Monday, August 4th, 2008
Muse of Fire, by Dan Simmons
As the intro post stated, today I’m reviewing a Subterranean Press release. Dan Simmons is a Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, and Bram Stoker Award-winning author who spent nearly 20 years being an elementary school teacher; he has written several very large novels that are primarily science-fiction and horror. He got his start from a short-story [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Worlds of Weber: Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington and Other Stories, by David Weber
Review by DP Probably best-known for his hard-scifi series starring Honor Harrington, David Weber is a classic science fiction writer of the old school. His stories investigate the ways in which humans are changed by the technology they invent and the new experiences, decisions and possibilities opened to them by the discovery of interstellar travel, [...]
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Ubik: the Screenplay, by Philip K. Dick
I had never read anything by Philip K. Dick prior to this work, and it isn’t even actually a novel. In any case, Mr. Dick was a major force in the science fiction field prior to his death in 1982; several of his novels have been made into major motion pictures. These include Minority Report, [...]
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy, edited by William Schafer
Subterranean Press, of the lovely editions, has also been producing a magazine for a few years. Originally it was sold by the issue, but starting about a year ago, they put a version for free online. They do also produce a print edition, which usually sells out. This anthology is a collection of the best [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Moby Dick: the screenplay, by Ray Bradbury
I have never read Melville’s novel of Moby-Dick, although I did read excerpts in 11th-grade English class. I found the writing style surprisingly readable, but was put off by the length. Never mind that I’ve read books that are longer by now; it never seemed important enough for me to sit down and actually read [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Black and White, by Lewis Shiner
Subterranean Press, purveyors of such novels as this one, this one, and this one, made an announcement last week that Lewis Shiner’s new novel, Black and White, was to start shipping last weekend, so I thought a Monday review would be good timing. The Subterranean Press edition is the only edition of this book, as [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers
Tim Powers is a Californian by way of New York; he is apparently good friends with Philip K. Dick and James Blaylock. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dick’s novel that was loosely adapted into the movie Blade Runner, was dedicated to Powers. All of that I learned two minutes ago on Wikipedia. When I [...]
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
What the Mouse Found, by Charles de Lint
Recently I’ve been reviewing old favorites by Charles de Lint, but today’s entry — a collection of short stories published by Subterranean Press — is a brand-new book. So new, as a matter of fact, that it won’t be released until either May, if you look at the back of the ARC, or October, if [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Promises to Keep, by Charles de Lint
This novel is a slender volume (under 200 pages) published by Subterranean Press, a small specialty publisher that has been putting out amazing editions of de Lint’s older works and collections of his short stories. If you have never seen a Subterranean Press edition, I’d recommend finding or buying one. They’re amazing, from the full-cloth [...]