of Men
BUY IT HERE Written by: P.D. James, 1992 Instrument of the Apocalypse: Unexplained global infertility epidemic. Summary: Late in the twenty-first century, men’s sperm counts suddenly and inexplicably...
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Introducing the Official Vampire Lore Standards — Because Enough is Enough
Last month I argued (rather well, if I do say so myself) in a Geek VS Geek that we need some basic standards for vampire lore for use by authors and screenwriters across the board. Following up on my...
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The Official Vampire Lore Standards, Part 1
THE OFFICIAL VAMPIRE LORE STANDARDS (or OVLS for short) I: Life, or How Do You Make a Vampire? Lestat sires Louis… Pretty much all the Ancient myths have sinners, drunkards, unbelievers, outcasts,...
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The Official Vampire Lore Standards, Part 2
THE OFFICIAL VAMPIRE LORE STANDARDS (or OVLS for short) continued… See Part 1 here III: Cool Powers? Movie Blade is only a “half-vampire”, but he still has the cool superpower of, well, being cool....
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The Official Vampire Lore Standards, Part 3
THE OFFICIAL VAMPIRE LORE STANDARDS (or OVLS for short) continued… See Part 1 here, and Part 2 here V: Death, or How Do You Kill a Vampire? Abraham Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) dispatches a vampire in...
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Quote of the Day — June 23, 2017
It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. — Hyperion (1989) by Dan Simmons
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Harry Potter at 20 — A Confession
So, Harry Potter turns twenty today, with his first adventure published on June 26, 1997. As a consequence, I was invited to write a few words about what J. K. Rowling’s best-selling series means to...
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