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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Sarah Gailey and her novel, Magic For Liars

    Interview With an Author: Sarah Gailey

    Hugo award winner Sarah Gailey lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Their nonfiction has been published by Mashable and the Boston Globe, and their fiction has been published internationally…

  • Kris Waldherr and her book

    Interview With an Author: Kris Waldherr

    Kris Waldherr is an award-winning author, illustrator, and designer. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society, and her fiction has been awarded with fellowships by the Virginia Center of the…

  • Seanan McGuire and her book Middlegame

    Interview With an Author: Seanan McGuire

    Seanan McGuire is the award-winning author of the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid series, and the Wayward Children series. In addition, she writes darker fiction under the pseudonym…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, Smoke and Summons

    Interview With an Author: Charlie Holmberg

    Charlie N. Holmberg was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters, who also have boy names, in Salt Lake City, UT. She plays the ukulele, owns too many pairs of glasses, and finally adopted a dog. Her…

  • T.J. Martinson and his debut novel, The Reign of the Kingfisher

    Interview With an Author: T.J. Martinson

    T.J. Martinson grew up just outside Chicago. He received his MA in literary studies from Eastern Illinois University and is currently working toward a Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington. The…

  • Anthony Horowitz and his latest Mystery series book, The Sentence is Death.

    Interview With an Author: Anthony Horowitz

    Anthony Horowitz is a prolific journalist and writer for television and the author of both young adult and adult literature. He has been commissioned by the Doyle and Fleming estates to write new…

  • Author Yangsze Choo and her latest novel, The Night Tiger

    Interview With an Author: Yangsze Choo

    Yangsze Choo is a fourth-generation Malaysian of Chinese descent. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the author of The Ghost Bride, which is currently being adapted by Netflix into a…

  • Author Cory Doctorow and his novel Radicalized

    Interview With an Author: Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow is a co-editor of Boing Boing (an award-winning zine, blog, and directory of mostly wonderful things), a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab…

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

    Interview With an Author: Scotto Moore

    Scotto Moore is a Seattle playwright whose works include several speculative fiction themed plays. He is also the creator of the comedic web series called The Coffee Table about a couple that…


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...