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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.

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    Out of Character

    • By: Albert, Annabeth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In last year’s Conventionally Yours, Annabeth Albert took readers on a virtual roadtrip, while the country was in lockdown, so that they could join tabletop gamers Alden, Conrad, and Jasper as they made their way from New England to Las Vegas for Massive Odyssey Con West, the annual national gathering...
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    The Final Girl Support Group

    • By: Hendrix, Grady
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Any fan of horror movies knows what the term “final girl” means. A final girl is the person left standing at the end of a horror movie. During the course of the film, she evades the threat, usually losing several friends and family members in the process, long enough to...
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    Razorblade Tears

    • By: Cosby, S. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Two young men, who are deeply in love, married, and fathers to a young girl. Two fathers, who cannot accept their sons as they are nor the life they are creating. Two senseless murders that remove any possibility of reconciliation or the chance to say what should have been said...
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    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    • By: Chambers, Becky
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Centuries ago, on the moon of Panga, the robot workers, who filled the factories and other industrial pursuits of the human civilization, gained consciousness. Rather than be integrated into Pangan culture, as they were offered, the robots chose to leave, en-masse, into the surrounding wilderness. They were never heard from...
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    The Album of Dr. Moreau

    • By: Gregory, Daryl
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau was H.G. Wells’ third novel and was first published in 1896. It recounts the experiences of a shipwreck victim who finds himself on an island populated by animals that have been modified by the titular Dr. Moreau, using scientific means, to become human/animal hybrids who...
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    Mother May I

    • By: Jackson, Joshilyn
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It happens in an instant. While Bree Cabbat watches her eldest daughter rehearse a school production of Grease, her infant son, Robert, sleeps in the seat next to her in the balcony of the school’s theatre. One moment he is there, the next he is gone. In his place is...
  • Cover image for A Master of Djinn

    A Master of Djinn

    • By: Clark, P. Djèli
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Cairo in the 1870’s, an inventor and investigator of mysticism named al-Jahiz made a literal breakthrough unlike any other. He pierced the boundaries between our world and other worlds, allowing magic to bleed into ours. In the process, al-Jahiz was lost to another dimension before the rupture between worlds...
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    The Dictionary of Lost Words

    • By: Williams, Pip
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...
  • Cover image for Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder

    • By: Willberg, T. A.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Imagine the following:  A chilling murder, a secret detective agency with offices located in a myriad of tunnels located beneath London, and a young apprentice determined to find the killer in order to clear one of her closest friends of the murder. In her debut novel, which is the beginning...
  • 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...