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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author S.L. Coney and her debut novel Wild Spaces

    Entrevista con un autor: SL Coney

    SL Coney obtuvo una maestría en psicología clínica antes de abandonar la academia para dedicarse a la escritura. La autora tiene vínculos con Carolina del Sur y raíces en San Luis. Su obra ha…

  • Author Fulton Ross and his debut novel, The Unforgiven Dead

    Entrevista con un autor: Fulton Ross

    Fulton Ross es un escritor y periodista de las Tierras Altas de Escocia. Licenciado en Literatura e Historia Escocesas por la Universidad de Glasgow, ha trabajado en periódicos nacionales durante más…

  • Author Timothy Janovsky and his latest novel, New Adult

    Entrevista con un autor: Timothy Janovsky

    Timothy Janovsky es un narrador queer y multidisciplinario de Nueva Jersey. Es licenciado en teatro y danza por el Muhlenberg College. Su trabajo como escritor de humor ha aparecido en Points in Case…

  • Author Amiee Gibbs and her debut novel, The Carnivale of Curiosities

    Entrevista con una autora: Amiee Gibbs

    Amiee Gibbs creció en la zona rural de Maryland, donde aún vive en una carretera supuestamente embrujada, pero sueña con escaparse a Irlanda. Ha trabajado para Penguin Random House durante 13 años…

  • Author Mat Osman and his latest novel, The Ghost Theatre

    Entrevista con un autor: Mat Osman

    Mat Osman es músico, compositor, bajista y miembro fundador de la banda británica Suede, además de compositor para cine y televisión. Sus escritos sobre arte y viajes han aparecido en The Guardian…

  • Author Josh Winning and his latest novel, Burn the Negative

    Entrevista con un autor: Josh Winning

    Josh Winning es el autor de la aclamada obra The Shadow Glass. Es escritor de cine sénior en Radio Times, ha escrito para Total Film durante más de una década y es copresentador del podcast de cine…

  • Author Alex Hay and his debut novel, The Housekeepers

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Hay

    Alex Hay creció en el Reino Unido, en Cambridge y Cardiff, y ha escrito desde que tiene memoria. Estudió historia en la Universidad de York y escribió su tesis sobre el poder femenino en las cortes…

  • Author T. Kingfisher and her latest book, Thornhedge

    Entrevista con un autor: T. Kingfisher

    T. Kingfisher (ella) escribe fantasía, terror y, ocasionalmente, rarezas, como Nettle & Bone, What Moves the Dead y A House with Good Bones. Bajo seudónimo, también escribe libros infantiles…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest book, Things Get Ugly

    Entrevista con un autor: Joe R. Lansdale

    Joe R. Lansdale es el autor de más de cincuenta novelas, éxito de ventas internacional, incluyendo las populares y longevas novelas de Hap y Leonard. Muchos de sus clásicos de culto han sido adaptados…

  • Author Joss Rountree and his debut novel, The Legend of Charlie Fish

    Entrevista con un autor: Josh Rountree

    Josh Rountree ha publicado más de sesenta relatos en una amplia variedad de revistas y antologías, incluyendo Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, The Deadlands, Bourbon Penn, PseudoPod…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Narrowboat Summer

    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...
  • Cover image for Hella

    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...
  • Cover image for The Devil and the Dark Water

    The Devil and the Dark Water

    • By: Turton, Stuart
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In a "locked-room" or "impossible crime" mystery, a crime, or series of crimes, is committed under circumstances that appear, at least initially, impossible for said crime to have been enacted. Those same conditions will also seem to preclude the criminal entering or exiting the crime scene.The first “locked-room” mystery was...
  • Cover image for The Eighth Detective

    The Eighth Detective

    • By: Pavesi, Alex
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In the early 1940s, a Scottish professor of mathematics devises a mathematical definition of the murder mystery story and writes seven provocative stories as proof of his theory. He publishes a journal article regarding his ideas and then self-publishes his seven stories in a small volume, entitled The White Murders.Decades...