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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Serena Burdick and her latest book, Find Me in Havana

    Entrevista con una autora: Serena Burdick

    Serena Burdick se graduó de la Academia Americana de Artes Dramáticas en California antes de mudarse a Nueva York para estudiar Literatura Inglesa en el Brooklyn College. Autora de los best sellers…

  • Author C.S. Malerich and her latest novella, The Factory Witches of Lowell

    Entrevista con un autor: CS Malerich

    CS Malerich es la autora de la novela Fire & Locket. Además de escribir, ha impartido clases de mitología a estudiantes de la Universidad de Maryland y se ha interesado por el folclore, los estudios…

  • Author T.A. Willberg and her debut novel, Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Entrevista con un autor: TA Willberg

    TA Willberg nació en Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, y tiene una maestría en quiropráctica de la Universidad Tecnológica de Durban. Actualmente vive en Malta con su pareja. Marion Lane and the Midnight…

  • Author Paul Cornell and his book series, Witches of Lychford

    Entrevista con un autor: Paul Cornell

    Paul Cornell es escritor de ciencia ficción y fantasía en prosa, cómic y televisión. Es una de las dos únicas personas nominadas al Premio Hugo en las tres disciplinas. Escribió Doctor Who para la BBC…

  • Author Michel Faber and his latest book, (A Tale of Two Worlds)

    Entrevista con un autor: Michel Faber

    Michel Faber ha escrito otros siete libros, entre ellos los aclamados El pétalo carmesí y el blanco, Los gemelos Fahrenheit y la novela Bajo la piel, preseleccionada para el premio Whitbread. La…

  • Author Charlie N. Holmberg and her latest book, Spellbreaker

    Entrevista con un autor: Charlie N. Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg es una autora de fantasía y novela romántica galardonada, superventas y publicada internacionalmente. Creció como trekkie junto a tres hermanas, que también tienen nombres de niño…

  • Author P. Djèlí Clark and his latest book, Ring Shout

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djèlí Clark

    Phenderson Djéli Clark es el autor ganador de premios y nominado a los premios Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon y World Fantasy de las novelas cortas The Black God's Drums y The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Nacido…

  • Author David Gerrold and his latest book, Hella

    Entrevista con un autor: David Gerrold

    David Gerrold lleva medio siglo escribiendo profesionalmente. Creó a los tribbles para Star Trek y a los Sleestaks para La Tierra de los Perdidos. Su novela más famosa, de las más de 50 que ha escrito…

  • Author and screenwriter, Simon Stephenson and his latest book, Set My Heart to Five

    Entrevista con un autor: Simon Stephenson

    Simon Stephenson es autor y guionista (y una vez, en una galaxia muy, muy lejana, fue médico). Es originario de Edimburgo, Escocia, pero actualmente reside en Los Ángeles, California. Disfruta de todo…

  • Freelance journalist, Stuart Turton and his latest book, The Devil and the Dark Water

    Entrevista con un autor: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton es un periodista independiente que vive en el oeste de Londres con su esposa. No se puede confiar en Stuart, en el mejor sentido de la palabra. Las 7½ muertes de Evelyn Hardcastle (2018)…


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...