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Microreview [book]: Fearsome Journeys, ed. Jonathan Strahan
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. Fearsome Journeys [Solaris, 2013]The MeatSF/F anthologies often provide uneven reading experiences, particularly those that try to be all things to all people at all times....
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GUEST POST: "On the Widening Gyre in Fantasy" by Jonathan Strahan
We are proud to present our very first celebrity guest post, from the inimitable Jonathan Strahan! Jonathan is one of the foremost anthologists and editors working in SF/F today. Over the years, he has...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Despite over 12 hours of driving and over 750 miles on the road returning home from my Texas trip, Thursday Morning Superhero is delivered on time and loaded with quality titles. I think it is unfair...
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Summer Reading List: Vance
And thus begins Nerds of a Feather Summer Reading List II: Electric Boogaloo. Over the next week or so, the contributors will be weighing in with what we all plan on jamming into our brains through our...
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Giveaway: Blood and Bone by Ian Esslemont
Welcome to the first-ever nerds of a feather giveaway! The grand prize is your own personal copy of Ian Esslemont's Malazan novel Blood and Bone, a book we recently reviewed."In the western sky the...
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Summer Reading List: Jemmy
The Nerds of a Feather summer reading extravaganza continues! I know, I know... In this era of whistleblowers, fears of government intrusion on our daily lives, and in an increasingly problematic and...
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GUEST POST: Stories Outside History by Daniel Abraham
We are proud to present a guest post by fantasy and science fiction author Daniel Abraham! Regular readers of this blog are doubtlessly familiar with our reviews of Daniel's work, most recently the...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
Scott Snyder may be having one of the best weeks in comics ever. He debuted the new DC title Superman Unchained, began a new arc in Batman that explores his origin and examines the time he spent away...
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Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
Live Arcade ThieveryMonaco is a throwback to the tabletop games of old. It takes a top-down view in the same vein as the classics of the eighties, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Centipede. I can still...
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AiIP Review: Planks, by S.C. Harrison
Way back when, in my very first column in this space, I interviewed S.C. Harrison, and she has a new release out- A short horror work called Planks. I am going to take this opportunity to review it for...
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Summer Reading List: Philippe
I suppose that while I was growing up, sci-fi and fantasy were similar to heavy metal. In high school, I self-identified as a punk (though I dressed like a skater, being a skater and all) and in those...
View ArticleBLOOD AND BONE Giveaway Winner
Congratulations to Bibliotropic! Your copy of Blood and Bone is on the way to you as we speak.Thanks to everyone who entered. Stay tuned for more giveaways in the future!
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Microreview [book]: Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts [Tor, 2012]The MeatI have to start with a mea culpa: I wrote the bulk of this review more than a month ago. I've left it languishing since then, for the simple reason...
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Thursday Morning Superhero
San Diego Comic Con is less than a month away, but the news that has me pumped up is that Locke and Key has been optioned by Universal! Read all about it here. So happy for Joe Hill and Gabriel...
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Summer Reading List: Zhaoyun
Zhaoyun's Dark yet Fantastical Summer Reading List!As I huddle directly under the air conditioner trying to stave off heat stroke this summer, my thoughts have turned, unsurprisingly, to humanity's...
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Summer Reading List: The G
This is the last of our summer reading series. Like the others, I fully intend to read all of these. Like the others, I may not. However, I have each in my possession (thanks, publisher friends) and...
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Microreview [film]: The Foreigner
The then-brand-new World Trade Center.The MeatThe Foreigner is a movie so obscure it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. Not even a stub. Shot in New York in 1978 by a handful of people with seemingly...
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Microreview [book]: Microreview [book]: The Unreal and the Real: Selected...
The Meat As I ranted at some length in my review of book one of this two-volume collection of LeGuin's short stories, anthologies are suspect for all sorts of reasons, and when I read this volume, I...
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Richard Matheson, Rest in Peace. (1926-2013)
On Sunday, June 23, we lost a titan when Richard Matheson passed at the age of 87. When we lost Ray Bradbury, I wrote a piece memorializing him, so to not do so for Matheson would be a dereliction of...
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Microreview [book]: Point and Shoot by Duane Swierczynski
Duane Swierczynski, Point and Shoot [Mulholland Books, 2013]The MeatBook reviewers (hobbyists, at least) have it made. We read and comment on books we love [books that we would have probably read and...
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