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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.

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    Out of Character

    • By: Albert, Annabeth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In last year’s Conventionally Yours, Annabeth Albert took readers on a virtual roadtrip, while the country was in lockdown, so that they could join tabletop gamers Alden, Conrad, and Jasper as they made their way from New England to Las Vegas for Massive Odyssey Con West, the annual national gathering...
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    The Final Girl Support Group

    • By: Hendrix, Grady
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to...
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    Razorblade Tears

    • By: Cosby, S. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two young men, who are deeply in love, married, and fathers to a young girl. Two fathers, who cannot accept their sons as they are nor the life they are creating. Two senseless murders that remove any possibility of reconciliation or the chance to say what should have been said...
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    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. They were never heard from...
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    The Album of Dr. Moreau

    • By: Gregory, Daryl
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau was H.G. Wells’ third novel and was first published in 1896. It recounts the experiences of a shipwreck victim who finds himself on an island populated by animals that have been modified by the titular Dr. Moreau, using scientific means, to become human/animal hybrids who...
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    Mother May I

    • By: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...
  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
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    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...
  • Cover image for Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    • By: Willberg, T. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine the following:  A chilling murder, a secret detective agency with offices located in a myriad of tunnels located beneath London, and a young apprentice determined to find the killer in order to clear one of her closest friends of the murder. In her debut novel, which is the beginning...