tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39917600039600664762024-03-14T11:04:13.772+02:00Dark Wolf's Fantasy ReviewsRamblings on bookish matters. Horror and fantasy have the lion’s share, but not exclusively. Occasional interviews, art posts and bumblings.Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.comBlogger1189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-91893371541138545162017-03-20T16:25:00.001+02:002017-03-20T16:25:43.265+02:00Dark Wolf has moved house. You can find the new one at <a href="https://darkwolfparaphernalia.wordpress.com/">Dark Wolf's Paraphernalia</a>.Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-5268561535612540612016-04-06T14:45:00.000+03:002016-04-06T14:45:08.029+03:00News from the Spanish speculative fiction<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“The Best of Spanish
Steampunk”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">,
an anthology edited and translated by <b>Marian</b>
& <b>James Womack</b>, took a first
step in bringing some of the modern Spanish short speculative fiction to the
English market and at the end of the year this attempt will be followed by two
other such projects, two anthologies of Spanish genre short stories, that due
to their successful crowdfunding campaigns are scheduled to be released around
November 2016.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Spanish Women of Wonder”</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> edited by <b>Cristina Jurado</b> and <b>Leticia Lara</b> showcases some of the best
and most talented female writers within the Spanish speaking borders. Initially
published in Spanish under the title <b>“Alucinadas”</b>
this anthology put Cristina Jurado and Leticia Lara to the difficult test of selecting
10 stories out of more than 200 received from 12 countries and these ten
stories will also be available in the English edition of the anthology together
with another from the excellent <b>Angélica
Gorodischer</b>. However, a second collection of science fiction short stories
written by women is scheduled to be released in Spain this year. <b>“Alucinadas II”</b> is edited by <b>Sara Antuña</b> and <b>Ana Díaz Eiriz</b> and features 10 new stories from other very talented
female writers in a powerful line-up that makes this second anthology as
appealing as the first is. And who knows, as it is the case with the first
collection, perhaps “Alucinadas II” would manage to find its way into the
English market as well. Fingers crossed for that to happen.</span></div>
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</span></strong><span style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; padding: 0in;">Almijara Barbero Carvajal</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Wirik Es” (Wirik Es) by Alejandra Decurgez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Las dos puertas de Tebas” (The Two Gates of
Thebes) by MA Astrid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Francine” (Francine) by María Antonia Martí
Escayol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“El ídolo de Marte” (The Idol of Mars) by Júlia
Sauleda Surís<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Seudo” (Pseudo) by Maielis González Fernández<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Informe de aprendizaje” (Learning Report) by Sofía
Rhei<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“¿Quieres jugar?” (Do You Want to Play?) by Verónica
Barrasa Ramos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“¿Acaso soy una especie de monstruo, señor
Pallcker?” (Am I Some Kind of Monster, Mister Pallcker?) by Laura Fernández<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“Cuestión de tiempo” (A Matter of Time) by
Susana Vallejo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Castles in Spain”</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> is the second project soon
to be available in English. This time, the anthology edited by <b>Mariano Villarreal</b> and translated by <b>Sue Burke</b>, who also is behind the
translation of “Spanish Women of Wonder”, aims to bring into the attention of
the English speaking readers some of the best works of speculative fiction
published recently in Spanish. Some of the stories have won prestigious awards,
others garnered popularity, but all them offer a chance to taste a sample of
what Spanish genre has best. “Castles in Spain” is scheduled to be released in
English only at the end of the year, but for now we can admire the Spanish
edition of the anthology, “Castillos en el Aire”, that hit the market in Spain recently
and benefits from a very catchy cover. Here is the table of contents of the
collection and the 10 stories that we’ll have the pleasure to read in English
at the end of 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Star” (La estrella) by Elia
Barceló (published in 1991, winner of the Ignotus Award)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Flock” (El rebaño) by César
Mallorquí (published in 1993)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Ice Forest” (El bosque de hielo)
by Juan Miguel Aguilera (published in 1996, winner of the Alberto Magno and
Ignotus Awards)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“My Wife, My Daughter” (Mi esposa, mi
