Deaths and Memorials:
Aaron Eisenberg, who played Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, died last week at the age of fifty.
Books and Writing:
Heather Demetrios wrote an article last week that got a lot of attention. Taking a “learn from my mistakes” approach, Demetrios outlined how she blew through a couple of big advances without doing enough planning, leaving her nearly broke and scrambling when her books didn’t earn out.
September 25th, 2019. Marion Deeds | SFF Reviews, World Wide Wednesday | 1 comment |
Jon Keller is having breakfast in a Swiss hotel when the world ends. Another guest at the hotel receives a notification on her Twitter: Washington has been destroyed by a nuclear weapon. New York follows. Then Scotland, China, Germany. Now only twenty people remain at the hotel whilst the state of the outside world remains a mystery.
On day fifty, Jon and some of the other hotel guests find the body of a murdered girl. A historian by profession (Jon had been visiting Switzerland for an academic conference),
September 25th, 2019. Ray McKenzie´s rating: 2 | Hanna Jameson | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Cherie Priest’s 2019 Southern Gothic novel The Toll delivers the creeping terror, the strangeness and the surprises I’ve come to expect from her, since she is the queen of this subgenre. From the weird, dying little town of Staywater, Georgia, to a house haunted by dolls, to “granny women” and ghosts, to that thing in the swamp, The Toll builds and delivers on a mood that progresses from shivery to biting-your-fingernails suspenseful.
September 25th, 2019. Marion Deeds´s rating: 4.5 | Cherie Priest | Horror, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
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