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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • John Kessel and his book Pride and Prometheus

    Interview With an Author: John Kessel

    John Kessel holds a B.A. in Physics and English and a Ph.D. in American Literature. He helped found and served as the first director of the MFA program in creative writing at North Carolina State…

  • Linda Addison and her award winning book

    Interview With an Author: Linda Addison

    Linda Addison is an award-winning poet and author writing in the genres of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction. In 2001, she became the first African-American writer to win a Bram Stoker Award for her…

  • Sarah Kendzior: the view from flyover country

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Kendzior

    Sarah Kendzior is a writer, journalist, and researcher who has studied authoritarian states in Central Asia. She is a former columnist for Al Jazeera English and is credited with being one of the…

  • Author Carter Wilson and his book "Mister Tender's Girl"

    Interview With an Author: Carter Wilson

    Carter Wilson is an award-winning, best-selling author who specializes in domestic thrillers filled with tension, paranoia, and psychological terror. He recently agreed to be interviewed by Daryl…

  • left side of graphic is the book cover of Barbary Station. right side of graphic is a photograph of the author

    Interview With an Author: R.E. Stearns

    R.E. Stearns wrote her first story on an Apple IIe computer and still kind of misses green text on a black screen. She went on to annoy all of her teachers by reading books while they lectured…

  • graphic on leftside is the book cover of Mr. Dickens and His Carol and right side is a photograph of Samantha Silva

    Interview With an Author: Samantha Silva

    Samantha Silva is an author and screenwriter based in Idaho. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, where she studied in Bologna, Italy and Washington…

  • Kill Creek book cover next to author Scott Thomas.

    Interview With an Author: Scott Thomas

    Originally from Coffeyville, Kansas, Scott Thomas attended the University of Kansas where he earned degrees in English and Film. He is the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Disney Channel’s Best…

  • Author Andrew Mayne on the right side, and book cover for The Naturalist on the left side.

    Interview With an Author: Andrew Mayne

    Andrew Mayne, is the star of A&E’s Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne. He is also a magician, novelist and the host of the Weird Things podcast. He started his first world tour as an illusionist when he was a…

  • book cover of the clockwork dynasty and photo of the author Daniel H. Wilson

    Interview With an Author: Daniel H. Wilson

    Daniel H. Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author of 10 novels, including Robopocalypse. He holds a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Brokeula

    Brokeula

    • By: Seidlinger, Michael J.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    James  Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).

  • Cover image for Mazywood

    Mazywood

    • By: Due, Tananarive
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different. 

  • Cover image for Another Fine Mess

    Another Fine Mess

    سالن تشییع جنازه ایوانز تقریباً به اندازه شهری در جنوب شرقی تگزاس که در آن واقع شده، قدمت دارد. این یک کسب و کار نسل به نسل است که از طریق زنان ایوانز اداره و به ارث رسیده است. دوسی، مادر فعلی خانواده، دختر پای است که هجده سال پیش به طرز مرموزی ناپدید شد...
  • Cover image for Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    در سال ۲۰۲۰، وی‌ای شواب خوانندگان را با ادی لارو، زن جوانی که برای جلوگیری از یک ازدواج ناخواسته در اوایل قرن ۱۸ فرانسه، معامله‌ای فاوستی انجام می‌دهد، آشنا کرد. در کتاب «زندگی نامرئی ادی لارو»، شواب ادی را در طول قرن‌ها دنبال می‌کند، همانطور که ادی، از طریق حیله‌گری و قدرت اراده خود،...
  • Cover image for Good Dirt

    Good Dirt

    • By: Wilkerson, Charmaine
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    وقتی ایبانی «ابی» فریمن ده ساله بود، تنها شاهد یک سرقت نافرجام از خانه‌اش بود که منجر به تیراندازی و مرگ برادر پانزده ساله‌اش، باز، و نابودی یک میراث خانوادگی بی‌قیمت شد. این واقعیت که ابی دختر یک خانواده سیاه‌پوست برجسته است...
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    But Not Too Bold

    زندگی دالیا صبح روزی که خدمتکار یادداشت تایپ‌شده‌ای را پیدا کرد که روی آن نوشته شده بود: «یک کلیددار جدید استخدام کنید؛ فوری؛ قبل از طلوع آفتاب» تغییر کرد. همه در خانه‌ی هوس‌باز می‌دانستند که این یادداشت به چه معناست و چه کسی آن را نوشته است. نویسنده‌ی آن، بانوی خانه‌ی هوس‌باز، لیدی آناتما، یک عنکبوت/انسان عظیم‌الجثه بود...
  • Cover image for The Murder of Mr. Ma

    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    در سال ۱۹۲۴ در لندن، لائو شی، یک چهره دانشگاهی جوان و خجالتی، به خانه ریاضیدان برتراند راسل احضار می‌شود. وقتی راسل می‌رسد، راسل توضیح می‌دهد که دوست و همکارش، قاضی دی رن جی، به اشتباه با گروهی از آشوبگران چینی دستگیر شده است. راسل می‌ترسد که اگر هویت دی فاش شود...