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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Brent Spiner and his debut novel Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir

    Entrevista con un autor: Brent Spiner

    Brent Spiner es actor, comediante y cantante, conocido por interpretar al androide Teniente Comandante Data en Star Trek: La Nueva Generación (1987-1994). Ha aparecido en numerosos papeles de…

  • Author TJ Klune and his latest novel, Under the Whispering Door

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es el autor más vendido del New York Times y USA Today, ganador del Premio Literario Lambda, de La Casa en el Mar Cerúleo, Los Extraordinarios y más. Siendo queer, Klune cree que es…

  • Author Mallory O’Meara and her latest book, Girly Drinks

    Entrevista con una autora: Mallory O'Meara

    Mallory O'Meara es la galardonada y exitosa escritora de La Dama de la Laguna Negra. Cada semana, copresenta el podcast literario "Lectura de Gafas". Vive en las montañas cerca de Los Ángeles con sus…

  • Author Ellen Datlow and her latest book, Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror

    Entrevista con una autora: Ellen Datlow

    Ellen Datlow es una de las editoras de terror más importantes, exitosas y aclamadas. Ha ganado múltiples premios Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus y Shirley Jackson, y ha recibido premios a la trayectoria de…

  • Eric J. Guignard and his book Exploring Dark Short Fiction

    Entrevista con un autor: Eric J. Guignard

    Eric J. Guignard es escritor y editor de ficción oscura y especulativa, y trabaja desde las sombrías afueras de Los Ángeles, donde también dirige la pequeña editorial Dark Moon Books. Ha ganado dos…

  • Author Alix E Harrow and her latest book, Spindle Splintered

    Entrevista con una autora: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow, exacadémica y profesora adjunta, es una escritora ganadora del premio Hugo que reside en Virginia con su esposo y sus dos hijos, que viven en la naturaleza. Es autora de "Las diez mil…

  • Selected novels by Simon R. Green

    Entrevista con un autor: Simon R. Green

    Simon R. Green es el autor más vendido del New York Times, con más de sesenta novelas de ciencia ficción, fantasía y misterio. Simon vendió su primer libro en 1988 y al año siguiente recibió el…

  • Author Cadwell Turnwell and his latest novel, No Gods, No Monsters

    Entrevista con un autor: Cadwell Turnbull

    Cadwell Turnbull se graduó de la Maestría en Escritura Creativa de Ficción y de la Maestría en Lingüística Inglesa de la Universidad Estatal de Carolina del Norte. Turnbull también se graduó de…

  • Author Sara Nisha Adams and her debut novel, The Reading List

    Entrevista con una autora: Sara Nisha Adams

    Sara Nisha Adams es escritora y editora. Vive en Londres y nació en Hertfordshire, de padres indios e ingleses. Su primera novela, "La lista de lectura", está inspirada en parte por su abuelo, quien…

  • Author Catherynne M. Valente and her latest book, The Past is Red

    Entrevista con una autora: Catherynne M. Valente

    Catherynne M. Valente es autora bestseller del New York Times, con más de dos docenas de obras de ficción y poesía, entre las que se incluyen Palimpsest, la serie Orphan's Tales, Deathless, Radiance y…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...