More Awesome NES Music
After the WE RANK 'EM, some notable readers argued for the inclusion of their favorite game songs. Here are a few of them:1. Mega Man 2: Opening Theme (from Scott Lynch, author of The Republic of...
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Microreview [book] : End of the Road : An Anthology of Original ShortStories,...
Various authors, The End of the Road : An Anthology of Original Short Stories [Solaris Books, 2013]The Meat:Many short story collections search for connections, loose ties, to justify the odds-and-sods...
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Draft 2014 Hugo Ballot
The Hugos suck! There, I said it. Well, not all the Hugo categories suck--the one for Best Short Story is often good. But, as Aidan Moher and Justin Landon have explained in detail, the marquee...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Another great week of comics featuring an impressive debut from none other than Alyssa Milano! Throw in an epic conclusion to All out War and sprinkle in some Mind MGMT just for fun and this is one...
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Microreview [crime fiction]: The Heroin Chronicles
The Heroin ChroniclesEdited by Jerry StahlAkashic BooksThe MeatI suppose it’s the needle. I have been pondering the allure of heroin in fiction. From The Man with the Golden Arm to the most recent...
View ArticleAiIP: Is Self-Publishing Worth It?
It's not as if that is a particularly novel question. In fact, I would wager that nearly every person who has completed a manuscript in the last decade or so has puzzled over that very question. For...
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Microreview [book]: A Darkling Sea by James L. Cambias
Item: Cambias, James L. A Darkling Sea [Tor, 2014]File under: science fiction, anthopological.Buy:Print or Download for Kindle. At some point during the transition to adulthood, I realized that...
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Microreview [book]: Traitor's Blade, by Sebastien De Castell
De Castell, Sebastien. Traitor's Blade. Jo Fletcher Books, March 2014The Meat When you're making a sandwich, I think you'll agree that it's important to ensure relatively consistent quality among all...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
What a week of nerd rage. The good folks at SDCC announced that the badge system was going to be essentially a lottery and Gen Con had some hotel booking issues that left people high and dry. If you...
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Call of Duty: Ghosts - Multiplayer
Call of Duty: Ghosts [Infiniti Ward, Activision, 2013]Another One? How many of these are they going to make?Yes, it's another Call of Duty game. I know it seems like every time you turn around there's...
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A Modest Proposal for Hugo Reform
Not long ago, I wrote my Hugo draft ballot, further letting it be known that this Hugo skeptic would be voting in 2014. But in both the drafting process and subsequent conversations, it came to my...
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Microreview [book]: Europe in Autumn by Dave Hutchinson
Item: Hutchinson, Dave. Europe in Autumn [Solaris, 2014]File under: science fiction, dystopia, spy thrillerBuy:Print or KindleThe MeatThis is yet another superbly-realised sci-fi novel from Solaris;...
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A Tale of Two Solarises...or, Solarii?
In 1972, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky released a nearly three-hour long film adaptation of Stanislav Lem's sci-fi novel Solaris. It is almost universally regarded as a masterpiece, and played...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Looks like the first week of February is going to be a memorable one. The polar vortex continues and I am ever thankful that ComiXology can pull through when it isn't safe to drive to the LCS. My...
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Microreview [book]: Night of the Furies
Taylor, J.M., Night of the Furies [New Pulp Press, 2013]File under: pulp Buy or Download for KindleThe MeatNight of the Furiesreminds you often that it is a tragedy, a Greek one at that. Though I...
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GIVEAWAY: Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgens
In order to celebrate the launch of Peter Higgens' new novel, Truth and Fear, the good folks at Orbit are providing five (five!) copies of his debut, Wolfhound Century, to lucky NoaF readers in the...
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Microreview [book]: Knife-Sworn, book two of the Tower and Knife trilogy, by...
Williams, Mazarkis. Knife-Sworn. Jo Fletcher Books, 2012BuyThe MeatLet's talk about the sequel paradox. What is the sequel paradox, you might ask? It's the catch-22 at the heart of the entire...
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Microreview [book]: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
Burke, James Lee. Cimarron Rose [Hyperion, 1997]File under: crime, thrillersIf you'll recall, I found James Lee Burke's Bitterroot to be a distinctly well-written and atmospheric crime novel, so much...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Welcome to another installment of Thursday Morning Superhero. Well the good folks at Epic Registration and San Diego Comic Con debuted the preregistration lottery and it seemed to work out quite well....
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Forza Motorsport 5
Forza Motorsport 5 [Turn 10, Microsoft Studios, 2013]I did a short blurb about Forza Motorsport 5 in my Xbox One post, but I've enjoyed the game so much I felt it deserved its own review. Forza is one...
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