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Daryl M.

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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 The Picture Bride

    The Picture Bride

    The year is 1917 and a seventeen-year-old girl named Willow, who lives with her widowed mother and two younger brothers in a small, rural village in southeastern Korea, is asked by a traveling matchmaker if she wants to get married. The older woman shows Willow a photo of a young...
  • Cover image for Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan

    • By: Michalski, Liz
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refuses to grow up. J.M. Barrie wrote and published a play and two books about Peter and his adventures in the early 20th century, recounting how Peter visited the Darling children: Wendy, John, and Michael, and spirited them away...
  • Cover image for Acts of Violet

    Acts of Violet

    • By: Montimore, Margarita
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early 2020, Margarita Montimore published her debut novel, Oona Out of Order. It followed a woman who awakes every January 1st at a different point in her life. She lives in that year, and in that body, until December 31st, only to awaken the following morning beginning a different...
  • Cover image for Hawk Mountain

    Hawk Mountain

    • By: Habib, Conner
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the late afternoon, Todd sits on the beach watching 6-year-old Anthony, his son, play in the surf. A man approaches Todd, and, after a minute, he recognizes him. It is Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly during their senior year in high school. In spite of their shared history, Jack...
  • Cover image for The Kaiju Preservation Society

    The Kaiju Preservation Society

    • By: Scalzi, John
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In early March of 2020, Jamie Gray is unceremoniously demoted from marketing executive to “deliverator” at füdmüd, an internet startup company in New York City. As the COVID pandemic worsens, Jamie struggles to get by until a chance delivery happens to be to Tom Stevens. Tom tells Jamie that he...
  • Cover image for A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2021, Becky Chambers introduced readers to the moon of Panga, where, centuries ago, the civilization’s robots gained consciousness and, en masse, walked off into the surrounding wilderness and were never heard from again. Until the day a robot named Splendid Speckled Mosscap walked up to Sibling Dex, a tea...
  • Cover image for Remarkably Bright Creatures

    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    • By: Van Pelt, Shelby
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan took a job cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium. She works evenings after the aquarium has closed to the public, mopping the floors, clearing the trash cans, and cleaning the glass walls of the exhibition tanks until they shine. As she works her way around...
  • Cover image for The Children on the Hill

    The Children on the Hill

    • By: McMahon, Jennifer
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Monster. The word brings to mind ugly, misshapen creatures wreaking havoc wherever they go. Perhaps the most famous monster is Frankenstein’s monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It’s been over 200 years since the teenaged Shelley created one of the most enduring tales of all time. And over the last two...
  • Cover image for Siren Queen

    Siren Queen

    On a whim, a young Chinese-American girl pays with an inch of her hair so that she and he sister can see Romeo and Juliet at the new nickelodeon in their neighborhood. From that moment on, she has a single desire: to be a motion picture star. Not simply an...
  • Cover image for Never Been Kissed

    Never Been Kissed

    • By: Janovsky, Timothy
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    As Wren Roland celebrates his 22nd birthday with his best friends and roommates, Mateo and Avery, he begins to lament the fact that he has never been kissed. He’s been close, but has yet to experience what his degree in film studies has convinced him will be a life-altering and...