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