hija) by Domingo Santos (published in 1997, winner of the Ignotus Award) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“God’s Messenger” (Mensajero de dios)
by Rodolfo Martínez (published in 1997)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“In the Martian Forges” (En las fraguas
marcianas) by León Arsenal (published in 1999, winner of the Pablo Rido and
Ignotus Awards)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Marble in the Palm Tree” (La
canica en la palmera) by Rafael Marín (published in 2000, winner of the Ignotus
Award)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Albatross Ship” (La nave de los
albatros) by Félix J. Palma (published in 2002)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Sword of Fire” (La espada de
fuego) by Javier Negrete (published in 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Victim
and Executioner” (Víctima y verdugo) by Eduardo Vazquerizo (published in 2006)</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-73545705046758812532016-03-15T13:00:00.000+02:002016-03-15T13:00:10.071+02:00Table of contents - "African Monsters" edited by Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v0rxjL7mxeQ/Vufq81Ggt0I/AAAAAAAAGzs/5dvTeRduQiIKf2kOyV1RzVF1CfV0J_fow/s1600/african-monsters-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v0rxjL7mxeQ/Vufq81Ggt0I/AAAAAAAAGzs/5dvTeRduQiIKf2kOyV1RzVF1CfV0J_fow/s640/african-monsters-small.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Back
in 2014 <i><a href="http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/">Fox Spirit Books</a></i> launched an
anthology series focused on giving new life to the scary creatures haunting the
folklore, legends and myths of a certain region of the world and began this
series with <b>“European Monsters”</b>, a
collection edited by <b>Margrét Helgadóttir</b>
and <b>Jo Thomas</b>. This year we are
moving south of the European continent with the second anthology of the series,
<b>“African Monsters”</b>, edited by the
same Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas. Working with writers from or having
strong connections with some of the countries of Africa, as well as African and
European artists, “African Monsters” explores the frightening creatures of
legend stalking around Africa. As I understand, the editors were unable to fill
the anthology with 100% African talent, due to time and communication problems,
therefore this volume covers only a small part of this wondrous and fascinating
continent. But let’s not find fault into this aspect, instead let’s hope that “African
Monsters” opens the road for other similar short story collections and someday
soon we will be able to travel across the entire African continent with the
help of works of fiction twisting its myths and legends into new shapes and
forms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">If
you wish to learn more about “African Monsters” and get an insight on this
anthology you can find <a href="http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/tag/african-monsters/">several blog entries</a> on Fox Spirit Books’ website where
some of the authors shade a light on the creation process behind their stories.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“On
the Road” by Nnedi Okorafor</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Impundulu”
by Joan de la Haye</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“One
Hundred and Twenty Days of Sunlight” by Tade Thompson</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Severed”
by Jayne Bauling</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“The
Death of One” by Su Opperman</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Chikwambo”
by T.L. Huchu</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Monwor”
by Dilman Dila</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“That
Woman” by S. Lotz</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Sacrament
of Tears” by Toby Bennett</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Bush
Baby” by Chikodili Emelumadu</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“After
the Rain” by Joe Vaz</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Taraab
and Terror in Zanzibar” by Dave-Brendon de Burgh</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“A
Whisper in the Reeds” by Nerine Dorman</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Acid
Test” by Vianne Venter</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Thandiwe’s
Tokoloshe” by Nick Wood</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="text-align: start;">“A
Divided Sun” by James Bennett (writer) and Dave Johnson (artist)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-6953059070504396742016-03-02T16:00:00.000+02:002016-03-02T16:00:05.169+02:00Happy 30th Appearance to Shimmer Magazine!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">One
of my favorite magazines, <a href="http://www.shimmerzine.com/">Shimmer</a>, celebrates its 30<sup>th</sup> appearance
this month. Although I am more of a secret admirer rather than an active
supporter of this wonderful magazine, meaning that some time ago I’ve set
