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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 Only a Monster

    Only a Monster

    • By: Len, Vanessa
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Joan believes herself to be a typical teenager. She spends her summers in London visiting her maternal grandmother, while her father visits his family in Malaysia. During this visit, she has been volunteering at Holland House, a historic home and museum in Kensington. Holland House is where she met Nick...
  • Cover image for The Book Woman's Daughter

    The Book Woman's Daughter

    • By: Richardson, Kim Michele
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2019, Kim Michele Richardson told the story of Cussy Mary Carter and her work as a Pack Horse Librarian in The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Now, in 2022,  Richardson returns to tell the next chapter in Cussy Mary’s story, which actually belongs to her daughter, in The Book...
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    One last stop

    • By: McQuiston, Casey
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A young woman on her way to her first day of classes at Brooklyn College spills coffee on herself just prior to boarding the subway. Another young woman on the train comes to her rescue with a scarf and a kind word. The next time the student boards the train...
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    The Quarter Storm

    • By: Henry, Veronica G.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond learned the practices and customs of Vodou as a child from her father, while her family was living in Haiti. She is inhabited by the spirit of Erzulie, which makes her a gifted practitioner of water magic. Reina operates a small business behind her home...
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    One-Shot Harry

    • By: Phillips, Gary
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The year is 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. is about to hold his Freedom Rally at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles; William H. Parker is Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department; John F. Kennedy is President of the United States; Pat Brown is the Governor of California; Gas is...
  • Cover image for The Fervor: A Novel

    The Fervor: A Novel

    Meiko is the Japanese wife of Jamie Briggs, a white US Air Force pilot fighting in World War II. Meiko, and her daughter Aiko, are “residents” of the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. A few days ago, an unscheduled truck came to the camp. The residents are told to stay...
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    Mickey7

    • By: Ashton, Edward
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mickey Barnes NEEDS to get off Midgard, the colony planet on which he has lived his entire life. Because staying on Midgard is not an option, he takes the only avenue open to him: he volunteers to be the “expendable” on Midgard’s first outgoing colony ship, the Drakkar. An “expendable”...
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    Secret Identity

    • By: Segura, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 1975, the comic book industry is struggling. It has survived, mostly, Frederic Wertham’s criticisms and claims regarding a causal relationship between reading comics and becoming a juvenile delinquent in Seduction of the Innocent. But there have been casualties. Readership is down. Publishers are closing. Writers and artists are left...
  • The City We Became

    The City We Became

    • By: N. K. Jemisin
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    N.K. Jemisin is a multiple award-winning, speculative fiction writer. Currently, she resides in Brooklyn, New York and, as evidenced by her novel, The City We Became, she LOVES the “Big Apple”.Every century or so, a city will “manifest”, it becomes a living thing, an entity of its own. This has...
  • Cover image for Redwood and Wildfire

    Redwood and Wildfire

    • By: Hairston, Andrea
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Redwood Phipps is an African-American girl. Aidan Wildfire Cooper is a Seminole Irish young man. The two are brought together by a hateful act of racial violence, which affects both of them for the remainder of their lives. But both are determined to keep the event from defining them. In...