Today we asked what is the science fiction, fantasy or horror book you go back to again and again? Which book sparks your imagination or speaks to you so clearly that you will be continuing to reread it again and again? We got some great answers from authors Bill Crider and Scott A. Cupp, illustrator [Read it all...]
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Review [Read it all...] Books spotted 12/30/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry Conrad A. Williams DECAY INEVITABLE Solaris Cover art by Dave McKean Yay, abstraction! Good to see some abstraction in a genre cover illustration these days. It’s a Dave McKean and does the job well — grabs the eye and says “hey, check this out.” Solaris [Read it all...] With 2009 drawing to a close, we naturally have a tendency to look back upon the year that was. We have our favorite genre-related media: books, TV, movies, comics, games and more. We asked around too and got some additional input from Doctor Who Fans Unite‘s Crystal Shedrock-Rangel, KiDDandGEEZER‘s Frank Zieglar, James Hartz from Film [Read it all...] The Way of Shadows, Shadow’s Edge and Beyond the Shadows have all been selling well at the bookstore this holiday season, and it’s not just San Antonians who are snapping them up. Brent Weeks’ best-selling Night Angel trilogy has been translated into almost a dozen languages, and the author was recently nominated for the David Gemmel Legacy Award. [Read it all...]
The original cover of Varley's "Titan" With the series returning to publication in 2006, now is a good time for readers either to reacquaint themselves with Texas native John Varley’s epic Gaea series (Titan, Wizard and Demon) or read it for the first time. While Cirroco “Rocky” Jones leads a group of [Read it all...] Books spotted 12/1/09 at Borders Books at Alamo Quarry THE DEAD THAT WALK Edited by Stephen Jones Ulysses Press Cover art by Les Edwards Zombie book covers were all the rage this year, weren’t they? Just when I thought I was well and done with any more zombie covers, Les Edwards does one that [Read it all...] Check out the San Antonio Current this week for Rick Klaw’s review of Finch, the latest novel from World Fantasy Award winner Jeff VanderMeer. Finch is the third book in The Ambergris Cycle, although Klaw points out that it certainly stands on its own and the books could be read in any order.
Ray Bradbury's all-time classic FAHRENHEIT 451 — a cautionary tale about censorship that unfortunately is as relevant as ever. Hey, SA — the ACLU Texas report Free People Read Freely 2009 is out, and it’s pretty damning, regarding the number of books banned, restricted or challenged in Texas schools. At Missions Unknown, we’re readers. [Read it all...] Books spotted 10/01/09 at Barnes & Noble (410/San Pedro) David Anthony Durham THE OTHER LANDS Doubleday Cover art by Mikko Kinnunen Cover design by Michael J. Windsor The first time I met David Anthony Durham, we were both guests at the 2007 Elf Fantasy Fair in the Netherlands. At the time, I don’t think [Read it all...] |
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