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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Cynthia Hand and her latest novel, The How and The Why

    Entrevista con una autora: Cynthia Hand

    Cynthia Hand es autora de varios libros para adolescentes, éxitos de ventas del New York Times, incluyendo la trilogía Unearthly, The Afterlife of Holly Chase, The Last Time We Say Goodbye y My Lady…

  • Peter Swanson and his latest book, Eight Perfect Murders

    Entrevista con un autor: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson es autor de seis novelas, entre ellas The Kind Worth Killing, ganadora del premio New England Society Book Award y finalista del CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger y Her Every Fear, libro del…

  • Author Sarah Gailey

    Entrevista con una autora: Sarah Gailey

    Sarah Gailey saltó a la fama en 2015 y, desde entonces, se ha convertido en una de las voces más agudas y divertidas de la cultura pop online. Colabora habitualmente en varios sitios web, incluyendo…

  • Luke Geddes and his debut novel, Heart of Junk

    Entrevista con un autor: Luke Geddes

    Luke Geddes es originario de Appleton, Wisconsin, y actualmente reside en Cincinnati, Ohio. Tiene un doctorado en literatura comparada y escritura creativa por la Universidad de Cincinnati. Es autor…

  • Ryan La Sala and his debut novel, Reverie

    Entrevista con un autor: Ryan La Sala

    Ryan La Sala creció en Connecticut, pero solo físicamente. Mentalmente, pasó la mayor parte de su infancia en los mundos de Sailor Moon y Xena: La Princesa Guerrera, lo que quizás explique todos sus…

  • Chris McCormick and his latest book, The Gimmicks

    Entrevista con un autor: Chris McCormick

    Chris McCormick es autor de una colección de cuentos, Desert Boys, ganadora del Premio Stonewall del Libro en 2017. Nacido en 1987 y criado en el desierto de Mojave, California, se graduó de la…

  • Tochi Onyebuchi and his adult fiction debut novel, Riot Baby

    Entrevista con un autor: Tochi Onyebuchi

    Tochi Onyebuchi es el autor de la novela juvenil "Beasts Made of Night", ganadora del Premio Ilube Nommo a la Mejor Novela de Ficción Especulativa de un Africano, su secuela, "Crown of Thunder", y…

  • Nicholas Meyer and his latest novel, The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols

    Entrevista con un autor: Nicholas Meyer

    Nicholas Meyer es un galardonado autor, guionista y director. Su obra creativa en publicaciones, cine y televisión abarca más de cinco décadas. Su última novela es "La aventura de los protocolos…


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...