Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

Day: December 24, 2015


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Thoughtful Thursday: Happy Holidays!

We wish you a Merry Christmas!
(And for those who don’t celebrate Christmas, we wish you a lovely holiday season!)

We hope you are able to have a joyful time with the people you love.

We also hope you’ll have time to spend with some wonderful books.

How are books involved in your holiday? Will you be giving any books as gifts? If so, which ones and why?

Do you hope to receive any particular books? Or perhaps gift cards or cash to spend on books?

If so, which books do you hope to acquire,


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The Voice from the Edge Volume 4: The Deathbird & Other Stories

The Voice from the Edge Volume 4: The Deathbird & Other Stories by Harlan Ellison

The Deathbird & Other Stories: The Voice from the Edge Vol. 4 is the fourth installment in Harlan Ellison’s 5-volume THE VOICE FROM THE EDGE series. He’s a born storyteller, without question the most passionate, intense and brilliant audiobook narrator I’ve ever experienced. He captures the characters’ quirks and attitudes, and narrates with masterful pacing and tone. This is the ideal showcase for him to read his favorite stories from a career spanning over 60 years.


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The Elfstones of Shannara: Actually refreshing for today, and for when it was written

The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks

I’ve read plenty of Terry Brooks‘s fantasy novels, but among his earliest works I’ve only ever completed The Wishsong of Shannara. But with news of a television adaptation of The Elfstones of Shannara scheduled to air in 2016, I figured now was as good a time as any to delve into his backlog — and it’s interesting to see how he’s developed as a writer since then.

As the direct sequel to The Sword of Shannara,


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Curse of the Faceless Man: Ready for a modern-day excavation

Curse of the Faceless Man directed by Edward L. Cahn

Curse of the Faceless Man was hardly the first film to deal with the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent destruction of the city of Pompeii. Indeed, following English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton‘s 1834 novel The Last Days of Pompeii (itself based on a painting by Russian artist Karl Briullov entitled “The Last Day of Pompeii”), no fewer than six versions of the book appeared on film (in 1900, 1908, 1913, 1926,


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Next SFF Author: Ben Aaronovitch

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