Friday, April 28, 2023

Jack Womack's AMBIENT

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My next read in Jack Womack's Dryco universe, Ambient leads off with a slightly alarming precis of how this world came to be, a series ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Marina & Sergey Dyachenko's VITA NOSTRA (Tr Julia Meitov Hersey, Narr Jessica Ball)

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Book review sites, jacket copy and other official and unofficial arms of what passes for book promotion these days all seem to regard the re...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Jack Womack's ELVISSEY

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I, too had been cut loose, bereft of work, of friendship, of love, allowed only to devote life and time to readying one in whom I didn't...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Andrus Kivirähk's THE MAN WHO SPOKE SNAKISH (Tr Christopher Moseley, Narr Aaron Landon)

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I first learned about Andrus Kivirähk via the film adaptation of his novel November, which introduced the world to perhaps the greatest fol...
Friday, April 14, 2023

T. Kingfisher's A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES

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I come to the work of Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher, in somewhat backwards fashion. I knew her first as the "Wombat Test Subject...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Brian Catling's HOLLOW (Narr Jonathan Keeble)

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I keenly regret our loss last year of Brian Catling, primarily a visual artist and sculptor -- he even contributed a monument to the display...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Kathleen McLaughlin's BLOOD MONEY: THE STORY OF LIFE, DEATH AND PROFIT INSIDE AMERICA'S BLOOD INDUSTRY

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"We've built an entire segment of global medicine upon the certainty that a certain number of Americans simply can't live on a ...