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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Brent Spiner and his debut novel Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir

    Entrevista con un autor: Brent Spiner

    Brent Spiner es actor, comediante y cantante, conocido por interpretar al androide Teniente Comandante Data en Star Trek: La Nueva Generación (1987-1994). Ha aparecido en numerosos papeles de…

  • Author TJ Klune and his latest novel, Under the Whispering Door

    Entrevista con un autor: TJ Klune

    TJ Klune es el autor más vendido del New York Times y USA Today, ganador del Premio Literario Lambda, de La Casa en el Mar Cerúleo, Los Extraordinarios y más. Siendo queer, Klune cree que es…

  • Author Mallory O’Meara and her latest book, Girly Drinks

    Entrevista con una autora: Mallory O'Meara

    Mallory O'Meara es la galardonada y exitosa escritora de La Dama de la Laguna Negra. Cada semana, copresenta el podcast literario "Lectura de Gafas". Vive en las montañas cerca de Los Ángeles con sus…

  • Author Ellen Datlow and her latest book, Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror

    Entrevista con una autora: Ellen Datlow

    Ellen Datlow es una de las editoras de terror más importantes, exitosas y aclamadas. Ha ganado múltiples premios Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus y Shirley Jackson, y ha recibido premios a la trayectoria de…

  • Eric J. Guignard and his book Exploring Dark Short Fiction

    Entrevista con un autor: Eric J. Guignard

    Eric J. Guignard es escritor y editor de ficción oscura y especulativa, y trabaja desde las sombrías afueras de Los Ángeles, donde también dirige la pequeña editorial Dark Moon Books. Ha ganado dos…

  • Author Alix E Harrow and her latest book, Spindle Splintered

    Entrevista con una autora: Alix E. Harrow

    Alix E. Harrow, exacadémica y profesora adjunta, es una escritora ganadora del premio Hugo que reside en Virginia con su esposo y sus dos hijos, que viven en la naturaleza. Es autora de "Las diez mil…

  • Selected novels by Simon R. Green

    Entrevista con un autor: Simon R. Green

    Simon R. Green es el autor más vendido del New York Times, con más de sesenta novelas de ciencia ficción, fantasía y misterio. Simon vendió su primer libro en 1988 y al año siguiente recibió el…

  • Author Cadwell Turnwell and his latest novel, No Gods, No Monsters

    Entrevista con un autor: Cadwell Turnbull

    Cadwell Turnbull se graduó de la Maestría en Escritura Creativa de Ficción y de la Maestría en Lingüística Inglesa de la Universidad Estatal de Carolina del Norte. Turnbull también se graduó de…

  • Author Sara Nisha Adams and her debut novel, The Reading List

    Entrevista con una autora: Sara Nisha Adams

    Sara Nisha Adams es escritora y editora. Vive en Londres y nació en Hertfordshire, de padres indios e ingleses. Su primera novela, "La lista de lectura", está inspirada en parte por su abuelo, quien…

  • Author Catherynne M. Valente and her latest book, The Past is Red

    Entrevista con una autora: Catherynne M. Valente

    Catherynne M. Valente es autora bestseller del New York Times, con más de dos docenas de obras de ficción y poesía, entre las que se incluyen Palimpsest, la serie Orphan's Tales, Deathless, Radiance y…


Reviews by Daryl M.

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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...