myself as goal reading and reviewing all of its issues only for different
things to come bumping in and preventing the achievement of this resolution, I
still find comfort and excellent reading material with each issue of Shimmer
and I’m trying to affirm that however I can. Therefore, I would not render the
said goal absolute yet, I just need to work with me more in reaching it. If I
am successful or not with my resolution remains to be seen, but I still would
very much like to wish Shimmer Magazine a happy 30<sup>th</sup> appearance and
may it reach 300 such events in the years to come!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The 30th issue contains the following stories:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Red Mask” by Jessica May Lin (<a href="http://www.shimmerzine.com/red-mask-by-jessica-may-lin/">already available online</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Blackpool” by Sarah Brooks (available online on March, 15<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Indigo Blue” by Rachael K. Jones (available online on
March, 29<sup>th</sup>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“All the Red Apples Have
Withered to Gray” by Gwendolyn Kiste (available online on April, 12<sup>th</sup>)</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-71935334371908042572016-02-26T15:30:00.000+02:002016-02-26T15:30:13.961+02:00Cover art - "The Mountain of Kept Memory" by Rachel Neumeier & "Twelve Kings of Sharakhai" by Bradley P. Beaulieu (French edition)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
cannot conceal my admiration for <b>Marc
Simonetti</b>’s talent and art, not that I am attempting such a thing. Each new
artwork and book cover born from <a href="http://art.marcsimonetti.com/">Marc Simonetti</a>’s brushes tends to lose me in
contemplation and each one manages to fascinate me in one way or another. I have
two fresh examples to keep the fire of my appreciation for the work of this
wonderful artist burn brighter, the covers for <b>Rachel Neumeier</b>’s <b>“The
Mountain of Kept Memory”</b> (coming in November from <i>Saga Press</i>) and the French edition of <b>Bradley P. Beaulieu</b>’s <b>“Twelve
Kings in Sharakhai”</b> (“Les Douze Rois de Sharakhaï” published by <i>Bragelonne</i>). Both share the same design,
one that Marc Simonetti used before, the perspective over a city. In the case
of “Twelve Kings in Sharakhai” Marc Simonetti’s artwork is similar to the US cover
only to have an ampler vision and a more encompassing perspective. On both
these covers the panorama envisioned by the artist and his playing on the light
have the effect of stirring the viewer’s curiosity and the desire to visit
these places, at least with the help of imagination until the books open further
these worlds. There is one more thing stimulating the desire to discover more
about these places, the characters. Not only do we see the cities from a distant
witness point of view, but from the way the characters are positioned on the
cover we share that vision with them too, moving us closer to the scene and
creating an initial connection with the personages. And the characters, like
the settings, remain to be discovered within the pages of the respective books.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this gorgeous fantasy in the spirit of Guy Gavriel Kay and
Robin McKinley, a prince and a princess must work together to save their
kingdom from outside invaders…and dangers within.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Long ago the Kieba, last goddess in the world, raised up her
mountain in the drylands of Carastind. Ever since then she has dwelled and
protected the world from unending plagues and danger…</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gulien Madalin, heir to the throne of Carastind, finds
himself more interested in ancient history than the tedious business of
government and watching his father rule. But Gulien suspects that his father
has offended the Kieba so seriously that she has withdrawn her protection from
the kingdom. Worse, he fears that Carastind’s enemies suspect this as well.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then he learns that he is right. And invasion is imminent.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile Gulien’s sister Oressa has focused on what’s
important: avoiding the attention of her royal father while keeping track of
all the secrets at court. But when she overhears news about the threatened
invasion, she’s shocked to discover what her father plans to give away in order
to buy peace.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">But Carastind’s enemies will not agree to peace at any price. They
intend to not only conquer the kingdom, but also cast down the Kieba and steal
her power. Now, Gulien and Oressa must decide where their most important
loyalties lie, and what price they are willing to pay to protect the Kieba,
their home, and the world.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce
and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings -- cruel,
ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite
company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the
Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert.
