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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Thomas Mullen and his latest novel, Blind Spots

    Entrevista con un autor: Thomas Mullen

    Thomas Mullen es el autor de renombre internacional de seis novelas anteriores: El último pueblo de la Tierra, Las numerosas muertes de los hermanos Luciérnaga, Los revisionistas, Darktown, Hombres…

  • Author Anthony McCarten and his latest novel, Going Zero

    Entrevista con un autor: Anthony McCarten

    Anthony McCarten es un guionista, dramaturgo, novelista y periodista nacido en Nueva Zelanda. Entre sus trabajos cinematográficos se incluyen La teoría del todo, La hora más oscura, Los dos papas…

  • Author Peter S. Beagle and his two collections of short fiction, The Essential Peter S. Beagle Volumes 1 & 2

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter S. Beagle

    Peter Soyer Beagle es el autor más vendido a nivel internacional y muy apreciado de numerosas novelas y colecciones de fantasía clásica, entre ellas El último unicornio, Tamsin, La línea entre dos…

  • Author Moses Ose Utomi and his latest novel, The Lies of the Ajungo

    Entrevista con un autor: Moses Ose Utomi

    Moses Ose Utomi es un escritor de fantasía nigeriano-estadounidense y nómada que reside actualmente en Honolulu, Hawái. Tiene una maestría en Bellas Artes en ficción por el Sarah Lawrence College y ha…

  • Author Liz Hyder and her her novel, The Gifts

    Entrevista con una autora: Liz Hyder

    Liz Hyder es escritora, directora de talleres creativos y consultora independiente de relaciones públicas para el sector artístico. Ganó el Premio The Bridge y el Premio Moniack Mhor para Escritores…

  • Author Johnny Compton and his debut novel, The Spite House

    Entrevista con un autor: Johnny Compton

    Los relatos de Johnny Compton (él/él) han aparecido en Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast y muchos otros medios. Es miembro de HWA y creador y presentador del podcast Healthy Fears. The…

  • The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles

    Entrevista con un autor: KJ Charles

    KJ Charles trabajó veinte años como editora en una editorial británica antes de abandonar el mundo de la literatura para dedicarse por completo a la novela romántica histórica. Desde entonces, ha…

  • Author Emilia Hart and her debut novel, Weyward

    Entrevista con una autora: Emilia Hart

    Emilia Hart creció en Australia y estudió Literatura Inglesa en la universidad antes de formarse como abogada. Vive en Londres. Weyward, su ópera prima, recibió una gran distinción en el Premio…

  • C.L. Polk and their book Even Though I Knew the End

    Entrevista con un autor: CL Polk

    CL Polk (ellos/ellas) escribió la serie nominada al Hugo, El Ciclo de Kingston, incluyendo la ganadora del Premio WFA, Witchmark. El Pacto de Medianoche fue finalista de Canada Reads, Nebula, Locus…

  • Author Leigh Bardugo and her latest novel, Hell Bent

    Entrevista con un autor: Leigh Bardugo

    Leigh Bardugo es una autora número 1 en ventas del New York Times y creadora del Grishaverso (ahora una serie original de Netflix), que abarca la trilogía Sombra y Hueso, la duología Seis de Cuervos…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...