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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Paul Cornell and his book series, Witches of Lychford

    Entrevista con un autor: Paul Cornell

    Paul Cornell es escritor de ciencia ficción y fantasía en prosa, cómic y televisión. Es una de las dos únicas personas nominadas al Premio Hugo en las tres disciplinas. Escribió Doctor Who para la BBC…

  • Author Michel Faber and his latest book, (A Tale of Two Worlds)

    Entrevista con un autor: Michel Faber

    Michel Faber ha escrito otros siete libros, entre ellos los aclamados El pétalo carmesí y el blanco, Los gemelos Fahrenheit y la novela Bajo la piel, preseleccionada para el premio Whitbread. La…

  • Author Charlie N. Holmberg and her latest book, Spellbreaker

    Entrevista con un autor: Charlie N. Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg es una autora de fantasía y novela romántica galardonada, superventas y publicada internacionalmente. Creció como trekkie junto a tres hermanas, que también tienen nombres de niño…

  • Author P. Djèlí Clark and his latest book, Ring Shout

    Entrevista con un autor: P. Djèlí Clark

    Phenderson Djéli Clark es el autor ganador de premios y nominado a los premios Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon y World Fantasy de las novelas cortas The Black God's Drums y The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Nacido…

  • Author David Gerrold and his latest book, Hella

    Entrevista con un autor: David Gerrold

    David Gerrold lleva medio siglo escribiendo profesionalmente. Creó a los tribbles para Star Trek y a los Sleestaks para La Tierra de los Perdidos. Su novela más famosa, de las más de 50 que ha escrito…

  • Author and screenwriter, Simon Stephenson and his latest book, Set My Heart to Five

    Entrevista con un autor: Simon Stephenson

    Simon Stephenson es autor y guionista (y una vez, en una galaxia muy, muy lejana, fue médico). Es originario de Edimburgo, Escocia, pero actualmente reside en Los Ángeles, California. Disfruta de todo…

  • Freelance journalist, Stuart Turton and his latest book, The Devil and the Dark Water

    Entrevista con un autor: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton es un periodista independiente que vive en el oeste de Londres con su esposa. No se puede confiar en Stuart, en el mejor sentido de la palabra. Las 7½ muertes de Evelyn Hardcastle (2018)…

  • Astronomy professor, Emily Levesque and her first popular science book, The Last Stargazers

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily Levesque

    Emily Levesque es profesora de astronomía en la Universidad de Washington. Ha observado durante más de cincuenta noches con muchos de los telescopios más grandes del planeta y ha sobrevolado la…

  • Author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab and her latest book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

    Entrevista con un autor: VE Schwab

    Victoria “VE” Schwab es la autora número uno en ventas del New York Times y tiene en su haber más de veinte libros, entre los que se incluyen la aclamada serie Shades of Magic (A Darker Shade of Magic…

  • Author Alex Pavesi and his first novel, The Eighth Detective

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Pavesi

    Alex Pavesi fue librero en Waterstones. Tiene un doctorado en matemáticas y actualmente trabaja como ingeniero de software en Microsoft en Londres. El Octavo Detective es su primera novela y…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Motion Picture Teller

    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...
  • Cover image for Wrong Place, Wrong Time

    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...
  • 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...