There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Or so it seems, until Çeda, a brave young woman from the west
end slums, defies the Kings' laws by going outside on the holy night of Beht
Zha'ir. What she learns that night sets her on a path that winds through both
the terrible truths of the Kings' mysterious history and the hidden riddles of
her own heritage. Together, these secrets could finally break the iron grip of
the Kings' power...if the nigh-omnipotent Kings don't find her first.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-44661724616964643382016-02-24T15:35:00.000+02:002016-02-24T15:35:02.100+02:00Cover art - "Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3" edited by Simon Strantzas and Michael Kelly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">When
<i>Undertow Publications</i> began to
publish a yearly collection of best weird fiction I welcomed this project with
my arms opened wide. My previous experiences with the publisher and the approached
niche of its <b>“Year’s Best Weird Fiction”</b>
made this new yearly anthology very attractive from my point of view. Now, it
can be argued that a year’s best of anything might not be the best for everyone,
but I always try to remember that such selections are subjective to the editor’s
tastes and they’re meant to be received with an opened mind. As it is meant for
the genre within such projects lie. Because, after all, there is only one true
category that matters in the end, that of good fiction, the one that helps us
expand our horizons despite the genre in which we would like to catalogue it. Although
“Year’s Best Weird Fiction” has only two volumes released so far it is a
project I would certainly like to see filling my bookshelves for many years to
come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">True,
I liked some stories more than others, from my personal perspective I
questioned a couple of selections, but like I’ve already said I accept
completely the editor’s tastes and choices. And it is exactly here where this
year’s best anthology scored good points, each year <b>Michael Kelly</b>, the series editor, works on this collection together
with a different guest editor, the first was <b>Laird Barron</b>, the second <b>Kathe
Koja</b>, this year <b>Simon Strantzas</b>
and the next <b>Helen Marshall</b>. Such an
approach makes me expect the unexpected, each volume offers something different
from the others. There are other wonderful year’s best collections out there
and although I love what their editors did with the entire series I feel that,
more or less, a pattern surfaces over time. Nothing wrong with it, but by
working with a different editor at each volume “Year’s Best Weird Fiction”
acquires a unique flavor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As
it does through the cover artworks. There is something different about each one
of them and I’ve become to anticipate the release of the next cover with excitement.
This year’s selection didn’t disappoint at all. I was familiar with <b>Beatriz Martin Vidal</b>’s art for some
time now and seeing her work <a href="http://www.undertowbooks.com/2016/02/23/cover-reveal-years-best-weird-fiction-3/">on the cover</a> of “Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume
3” brought me great joy. It shouldn’t be such a rare thing, Beatriz Martin
Vidal is a very talented artist and looking over <a href="http://beatrizmartinvidal.com/">her website</a> and <a href="http://beatrizmartinvidal.deviantart.com/">Deviantart page</a> you’ll see why. The vivid colors, the light and shadow, her imagination
are marvelous traits and because of them and not only I am mesmerized by her
art pieces. As is the case with this cover, a beautiful artwork that’s a feast
for the eyes and that is, I admit, my favorite of the three covers of “Year’s
Best Weird Fiction” so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Since
we are at it, here is also the table of contents of “Year’s Best Weird Fiction”
third volume, with the possibility of one more addition later on:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“The Strangers” by Robert Aickman</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The Strangers and Other Writings</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Rangel” by Matthew M. Bartlett</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Rangel</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Little Girls in Bone Museums”
by Sadie Bruce</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,
March/April 2015)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Violet is the Color of Your Energy” by Nadia Bulkin</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">She Walks in Shadows</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">edited by </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Fetched” by Ramsey Campbell</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Horrorology</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">edited by </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Stephen Jones, as “Nightmare”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Guest” by Brian Conn</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The Bestiary</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"> edited by AnnVanderMeer)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“The Marking” by Kristi DeMeester</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Three-lobed Burning Eye #27</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">)</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Evenson</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Aickman’s Heirs</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"> edited by Simon Strantzas)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Julie” by L.S. Johnson</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Strange Tales V</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">edited by </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Rosalie Parker)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Rabbit, Cat, Girl” by Rebecca Kuder</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">XIII: Stories of Transformation</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">edited by </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Mark