Saturday, June 13, 2026

Bao Ninh's THE SORROW OF WAR (Tr Frank Palmos & Phan Thanh Hao, Narr James Langton)

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Kien himself would have been dead long ago if it had not been for the sacrifice of others; he might even have killed himself to escape the p...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Jerrod Edson's THE BOULEVARD

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Not since Robert A. Heinlen*'s Job: A Comedy of Justice  gave us the jovial, folksy Devil in the person of Jerry Farnsworth has Old Nick...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Ursula Whitcher's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON

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Sometimes there's a better way to show me the society, the world an author is imagining than via a single piece of narrative fiction. If...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Ann LeBlanc's THE TRANSITIVE PROPERTIES OF CHEESE

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Whomst among us hasn't been here: you're the very best cheesemaker (curd nerd in the parlance) outside of Earth's gravity well, ...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Helen Oyeyemi's GINGERBREAD (Narr by the author)

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Once I thought I had a hard and fast rule that no novel narrated for its audio edition by its author could be as good as one narrated by a p...
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Friday, May 8, 2026

Ernest Hogan's CORTEZ ON JUPITER

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I don't know about you guys, but if we have to have a Palmer Eldritch figure in our damnable future, I would much rather it be a Latinx ...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Michael Weingrad's EUGENE NADELMAN: A TALE OF THE 1980s IN VERSE

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There ought to be so many books like this,  As writ in verse, in meter and in rhyme,  Yet telling modern tales, or modern-ish --...