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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Month: October 2015

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Teenage Zombies: Mullet heads

Teenage Zombies directed by Jerry Warren

Despite the advent of Elvis Presley and the birth of rock and roll, the mid-1950s still proved to be a tough time for the American teenager… at least, on the big screen. From the juvenile delinquents in 1955’s The Blackboard Jungle and the angst-ridden James Dean in the same year’s Rebel Without a Cause, to the punks in Roger Corman’s Teenage Doll (1957) and the dopers in 1958’s High School Confidential!, theater goers in the middle of that decade were treated to a variety of troublesome predicaments befalling the nation’s youth.


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October 21st, 2015. ´s rating: | , | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |

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Marion Chats with Charles Gannon

Dr. Charles E Gannon was the Director of the Graduate English Department at St. Bonaventure University in New York until 2007 when he left to focus full-time on writing. He is part of a group of SF writers who provide guidance and advice to various US intelligence and defense agencies. His fiction includes THE TALES OF THE TERRAN REPUBLIC as well as work with Eric Flint on the 1632 universe, STARFIRE, and David Weber’s HONORVERSE. The two previous TERRAN REPUBLIC books were each short-listed for the Nebula award,


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October 20th, 2015. | | Author Interviews, Giveaway! | 19 comments |

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Tales of Cthulhu Invictus: Ancient Rome does battle with the Lovecraftian mythos

Tales of Cthulhu Invictus: Nine Stories of Battling The Cthulhu Mythos In Ancient Rome edited by Brian M. Sammons

She shivers. She is cold, and she shivers, despite the blanket that wraps her, despite her mother’s enfolding arms. 
It is not the fever, but the place.
A place that feels… old.
Old when Rome was young. Old when the she-wolf gave suckle to Romulus and Remus. Old… beyond old. Ancient, and wrong.

~from “Fecunditati Augustae,” by Christine Morgan

Tales of Cthulhu Invictus adds nine new stories to the large anthology subgenre of the Cthulhu mythos built upon the cosmic horror foundations laid by H.P.


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October 20th, 2015. ´s rating: | , | SFF Reviews | 3 comments |

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It!: Try It, you might like It!

It! directed by Herbert J. Leder

I have a feeling that I wasn’t the only baby-boomer boy to fall in love with the late British actress Jill Haworth after seeing her, over 50 years ago, in her very first film, 1960’s Exodus. Then only 15 years old, Jill – via her sweet portrayal of Karen, a tragically fated Jewish immigrant to the new Israeli state – was certainly an actress to move hearts and garner attention. Over the next few years, that attention was mainly centered on her budding romance with Exodus costar Sal Mineo,


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October 20th, 2015. ´s rating: | , | SFF Reviews | no comments |

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SHORTS: Swirsky, Scalzi, Wong, Sriduangkaew, Heisler, Brookside

There is so much free or inexpensive short fiction available on the internet these days. Here are a few stories we read this week that we wanted you to know about. 

Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) by Rachel Swirsky (2014, free at Subterranean Press)

“Mara, please wake up. I’ve made you a gift.” But gifts can be complicated: often there are strings attached, and the giver may not be completely in tune with the desires of the recipient… may, in fact,


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October 19th, 2015. , , , and | , | , | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |

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An Inheritance of Ashes: Going on my best books of 2015 list

An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah Bobet

There are two things to know about Leah Bobet’s An Inheritance of Ashes. The first is that it is going on my list of potential best books of the year. It’s that good. The other is that you should ignore the genre marketing which has Bobet’s novel listed as YA, I assume because of its sixteen-year-old protagonist. But An Inheritance of Ashes has a deeply adult sensibility, whether in its treatment of war,


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October 19th, 2015. ´s rating: | | , | SFF Reviews | 5 comments |

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The Tournament at Gorlan: A RANGER’S APPRENTICE prequel

The Tournament at Gorlan by John Flanagan

Well, I thought the RANGER’S APPRENTICE series, which I recently reviewed, was finished, but it’s not. The Tournament at Gorlan begins a prequel series which tells us what happened before we met Will on the day he became a Ranger’s apprentice. We already know some of the backstory — about how Morgarath became a traitor to the King of Araluen, destroyed the reputation of the Rangers, and tried to seize the throne. John Flanagan’s prequel series will fill in the details of those events and let us enjoy the youthful days of some of our favorite older RANGER’S APPRENTICE characters.


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October 19th, 2015. ´s rating: | | , | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |

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Isle of the Dead: “Vorvolaka! Vorvolaka!”

Isle of the Dead directed by Mark Robson

The history of the American horror film in the 1940s can practically be summarized with two words: “Universal” and “Lewton.” Throughout that decade, megastudio Universal pleased audiences with a steady stream of films dealing with Frankenstein, the Invisible Man, the Mummy and the Wolfman, culminating with the finest horror comedy ever made, 1948’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Meanwhile, over at RKO, producer Val Lewton was taking a wholly different tack, and between the years 1942 and ’46, brought to the screen no less than nine wonderful,


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October 19th, 2015. ´s rating: | , | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |

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The Crater Lake Monster: An amateur effort, but a very skilled one

The Crater Lake Monster directed by William R. Stromberg

My bad, and all that, but for some reason, I had long assumed The Crater Lake Monster was a product of the late 1950s – a black-and-white cousin of such other films dealing with thawed-out critters returning to harass modern man as The Monster That Challenged the World (1957) and The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959). Of course, I was incorrect in that surmise, and the picture in question turns out to be from the year 1977,


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October 17th, 2015. | , | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |

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Earth 2 (Vol. 1): The Gathering by James Robinson

Earth 2 (Vol. 1): The Gathering by James Robinson (writer) and Nicola Scott (artist)

I’ve been re-reading some of DCs New 52 titles now that four years have gone by and many of the initial titles have been cancelled, rebooted, reimagined, or wrapped up after a full run. To me, the three best titles that stayed consistently great — in the 4- to 5-star range — for at least five volumes of trade collections were Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, and Batwoman.


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October 17th, 2015. ´s rating: | | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |

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