Teppo)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Strange Currents” by Tim Lebbon</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Innsmouth Nightmares</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">edited by </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Lois H. Gresh)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“The Rooms Are High” by Reggie Oliver</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The Sea of Blood</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Blood” by Robert Shearman</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Seize the Night</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">edited by </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Christopher Golden)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Loveliness Like a Shadow” by Christopher Slatsky</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“Honey Moon” by D.P. Watt</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">A Soliloquy for Pan </span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">edited by</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Mark Beech)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“The Devil Under the Maison Blue” by Michael Wehunt</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">The Dark #10</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Western Railway Line” by Genevieve Valentine</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> (</span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
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Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-26791972529242162422016-02-23T15:00:00.000+02:002016-02-23T15:00:11.653+02:00Table of contents - "Defying Doomsday" edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Last
year, I had the pleasure to host a guest post, <a href="http://darkwolfsfantasyreviews.blogspot.ro/2015/04/guest-post-what-flavour-of-apocalypse.html">“What Flavour of Apocalypse”</a>, by
<b>Tsana Dolichva</b> during the
crowdfunding campaign for <b>“Defying
Doomsday”</b>, an anthology she was about to edit together with <b>Holly Kench</b>. After the success of the
said crowdfunding campaign the reading and selection process started and now we
are moving one step closer to the publication of “Defying Doomsday” as Tsana
Dolichva and Holly Kench revealed <a href="http://defyingdoomsday.twelfthplanetpress.com/announcing-our-table-of-contents/">the stories chosen</a> out of the 177 submitted tales for this apocalypse-survival anthology. “Defying Doomsday” is due to
be released by <i>Twelfth Planet Press</i>
in mid 2016.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Teens
form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A woman
faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho";"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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friends take their radio show on the road in search of plague survivors.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A man
seeks love in a fading world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How
would </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">you</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> survive the apocalypse?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Defying Doomsday</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is an anthology of apocalypse fiction
featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always
the “fittest” who survive - it’s the most tenacious, stubborn, enduring and
innovative characters who have the best chance of adapting when everything is
lost.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
stories of fear, hope and survival, this anthology gives new perspectives on
the end of the world, from authors Corinne Duyvis, Janet Edwards, Seanan
McGuire, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Stephanie Gunn, Elinor Caiman Sands, Rivqa
Rafael, Bogi Takács, John Chu, Maree Kimberley, Octavia Cade, Lauren E
Mitchell, Thoraiya Dyer, Samantha Rich, and K Evangelista.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“And the Rest of Us
Wait”</span></em><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Corinne Duyvis</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“To Take Into the Air My Quiet Breath”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Stephanie Gunn</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Something in the Rain”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Seanan McGuire</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Did We Break the End of the World?”</span></em></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> by Tansy Rayner
Roberts</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“In the Sky with Diamonds”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Elinor Caiman
Sands</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Two Somebodies Go Hunting”</span></em><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Rivqa Rafael</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Given Sufficient Desperation”</span></em></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> by Bogi Takács</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Selected Afterimages of the Fading”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by John Chu</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Five Thousand Squares”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Maree Kimberley</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Portobello Blind”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Octavia Cade</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Tea Party”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Lauren E Mitchell</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Giant”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Thoraiya Dyer</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Spider-Silk, Strong as Steel”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Samantha Rich</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“No Shit” </span></em></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by K Evangelista</span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
