Robot

Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Tobias Buckell and his latest novel, A Stranger in the Citadel

    Entrevista con un autor: Tobias S. Buckell

    Calificado como "violento, poético y de lectura compulsiva" por Maclean's, el autor de ciencia ficción Tobias S. Buckell es un escritor superventas del New York Times y ganador del Premio Mundial de…

  • Author Emily Critchley and her debut novel, One Puzzling Afternoon

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Critchley

    Emily Critchley ha vivido en Essex, Brighton y Londres, y ahora reside en Hertfordshire, donde trabaja como bibliotecaria. Tiene una licenciatura con honores en Escritura Creativa por la Universidad…

  • Editor John Joseph Adams and his latest anthology, Out There Screaming

    Entrevista con un editor: John Joseph Adams

    John Joseph Adams es editor de la serie Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy y editor de más de cuarenta antologías, como Wastelands, The Living Dead y A People's Future of the United States…

  • Collage of favorite books

    Mis libros favoritos de 2023

    ¡Lecturas de temporada para todos! Como suele ser habitual, en 2023 se han publicado libros maravillosos, y me emociona compartir mis favoritos. Como he hecho en los últimos años, he ordenado estos…

  • Author Delilah S. Dawson and her latest novel, Midnight at the Houdini

    Entrevista con una autora: Delilah S. Dawson

    Delilah S. Dawson es la escritora bestseller del New York Times de Star Wars: Phasma, Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade, The Disney Mirrorverse: Pure of Heart, Bloom, The…

  • Author Daniel Sweren-Becker and his latest novel, Kill Show: A True Crime Novel

    Entrevista con un autor: Daniel Sweren-Becker

    Daniel Sweren-Becker es autor, guionista de televisión y dramaturgo residente en Los Ángeles. Su obra "Stress Positions" se estrenó en el SoHo Playhouse de Nueva York. Creció en Manhattan. Es autor de…

  • Author Connie Willis and her latest novel, The Road to Roswell

    Entrevista con una autora: Connie Willis

    Connie Willis es miembro del Salón de la Fama de la Ciencia Ficción y Gran Maestra de la Asociación de Escritores de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasía de Estados Unidos. Ha recibido siete premios Nebula y…

  • Author Lina Rather and her newest book, A Season of Monstrous Conceptions

    Entrevista con una autora: Lina Rather

    Lina Rather es una autora de ficción especulativa y estudiante de posgrado que reside en el centro de Nueva York. Sus relatos cortos se han publicado en medios como Lightspeed, Podcastle y Shimmer. Su…

  • Author Hajar Yazdiha and her book, The Struggle for the People’s King

    Entrevista con una autora: Hajar Yazdiha

    Hajar Yazdiha es Profesora Adjunta de Sociología, miembro del cuerpo docente del Instituto de Investigación de Equidad y Becaria Global Azrieli de CIFAR (2023-2025). La Dra. Yazdiha obtuvo su…

  • Author Dr. Kathryn Harkup and her latest book, The Secret Lives of Molecules

    Entrevista con una autora: Dra. Kathryn Harkup

    La Dra. Kathryn Harkup es una exquímica y escritora. Completó un doctorado sobre sus sustancias químicas favoritas, las fosfinas, y continuó su investigación postdoctoral antes de darse cuenta de que…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Hell Bent

    Hell Bent

    • By: Bardugo, Leigh
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    At the end of Ninth House, Galaxy “Alex” Stern solved the mystery of who killed Tara Hutchins and why, uncovering a conspiracy that involved some of the highest offices of Yale University and several of their “secret societies.” At the end of the novel, Darlington, Alex’s advisor in Lethe, the “ninth...
  • Cover image for The Motion Picture Teller

    The Motion Picture Teller

    • By: Cotterill, Colin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Supot Yongjaiyut knows he is not living his best life. The year is 1996 and Supot lives in Bangkok. During the day, he works for the Royal Thai Mail Service, a job he loathes and for which he knows he has no aptitude. When he’s not at work, he spends...
  • Cover image for Weyward: A Novel

    Weyward: A Novel

    • By: Hart, Emilia
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”  From: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence by Adrienne RichAltha is a 21-year-old woman who, in 1619, is accused of, and tried for, witchcraft in her small English village. She is a...
  • Cover image for Stone Blind

    Stone Blind

    • By: Haynes, Natalie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "I only see them for an instant. Then they're gone. But it's enough. Enough to know that the hero isn't the one who's kind or brave or loyal. Sometimes -- not always, but sometimes -- he is monstrous. And the monster? Who is she? She is what happens when someone...
  • Cover image for The Getaway

    The Getaway

    • By: Giles, Lamar
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Karloff Country is a marvel. Modeled on Walt Disney World in Florida, Karloff Country is a slightly smaller theme park/resort complex with a similar number of theme parks as Walt Disney World, but also includes: planned communities for all of its employees, a power plant, vertical farms to provide the...
  • Cover image for Paperback Jack

    Paperback Jack

    • By: Estleman, Loren D.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1946. WWII has ended and Jacob Heppleman is one of the many veterans returning home from the European conflict. For Jacob, home is New York City. Before the war, he wrote detective, western, and war stories for the pulp magazines. He even published a novel that was...
  • Cover image for Neom

    Neom

    • By: Tidhar, Lavie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A sprawling metropolis on the edge of the Red Sea that is simultaneously a playground of the wealthy and a struggle for the poor. A woman working multiple jobs to survive because she isn’t rich in a place that isn’t kind to someone without money. A young boy, alone in...
  • Cover image for Gallant

    Gallant

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Olivia Prior has lived at Merilance since she was two years old. While Merilance calls itself a school, the truth is that it is closer to an asylum, a prison. It is a place where girls and young women who are not wanted are sent when they have nowhere else...
  • Cover image for Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    • By: McAllister, Gillian
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It is a given that, in most mystery novels, someone dies. The death occurs either before, or shortly after, the novel begins. The bulk of the narrative will explore how or why someone died. In her new novel, Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister finds a new way to approach...