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Reviews New Somewhat In the Vicinity of Some Damn Week:
Brian Greene 'Icarus at the Edge of Time' Reviewed by Rick Kleffel Joe R. Lansdale 'Leather Maiden' Reviewed by Rick Kleffel Tana French 'In the Woods' Reviewed by Terry D'Auray Dave White 'The Evil Men Do' Reviewed by Terry D'Auray Peter Crowther 'The Land at the End of the Working Day', Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Don Winslow ' 'The Dawn Patrol', Reviewed by Terry D'Auray. Ann & Jeff VanderMeer 'The New Weird', Reviewed by Mario Guslandi. Jessica Queller 'Pretty is What Changes', Reviewed by Rick Kleffel. Lee Child 'Nothing to Lose' Reviewed by Terry D'Auray. John Meaney 'Bone Song' Reviewed by Terry D'Auray. Andrew Humphrey 'Other Voices' Reviewed by Mario Guslandi. Isamu Fukui 'Truancy' Reviewed by Rick Kleffel. |
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08-28-08: Brian Greene Soars With 'Icarus at the Edge of Time' Reviewed by Rick Kleffel : Cutting-Edge Physics Leave Emotional Wounds ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : Kathryn Petruccelli Interviews Patrice Vecchione : "Poems are My Enemy".
08-27-08: Joe R. Lansdale's 'Leather Maiden' : Speaking In Voices ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : SF in SF Panel Discussion With Michael Blumlein, Michael Shea and Terry Bisson : Novella.
08-26-08: Holly Phillips Births 'The Engine's Child' : Proof in the Prose ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : Michael Blumlein Interviewed at SF in SF : Doctor in the House.
08-25-08: A 2008 Interview With Joe R. Lansdale : East Texas Westerns.
08-22-08: John Scalzi's 'Agent to the Stars' : Sci-Fi Disguise ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : NPR Report for Day to Day High-Quality MP3 of Two Stories of Santa Cruz : One Year of Podcasting.
08-21-08: Michael Moorcock Sends 'Elric : To Rescue Tanelorn' : Origins and Illustrations ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : Michael Shea Interviewed at SF in SF : Speaking of Demiurges.
08-20-08: Shannon Burke Swats 'Black Flies' : "Moments of offhand cruelty are common." ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : Michael Shea Reads at SF IN SF : The Demiurge : God Wakes Up.
08-19-08: Martin Millar Looks Back in Brevity : 'Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me' ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : Michael Blumlein Reads at SF in SF : Drama in Three Voices.
08-18-08: A 2008 Interview With Thomas Frank : "I've got some bad news for you" .
08-15-08: Janet Chui and Jason Erik Lundberg Offer 'A Field Guide to Surreal Botany' ; Surely Beautiful and Buyable ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation with Lou Anders : Post Denvention Hugo Chat.
08-14-08: 'The Darker Mask', Edited by Gary Phillips and Christopher Chambers + 'The Ghost Quartet' Edited by Marvin Kaye : All-Original Duet ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : An Interview With "Mysty W. Moonfree" : Five Authors of a Second Novel.
08-13-08: Update: Literature of Place on Day to Day : Karen Joy Fowler, James D. Houston, Tom Killion and a House in Santa Cruz.
08-13-08: Terry D'Auray Reviews 'In the Woods' : "Something untoward" ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation with Andrea Avantaggio of Maria's Bookshop : "How to celebrate the best of what our community has to offer".
08-12-08: A 2008 Interview With Andrew Davidson, Part Two : "Here's how I'm going to personalize my query letter to this agent.."
08-11-08: A 2008 Interview With Andrew Davidson, Part One : "How could I write a story that starts with a burn?"
08-08-08: David Lebedoff Looks at 'The Same Man' : 'George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love & War' ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation With Mitchell Kaplan of Books and Books: From Bookseller to Movie Producer.
08-07-08: Joe R. Lansdale Meets a 'Leather Maiden' : Texas-Fried Mystery ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation with Translator Julie Rose : Unpacking 'Les Miserables'.
08-06-08: Taking 'Flight' With 'Out of Picture' : Beyond the Underwear Perverts ; Agony Column Podcast News Report : A Conversation with Bookseller Mark V. Ziesing : Signing.
08-05-08: Agony Column Podcast News Report : David Weber vs Geekspeak : 'By Schism Rent Asunder'.
08-04-08: A 2008 Interview with Charles Bamforth : Grape vs Grain
08-01-08: Agony Column Podcast News Report : Barbara Ehrenreich Knows 'This Land is Their Land' : Reports From a Divided Nation ; Amazon Interview With Jeff VanderMeer : NPR Correspondent Rick Kleffel on Books, Insomnia, and The Agony Column.
07-31-08: Agony Column Podcast News Report : Charles Stross Vs Geekspeak : 'Saturn's (Sexless) Children'.
07-30-08: A 2008 Interview with Nathaniel Rich, Part 2 : Reality Frayed at the Edges.
07-29-08: A 2008 Interview with Nathaniel Rich, Part 1 : San Francisco Noirs.
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Elizabeth Bear's short story Botticelli. Alastair Reynolds offers readers of The Agony Column an exclusive excerpt from his science fiction mystery, 'Century Rain'. Exclusive: Susanna Clarke's The Master of Nottingham's Daughter. Do not follow this deadly link. Audio Fiction: Four Poems by Catherynne M. Valente (all under 3 MB): Electra Redux, Freaks, De Naturis Bestiarum, and Gingerbread. An Agony Column Exclusive Original Non-Fiction Work by Rhys Hughes: Bouffant Terrible: Margaret Thatcher. More infamy than a single nation can handle! Enjoy the hilarious work of Rhys Hughes in 'The Worst Hero', a complete story excerpt from his magnificently funny 'A New Universal History of Infamy' Read an excerpt from Conrad Williams' 'London Revenant', forthcoming on May 27 from Do-Not Press. Neal Asher's 'Watchcrab'! James Frey Reads from 'A Million Little Pieces' (NC-17, MP3 Audio) RealAudio: Carter Scholz Reads his story 'The Nine Billion Names of God' from 'The Amount to Carry' |
| Reviews New This Month / Reviews New Last Month / Step into 'Spook Country' with William Gibson; bring your own agenda. Mario Guslandi digs into 'Dark Delicacies 2 : Fear' and likes what he finds. Kaui Hart Hemmings' 'The Descendants' is "Girlfriend in a Coma" funny. "It's serious, it's really serious." A review of Peter F. Hamilton's big-screen space opera, 'The Dreaming Void'. Dream a little dream for me! Richard Morgan turns in a stellar prose performance in 'Black Man' / 'Thirteen'. Jim Crace remixes reality in 'The Pesthouse'. You may never escape 'Bangkok Haunts' by John Burdett. Tony Ballantyne's 'Divergence' rushes in where Saints once dared to tread. Do you have the capacity to read Tony Ballantyne's 'Capacity'? Charlaine Harris delivers dissonant delights in 'All Together Dead'. Jeremy C. Shipp's 'Vacation' is a long, strange trip. John Marks explores the world of death in 'Fangland'. Austin Grossman's 'Soon I Will Be Invincible' is really super! |
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