</span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“I Will Remember You”</span></em><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">by Janet Edwards</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-67810023544856670772016-02-15T15:20:00.000+02:002016-02-15T15:20:14.001+02:002016 Ditmar Awards Preliminary Ballot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
preliminary ballot for the 2016 Ditmar Awards <a href="http://wiki.sf.org.au/2016_Ditmar_preliminary_ballot">has been released</a>. The winners
will be announced during the 2016 Australian National SF Convention, <a href="http://contact2016.com/">Contact</a>,
due to take place between March 25<sup>th</sup> and 28<sup>th </sup>at the
Hotel Jen in Brisbane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“The Dagger's Path” by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Glenda Larke (<i>Orbit</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Day Boy” by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Trent Jamieson (<i>Text
Publishing</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Graced” by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Amanda Pillar (<i>Momentum</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Lament for the Afterlife” by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Lisa L. Hannett (<i>ChiZine
Publications</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Zeroes” by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Scott Westerfeld,
Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti (<i>Simon
and Schuster</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best Novella or Novelette<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood" by
Deborah Kalin (<i>Cherry Crow Children,</i> Twelfth Planet Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"Fake Geek Girl" by Tansy Rayner Roberts (<i>Review
of Australian Fiction, volume 14, issue 4</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"Hot Rods" by Cat Sparks (<i>Lightspeed
Science Fiction & Fantasy 58</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Miseducation of Mara Lys" by Deborah
Kalin (<i>Cherry Crow Children,</i> Twelfth Planet Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"Of Sorrow and Such" by Angela Slatter (<i>Tor.com</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Wages of Honey" by Deborah Kalin (<i>Cherry Crow
Children,</i> Twelfth Planet Press)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best Short Story<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"2B" by Joanne Anderton (<i>Insert Title Here,</i> FableCroft
Publishing)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner" by Alan
Baxter (<i>Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2015</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"A Hedge of Yellow Roses" by Kathleen
Jennings (<i>Hear Me Roar,</i> Ticonderoga Publications)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"Look how cold my hands are" by Deborah Biancotti (<i>Cranky
Ladies of History,</i> FableCroft Publishing)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best Collected Work<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Bloodlines” edited by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Amanda Pillar (<i>Ticonderoga Publications</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Cherry Crow Children” by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Deborah Kalin (<i>Twelfth
Planet Press</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Cranky Ladies of History”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely (<i>FableCroft Publishing</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Letters to Tiptree”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> edited by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (<i>Twelfth Planet Press</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost
Stories” by</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Robert Hood (<i>IFWG
Publishing Australia</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best Artwork<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Rovina Cai, cover art for "Tom, Thom" (<i>Tor.com</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathleen Jennings, cover art for “Bloodlines” (<i>Ticonderoga Publications</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathleen Jennings, cover art and internal artwork for “Cranky Ladies of History” (<i>FableCroft Publishing</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Shauna O'Meara, cover for “The Never Never Land”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Shaun Tan, illustrations in “The
Singing Bone” (<i>Allen &
Unwin</i>)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best Fan Publication in Any Medium<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Angriest</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, Grant Watson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Coode Street Podcast</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Galactic Suburbia</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, and Tansy Rayner Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">SF Commentary</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, Bruce Gillespie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Writer and the Critic</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best Fan Writer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Tsana Dolichva, for body of work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Foz Meadows, for body of work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Ian Mond, for body of work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Alexandra Pierce for body of work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Katharine Stubbs, for body of work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Grant Watson, for body of work</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best Fan Artist<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kathleen Jennings, for body of work, including <i>Illustration
Friday</i> series<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Belinda Morris, for body of work, including <i>Belinda Illustrates</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Best New Talent<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Rivqa Rafael<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">T R Napper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">DK Mok<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Liz Barr</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism
