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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Clay McLeod Chapman and his latest novel, The Remaking

    Entrevista con un autor: Clay McLeod Chapman

    Clay McLeod Chapman es el creador de la sesión narrativa The Pumpkin Pie Show y autor de Rest Area, Nothing Untoward y la trilogía Tribe. En el mundo del cómic, su obra incluye Lazaretto, Iron Fist…

  • Kelli Estes and her latest novel, Today We Go Home

    Entrevista con una autora: Kelli Estes

    Kelli Estes vivió en los desiertos del este del estado de Washington y Arizona antes de establecerse en la zona de Seattle, que ama tanto que planea vivir para siempre cerca del agua. Le apasionan las…

  • Scott Thomas and his latest novel, Violet

    Entrevista con un autor: Scott Thomas

    La novela debut de Scott Thomas, Kill Creek, es una clásica "casa embrujada" adaptada al siglo XXI. También es una carta de amor al género de terror, a sus autores y lectores. Ahora Thomas regresa con…

  • Shaun Hamill and his first novel, A Cosmology of Monsters

    Entrevista con un autor: Shaun Hamill

    Shaun Hamill es originario de Arlington, Texas. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes del Taller de Escritores de Iowa y vive en los oscuros bosques de Alabama con su esposa, sus suegros y su perro. "Una…

  • Jennifer Giesbrecht and her first book, The Monster of Elendhaven

    Entrevista con una autora: Jennifer Giesbrecht

    Jennifer Giesbrecht es originaria de Halifax, Nueva Escocia, donde se licenció en Historia, se formó como artista callejera profesional y desarrolló un profundo y reverente respeto por el océano…

  • Rhys Thomas and his new novel, The Secret Life of Sam Holloway

    Entrevista con un autor: Rhys Thomas

    Rhys Thomas es el autor de El Club del Suicidio y El Tercer Día. Vive en Cardiff, Gales, con su pareja y tres gatos. Su nueva novela es La Vida Secreta de Sam Holloway y recientemente aceptó hablar…

  • Sarah David-Goff and her debut novel, Last Ones Left Alive

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Davis Goff

    Sarah Davis-Goff nació y vive en Dublín. Sus escritos se han publicado en el Irish Times, The Guardian y LitHub. Last Ones Left Alive es su primera novela y recientemente aceptó hablar sobre ella con…

  • Dahlia Adler and her book His Hideous Heart

    Entrevista con una autora: Dahlia Adler

    Dahlia Adler es editora asociada de matemáticas de día, bloguera de B&N Teens, LGBTQ Reads y Frolic by night, y autora de novelas para adultos jóvenes y adultos jóvenes en cada momento libre. Entre…

  • Alix E. Harrow and her first novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January

    Entrevista con una autora: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow es historiadora a tiempo parcial con un trabajo de oficina a tiempo completo, muchas opiniones y multas bibliotecarias excesivas. Sus relatos cortos han aparecido en Shimmer, Strange…


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...