The Oscars:
The Shape of Water won Best Picture, and Jordan Peele’s incisive social-commentary horror film Get Out won for best original screenplay. A good year for speculative fiction.
Genevieve Valentine gives critique of the Dresses of the Red Carpet.
Conventions:
Tomorrow, March 8, I’ll head down to Walnut Creek, California for FOGCon. Expect next week’s column to be the FOGCon edition.
Books and Writing:
LitHub shares 20 adapted works whose authors loathed the adaptations.
March 7th, 2018. Marion Deeds | World Wide Wednesday | 2 comments |
Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs
Burn Bright (2018) is the fifth and latest novel in Patricia Briggs’ ALPHA AND OMEGA urban fantasy series … actually, it’s more mountainous wilderness fantasy, but it does involve werewolves and witches living amongst humans. Burn Bright, though it has different main characters, also intertwines nicely with the main MERCY THOMPSON series.
Bran, the grand-Alpha or Marrok of most of the werewolf packs in North America, is still out of town due to the events in the last MERCY THOMPSON book,
March 7th, 2018. Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Patricia Briggs | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Tomorrow’s Yesterday by A.M. Stanley
I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb in making the following sweeping statements about a certain book that I just read, A.M. Stanley’s Tomorrow’s Yesterday: You have never heard of this book, or of its author. You’ve never read anything about the book, either in print or online. This, my friends, is a lost book; one that, since its initial publication in 1949, has plummeted stone-like to the bottom of the literary pool. Not just a book that is currently out of print but is easily researchable ― there are tens of thousands of those ― but rather,
March 7th, 2018. Sandy Ferber´s rating: 3.5 | A.M. Stanley | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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this sounds like a fun one
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Looking forward to reading the review.