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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • photo of the author Andrew Mayne on the right side, and book cover for The Naturalist on the left side. All one graphic.

    Entrevista con un autor: Andrew Mayne

    Andrew Mayne es la estrella de "No confíes en Andrew Mayne" de A&E. También es mago, novelista y presentador del podcast "Cosas raras". Empezó su primera gira mundial como ilusionista en su…

  • book cover of the clockwork dynasty and photo of the author Daniel H. Wilson

    Entrevista con un autor: Daniel H. Wilson

    Daniel H. Wilson es autor de diez novelas superventas del New York Times, entre ellas Robopocalypse. Tiene un doctorado en robótica por la Universidad Carnegie Mellon y reside en Portland, Oregón, con…

  • twilight pariah book cover and author Jeffrey Ford

    Entrevista con un autor: Jeffrey Ford

    Los cuentos y novelas de Jeffrey Ford han sido nominados en numerosas ocasiones a premios como el Premio Mundial de Fantasía, el Premio Hugo, el Premio Edgar Allan Poe y el Premio Bram Stoker. Su…

  • book cover of Tropic of Kansas and author photo of Christopher Brown

    Entrevista con un autor: Christopher Brown

    Christopher Brown ha sido nominado al Premio Mundial de Fantasía y sus relatos cortos se han publicado en diversas revistas y antologías. Reside en Austin, Texas, donde ejerce el derecho tecnológico…

  • book cover of punch escrow and author photo of Tai M. Klein

    Entrevista con un autor: Tal M. Klein

    Tal M. Klein nació en Israel, creció en Nueva York y actualmente vive en Detroit con su esposa y sus dos hijas. Cuando su hija Iris tenía cinco años, escribió un libro titulado "Soy un grupo de…

  • Theodora Gross picture and book cover for strange case of the alchemist's daughter

    Entrevista con una autora: Theodora Goss

    Theodora Goss es una autora de relatos, poesía y ensayos ganadora del Premio Mundial de Fantasía. Ha sido finalista de los Premios Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Seiun y Mythopoeic, así como de la Lista de…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for Middlegame

    Middlegame

    • By: McGuire, Seanan
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Roger Middleton is a rather typical seven-year-old boy. He lives with his adopted parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He seems to be exceptionally gifted when it comes to grammar, spelling, anything to do with languages, really. But he struggles with even the most basic levels of mathematics.Dodger Cheswich is not a...
  • Cover image for Radicalized

    Radicalized

    • By: Doctorow, Cory
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Speculative Fiction has a long history of using the tropes of the genre to comment on our world. Ursula K. Le Guin used The Left Hand of Darkness to examine cultural gender constructs. Using the original Star Trek television series, show creator Gene Roddenberry commented on issues like race relations...
  • Cover image for Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    "Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.” 'Red as Blood and White as Bone' in Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora GossTheodora Goss is an award winning-author, a professor of literature and writing at both Boston University and the Stonecoast MFA program. Her debut...
  • Cover image for The Sentence is Death

    The Sentence is Death

    • By: Horowitz, Anthony
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In 2018, readers discovered the first book in Anthony Horowitz’s new mystery series: The Word is Murder. In it, a wealthy woman enters a London funeral parlor in the morning to make her final arrangements. She is found in her home, murdered, six hours later. When disgraced Detective Inspector Daniel...
  • Cover image for The Night Tiger

    The Night Tiger

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Ji Lin is a young woman who is working as an apprentice dressmaker by day and secretly working as a “dance instructor” at a dance-hall in the evenings to repay a family debt. Ren is eleven, but tells everyone that he is thirteen. He has lost his entire family, including...
  • Cover image for Holy Lands: A Novel

    Holy Lands: A Novel

    • By: Sthers, Amanda, 1978- author, translator.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Harry Rosenmerck, a successful Jewish Cardiologist, just walked away. He walked away from his family, his career, his life, and everything he knew and loved to start a pig farm in Israel. This sounds like the set-up for a potentially insensitive joke, but it isn’t. Harry is deadly serious, as...
  • Cover image for An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    An absolutely remarkable thing : a novel

    • By: Green, Hank,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    We’ve all done it. We’ve all seen something extraordinary, glanced at it briefly, and then continued on toward our current destination, wherever that may be. We may be in a hurry, we may not. We may be alone, with someone else, or part of a group. But, regardless of our...
  • Cover image for Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    Record of a Spaceborn Few.

    • By: Chambers, Becky.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Becky Chambers has become a name to watch in Science Fiction. She published her first novel, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in 2014 after completing it via a successful Kickstarter campaign, which was later picked up by Harper Voyager and released to a much wider readership and...
  • Cover image for Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    Finding Baba Yaga : a short novel in verse

    • By: Yolen, Jane,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Jane Yolen has been working as an author for over 50 years. She has published over 300 titles, ranging from children’s books to speculative fiction (both fantasy and science fiction), and to nonfiction. She is also a poet, an instructor of writing and a reviewer of children’s literature.Jane Yolen’s books...