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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 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...