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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Colin Cotterill and his latest novel, The Motion Picture Teller

    Entrevista con un autor: Colin Cotterill

    Colin Cotterill es autor de quince libros de la serie Dr. Siri Paiboun. Su obra de ficción ha ganado un Premio Dilys y un CWA Dagger in the Library. Vive en Chumphon, Tailandia, con su esposa y varios…

  • Marjorie McCown and her book

    Entrevista con una autora: Marjorie McCown

    Marjorie McCown ha dedicado toda su vida profesional al mundo de la narración, aunque comenzó en el ámbito visual. Pasó más de veinticinco años en Hollywood trabajando como miembro clave de los…

  • Author Thomas Mullen and his latest novel, Blind Spots

    Entrevista con un autor: Thomas Mullen

    Thomas Mullen es el autor de renombre internacional de seis novelas anteriores: El último pueblo de la Tierra, Las numerosas muertes de los hermanos Luciérnaga, Los revisionistas, Darktown, Hombres…

  • Author Anthony McCarten and his latest novel, Going Zero

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony McCarten

    Anthony McCarten es un guionista, dramaturgo, novelista y periodista nacido en Nueva Zelanda. Entre sus trabajos cinematográficos se incluyen La teoría del todo, La hora más oscura, Los dos papas…

  • Author Peter S. Beagle and his two collections of short fiction, The Essential Peter S. Beagle Volumes 1 & 2

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter S. Beagle

    Peter Soyer Beagle es el autor más vendido a nivel internacional y muy apreciado de numerosas novelas y colecciones de fantasía clásica, entre ellas El último unicornio, Tamsin, La línea entre dos…

  • Author Moses Ose Utomi and his latest novel, The Lies of the Ajungo

    Entrevista con un autor: Moses Ose Utomi

    Moses Ose Utomi es un escritor de fantasía nigeriano-estadounidense y nómada que reside actualmente en Honolulu, Hawái. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes en ficción por el Sarah Lawrence College y ha…

  • Author Liz Hyder and her her novel, The Gifts

    Entrevista con una autora: Liz Hyder

    Liz Hyder es escritora, directora de talleres creativos y consultora independiente de relaciones públicas para el sector artístico. Ganó el Premio The Bridge y el Premio Moniack Mhor para Escritores…

  • Author Johnny Compton and his debut novel, The Spite House

    Entrevista con un autor: Johnny Compton

    Los relatos de Johnny Compton (él/él) han aparecido en Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast y muchos otros medios. Es miembro de HWA y creador y presentador del podcast Healthy Fears. The…

  • The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

    Entrevista con un autor: KJ Charles

    KJ Charles trabajó veinte años como editora en una editorial británica antes de abandonar el mundo de la literatura para dedicarse por completo a la novela romántica histórica. Desde entonces, ha…

  • Author Emilia Hart and her debut novel, Weyward

    Entrevista con una autora: Emilia Hart

    Emilia Hart creció en Australia y estudió Literatura Inglesa en la universidad antes de formarse como abogada. Vive en Londres. Weyward, su ópera prima, recibió una gran distinción en el Premio…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Middlegame

    Middlegame

    • By: McGuire, Seanan
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.Dodger Cheswich is not a...
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    Radicalized

    • By: Doctorow, Cory
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Speculative Fiction has a long history of using the tropes of the genre to comment on our world. Ursula K. Le Guin used The Left Hand of Darkness to examine cultural gender constructs. Using the original Star Trek television series, show creator Gene Roddenberry commented on issues like race relations...
  • Cover image for Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.” 'Red as Blood and White as Bone' in Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora GossTheodora Goss is an award winning-author, a professor of literature and writing at both Boston University and the Stonecoast MFA program. Her debut...
  • Cover image for The Sentence is Death

    The Sentence is Death

    • By: Horowitz, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2018, readers discovered the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s new mystery series: The Word is Murder. In it, a wealthy woman enters a London funeral parlor in the morning to make her final arrangements. She is found in her home, murdered, six hours later. When disgraced Detective Inspector Daniel...
  • Cover image for The Night Tiger

    The Night Tiger

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ji Lin is a young woman who is working as an apprentice dressmaker by day and secretly working as a “dance instructor” at a dance-hall in the evenings to repay a family debt. Ren is eleven, but tells everyone that he is thirteen. He has lost his entire family, including...
  • Cover image for Holy Lands: A Novel

    Holy Lands: A Novel

    • By: Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Harry Rosenmerck, a successful Jewish Cardiologist, just walked away. He walked away from his family, his career, his life, and everything he knew and loved to start a pig farm in Israel. This sounds like the set-up for a potentially insensitive joke, but it isn’t. Harry is deadly serious, as...
  • Cover image for An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    • By: Green, Hank,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We’ve all done it. We’ve all seen something extraordinary, glanced at it briefly, and then continued on toward our current destination, wherever that may be. We may be in a hurry, we may not. We may be alone, with someone else, or part of a group. But, regardless of our...
  • Cover image for Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    • By: Chambers, Becky.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Becky Chambers has become a name to watch in Science Fiction. She published her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in 2014 after completing it via a successful Kickstarter campaign, which was later picked up by Harper Voyager and released to a much wider readership and...
  • Cover image for Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    • By: Yolen, Jane,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jane Yolen has been working as an author for over 50 years. She has published over 300 titles, ranging from children’s books to speculative fiction (both fantasy and science fiction), and to nonfiction. She is also a poet, an instructor of writing and a reviewer of children’s literature.Jane Yolen’s books...