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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Alma Katsu and her latest novels, The Fervor

    Entrevista con una autora: Alma Katsu

    Alma Katsu es la galardonada autora de seis novelas, las más recientes: Viuda Roja, Lo Profundo y El Hambre. Se graduó del programa de maestría en escritura de la Universidad Johns Hopkins y obtuvo su…

  • Author Gary Philips and his latest novel, One-Shot Harry

    Entrevista con un autor: Gary Phillips

    Hijo de un mecánico y una bibliotecaria, Gary Philips ha publicado diversas novelas, cómics, novelas cortas y relatos cortos, ha trabajado en televisión y ha editado o coeditado varias antologías…

  • Author Peter Swanson and his latest novel, Nine Lives

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson es el autor bestseller del New York Times de ocho novelas, entre las que se incluyen The Kind Worth Killing, ganadora del Premio del Libro de la Sociedad de Nueva Inglaterra y finalista…

  • Author Kate Moore and her first novel, Only A Monster

    Entrevista con una autora: Vanessa Len

    Vanessa Len es una autora australiana de ascendencia chino-malaya y maltesa. Editora educativa, ha trabajado en diversos ámbitos, desde programas de aprendizaje de idiomas hasta recursos STEM y…

  • Author Edward Ashton and his latest novel, Mickey7

    Entrevista con un autor: Edward Ashton

    Edward Ashton es autor de las novelas Tres días de abril y El fin de lo ordinario, así como de relatos cortos que han aparecido en publicaciones que van desde el boletín de una empresa italiana de…

  • Author Sequoia Nagamatsu and his debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark

    Entrevista con un autor: Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Sequoia Nagamatsu es un escritor japonés-estadounidense y editor jefe de Psychopomp Magazine, una revista trimestral en línea dedicada a la prosa innovadora. Originario de Hawái y del área de la Bahía…

  • Author Alex Segura and his latest novel, Secret Identity

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura es el autor de Star Wars Poe Dameron: Caída Libre y la aclamada serie de misterio de Pete Fernández. También ha escrito varios cómics, entre los que destacan la novela negra de superhéroes…

  • Author Freya Marske and her debut novel, A Marvellous Light

    Entrevista con una autora: Freya Marske

    Freya Marske es una de las copresentadoras de Be the Serpent, un podcast nominado al Premio Hugo sobre ciencia ficción y fantasía, fandom y tropos literarios. Su obra se ha vendido a Analog y ha sido…

  • Author Andrea Hairston and her latest novel, Redwood and Wildfire

    Entrevista con una autora: Andrea Hairston

    Andrea Hairston es novelista, ensayista, dramaturga y directora artística de Chrysalis Theatre. Es autora de Mindscape, preseleccionado para los premios Phillip K. Dick y de otros premios, y ganador…

  • Journalist and editor, Eliza Reid and her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar

    Entrevista con una autora: Eliza Reid

    Eliza Reid es periodista, editora y cofundadora del Retiro Anual de Escritores de Islandia. Eliza creció en una granja de recreo cerca de Ottawa, Canadá, y se mudó a Islandia en 2003, cinco años…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Narrowboat Summer

    The Narrowboat Summer

    • By: Youngson, Anne
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eve has spent the last 30 years working for an engineering/manufacturing company managing various projects and climbing the corporate ladder. Suddenly, she has been “released” from her position. She is a corporate scapegoat for systemic problems within her company and, as the only woman at her management level, the seemingly...
  • Cover image for Good Neighbors: A Novel

    Good Neighbors: A Novel

    • By: Langan, Sarah
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The first season of The Twilight Zone in 1960 included an episode written by show creator Rod Serling entitled “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” Serling presented a block of homes, filled with “typical” American families, on a summer evening. There is a bright flash of light, whose origin...
  • Cover image for N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

    • By: Armour, Jody David
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jody Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. He studies issues of race and legal decision-making as well as torts and tort reform movements. He also studies and teaches on the intersections of language, the law and ethics. His latest book directly...
  • Cover image for The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

    The year is 1704 and Lady Cecily Kay has returned to London from her husband’s posting as a consul in Smyrna. Upon learning of her imminent return to the British Isles, Cecily sent a letter to Sir Barnaby Mayne, a renowned collector in London with one of the most expansive...
  • Cover image for Hella

    Hella

    • By: Gerrold, David, 1944-
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    David Gerrold is speculative fiction royalty. His career spans six decades, over which he has won the Hugo and the Nebula awards. He has written more than 50 novels, worked on numerous television series and created cultural touchstones like tribbles (from Star Trek) and the Sleestak (from The Land of...
  • Cover image for The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

    • By: Zapata, Michael
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A pirate, a refugee, two pre-teen boys in love with speculative fiction stories, and two adult men who are friends and are each searching for what seems to be missing in their lives. Over the course of nearly a century, these disparate individuals will orbit the missing manuscript of a...
  • Cover image for The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    • By: Turton, Stuart
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
  • Cover image for The Eighth Detective

    The Eighth Detective

    • By: Pavesi, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...