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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Cory Doctorow and his novel Radicalized

    Entrevista con un autor: Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow es coeditor de Boing Boing (una revista, blog y directorio de cosas maravillosas, galardonado), consultor especial de la Electronic Frontier Foundation, investigador asociado del Media…

  • Scotto Moore and his novel, Your Favorite Band Can Not Save You

    Entrevista con un autor: Scotto Moore

    Scotto Moore es un dramaturgo de Seattle cuyas obras incluyen varias obras de ficción especulativa. También es el creador de la serie cómica web The Coffee Table, sobre una pareja que descubre que su…

  • Author Brigid Kemmerer and her latest book, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

    Entrevista con una autora: Brigid Kemmerer

    Brigid Kemmerer es la autora superventas del New York Times de Más de lo que podemos contar, Cartas a los perdidos y la serie Elementales. Nació en Omaha, Nebraska, aunque sus padres la trasladaron…

  • Mallory O’Meara and her debut book, The Lady from The Black Lagoon

    Entrevista con una autora: Mallory O'Meara

    Mallory O'Meara es productora de cine y copresentadora del podcast "Reading Glasses". También es una aficionada de toda la vida al terror clásico. En su debut como autora, O'Meara revela la larga y…

  • French novelist Amanda Sthers

    Entrevista con una autora: Amanda Sthers

    Amanda Sthers nació en París y ahora reside en Los Ángeles. Es autora de diez novelas superventas, y su primera película en inglés, Madame, se estrenó en Estados Unidos en 2018. El gobierno francés la…

  • Author Marie Benedict and her latest novel, The Only Women in the Room

    Entrevista con una autora: Marie Benedict

    Marie Benedict es abogada con más de diez años de experiencia como litigante en dos de los despachos de abogados más prestigiosos del país. Se graduó con honores en Historia e Historia del Arte por el…

  • Author Arwen Elys Dayton and her latest book Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful

    Entrevista con una autora: Arwen Elys Dayton

    Arwen Elys Dayton es la autora superventas del thriller egipcio de ciencia ficción Resurrección y de la serie de futuro cercano Buscador, ambientada en Escocia y Hong Kong. Dedica meses a investigar…

  • Author Stuart Turton and his debut novel, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

    Entrevista con un autor: Stuart Turton

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


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Out of Character

    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...
  • Cover image for The Final Girl Support Group

    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...
  • Cover image for Razorblade Tears

    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...
  • Cover image for A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    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...
  • Cover image for The Album of Dr. Moreau

    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...
  • Cover image for The Dictionary of Lost Words

    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...