Thanks to BBC America, Connect the Pop has three of the just-released-today Blu-rays to give away…
Blu-ray Giveaway: Doctor Who Series 7 (Part One)
By on November 13, 2012
Blu-ray Giveaway: Doctor Who Series 7 (Part One)
By on November 13, 2012
A Confusion of Princes (or, Khemri’s Clearly Excellent Adventure)
By on October 25, 2012
A Confusion of Princes, Garth Nix
Harper, May 2012
Reviewed from ARC
Let’s go back in time for a moment, to the heady golden days of science fiction as the place where sweeping stories examine the nature of humanity and also contain explosions and cool tech.
Are you with me?
Because A Confusion of Princes is a throwback in the [...]
A Confusion of Princes (or, Khemri’s Clearly Excellent Adventure)
By on October 25, 2012
A Confusion of Princes, Garth Nix
Harper, May 2012
Reviewed from ARC
Let’s go back in time for a moment, to the heady golden days of science fiction as the place where sweeping stories examine the nature of humanity and also contain explosions and cool tech.
Are you with me?
Because A Confusion of Princes is a throwback in the [...]
Review: Yesterday
By on October 25, 2012
Yesterday by C.K. Kelly Martin. Random House. 2012. Reviewed from ARC from publisher.
The Plot: 2063. Freya Kallas is sixteen, locked in her room, while something terrible happens with her brother. She struggles as she is forcibly evacuated, crying out for her brother, hating her father, wishing for her mother to do something. The Toxo is [...]
Caliban’s War
By on October 5, 2012
Caliban’s War is the second Expanse novel, following last year’s much-lauded Leviathan Wakes. In my post on Leviathan Wakes, I mentioned that James S.A. Corey is actually two people, a pseudonym for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. They also share a blog called Lizard Brain, which is where I learned that there is also an Expanse [...]
Review: Adaptation
By on September 25, 2012
Adaptation by Malinda Lo. Little, Brown. 2012. Reviewed from ARC from publisher.
The Plot: Reese and David are returning home from nationals for debate (they lost, don’t ask) when the world seems to go crazy. They are at the airport when birds begin attacking planes; a series of crashes forces the shut down of all air [...]
Review: For Darkness Shows the Stars
By on September 4, 2012
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund. Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins. 2012. Review copy from publisher.
The Plot: Elliot North, 18, has spent the last four years trying to keep her family’s estate running. It means not just making sure there is enough for herself, her father, Baron North, and her sister; [...]
Children’s Sci-fi/Fantasy Writer Josepha Sherman Dies at 65
By on August 27, 2012
Science fiction and fantasy writer Josepha Sherman died on August 23 in New Haven, CT, after a long illness, in which she battled dementia. She was 65. Sherman’s works include Gleaming Bright (Walker, 1994), a story of a resourceful young princess who goes in search of a magic box to avoid marrying a cruel king, and an adult fantasy, The Shining Falcon (Avon, 1989), a tale of love, hate, and magic that’s filled with Slavic mythology.
