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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Paul Cornell and his book series, Witches of Lychford

    Interview With an Author: Paul Cornell

    Paul Cornell is a writer of science fiction and fantasy in prose, comics, and TV. He is one of only two people to be Hugo Award-nominated for all three media. He’s written Doctor Who for the BBC…

  • Author Michel Faber and his latest book, (A Tale of Two Worlds)

    Interview With an Author: Michel Faber

    Michel Faber has written seven other books, including the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fahrenheit Twins, and the Whitbread-short-listed novel Under the Skin. The Apple, based…

  • Author Charlie N. Holmberg and her latest book, Spellbreaker

    Interview With an Author: Charlie N. Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg is an award-winning, best-selling, and internationally published author of fantasy and romantic fiction. She was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters, who also have boy names…

  • Author P. Djèlí Clark and his latest book, Ring Shout

    Interview With an Author: P. Djèlí Clark

    Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award-winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novellas The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Born in New York and…

  • Author David Gerrold and his latest book, Hella

    Interview With an Author: David Gerrold

    David Gerrold has been writing professionally for half a century. He created the tribbles for Star Trek and the Sleestaks for Land of the Lost. His most famous novel, of the more than 50 he has…

  • Author and screenwriter, Simon Stephenson and his latest book, Set My Heart to Five

    Interview With an Author: Simon Stephenson

    Simon Stephenson is an author and screenwriter (and once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away he was a medical doctor). He is originally from Edinburgh in Scotland but currently lives in Los Angeles…

  • Freelance journalist, Stuart Turton and his latest book, The Devil and the Dark Water

    Interview With an Author: Stuart Turton

    Stuart Turton is a freelance journalist who lives in West London with his wife. Stuart is not to be trusted—in the nicest possible way. 2018’s The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was his first novel…

  • Astronomy professor, Emily Levesque and her first popular science book, The Last Stargazers

    Interview With an Author: Emily Levesque

    Emily Levesque is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington. She has observed for upward of fifty nights on many of the planet’s largest telescopes and flown over the Antarctic…

  • Author Victoria “V. E.” Schwab and her latest book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

    Interview With an Author: V.E. Schwab

    Victoria “V. E.” Schwab is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series (A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A…

  • Author Alex Pavesi and his first novel, The Eighth Detective

    Interview With an Author: Alex Pavesi

    Alex Pavesi is a former bookseller for Waterstones. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and is currently a software engineer for Microsoft in London. The Eighth Detective is his first novel and he…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for A Gentleman's Murder

    A Gentleman's Murder

    • By: Huang, Christopher.
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    In Great Britain, the years immediately following WWI were a period of great change. New technologies were finding their way into people’s everyday lives. Women began to voice their dissatisfaction with being essentially second-class citizens and unable to vote. And the men who survived serving in WWI returned to their...
  • Cover image for The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

    The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

    • By: Goss, Theodora
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Many classic horror novels, including Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and The Island of Dr. Moreau, have almost no female characters. If there is a woman included, often she is relegated to being a servant or, more often, a victim. She is rarely featured as...
  • Cover image for A Closed and Common Orbit

    A Closed and Common Orbit

    • By: Chambers, Becky,
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Published last year, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers is a breath of fresh air in the genre of science fiction. Sci-fi has long been languishing in multiple dystopian visions exploring just how wrong our world, and many others, could possibly go. A Long Way...