or Review<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Letters to Tiptree</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">, edited by Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet
Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The <i>Rereading the Empire Trilogy</i> series,
Tansy Rayner Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The <i>Reviewing New Who</i> series, David
McDonald, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Tehani Wessely<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"Sara Kingdom dies at the end", Tansy Rayner
Roberts, in <i>Companion Piece</i> (Mad Norwegian Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">"SF Women of the 20th Century", Tansy Rayner
Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The <i>Squeeing over Supergirl</i> series, David McDonald, and
Tehani Wessely</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Congratulations
and good luck to all the nominees!</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-26265211641092610062016-02-03T13:30:00.000+02:002016-02-03T13:30:09.877+02:00Undertow Publications' 2016 subscription<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
admire greatly the work, dedication and innovation put together by small,
independent book publishers. I learned over time that more often than not such
publishers take me outside my safety zone, push me towards the discovery of
new, engaging fiction and talented writers. <i>Undertow
Publications</i> is one such small press, with quite an impressive body of work
that it’s not easy to ignore. Publishing and supporting mostly weird, short
fiction Undertow Publications started with the <b>“Shadows & Tall Trees”</b> magazine that saw the appearance of 6
issues, followed with <b>“Year’s Best Weird
Fiction”</b>, which will see its third volume published this year, and
anthologies or author collections of short stories such as <b>“Aickman’s Heirs”</b>, edited by <b>Simon
Strantzas</b>, and <b>V.H. Leslie</b>’s <b>“Skein and Bone”</b>. This year Undertow
Publications plans to add 4 more books to its catalogue, the already mentioned
“Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume 3”, coming on October, and three collections
of short stories, <b>Eric Schaller</b>’s <b>“Meet Me in the Middle of the Air”</b>
(scheduled for February), <b>Sunny Moraine</b>’s
<b>“Singing With all My Skin and Bone”</b>
(due to be released on June) and <b>D.P.
Watt</b>’s <b>“Almost Insentient, Almost
Divine”</b> (published on July). I must admit that I already own most of
Undertow Publications’ back catalogue, with the majority of them being read,
and that the future releases are very tempting for me. They are even more
appealing when taking into consideration the subscription offered by Undertow
Publications, pre-ordering all the 4 trade editions of these books comes with a
25% discount and that means 69$ for all the 4 volumes and the shipping,
worldwide, is included. If you are interested or want to take a further look at
this offer you can find all the details on the <a href="http://www.undertowbooks.com/2016-subscription/">Undertow Publications’ website</a>.</span></div>
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Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-62704226832961606302016-02-01T12:30:00.000+02:002016-02-01T12:30:11.720+02:002016 reading year finally under way<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2015 proved to be extremely busy, it leaned so heavily on
the busy side that it stretched thin my energy, motivation and inspiration. Sadly,
2016 wasn’t up for a good start either. Actually, if I had any quarrels with
the past year I didn’t anticipate the beginning of the new one. Still, it also
brought revitalization, dealing with some difficult situations I regained the
great pleasure of sitting down and settle on a reading, the desire of talking
about all the good books and the authors who write them. Not that I lost this
passion, but I discovered that for the past several months it dwindled. So,
although the first month of this new year didn’t bring many reasons for
optimism I find myself ready to talk again about the great world of speculative
fiction. I don’t have any specific goals in mind, for the time being I just
wish to set the wheels in motion again and detect where this path leads me. I
hope you had an excellent start of the year though and will see each other
around here as much as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-4032495781811333812015-12-23T13:05:00.000+02:002015-12-23T13:05:07.340+02:00Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’ve
struggled mightily lately for free time. Unfortunately, due to some demanding
days at work I also often found myself drained of energy and inspiration the
past couple of months. However, with the season holidays in sight I am sure
I’ll manage to regroup and keep Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews running more
smoothly next year. Until then, I hope you’ll have an awesome end of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Happy
Holidays and Happy New Year! </span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-19705487377579754472015-11-25T15:30:00.000+02:002015-11-25T15:30:04.002+02:00Cover art - "Terror Tales of the Ocean" edited by Paul Finch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Terror Tales</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> is one of my favorite
series of short story collections, these anthologies edited by <b>Paul Finch</b> and published by <i>Gray Friar Press</i> are a wonderful
combination of chilling new tales, grim legends and terrifying folklore. Soon,
the 9<sup>th</sup> volume of this series is set to be released and although I
am not in the possession of the full table of contents there is still the cover
artwork to work with. This time Paul Finch is venturing to the bodies of water with
<b>“Terror Tales of the Ocean”</b> in
search of frightening stories and legends and <b>Neil Williams</b>’ cover captures the atmosphere of the collection very
well. The unknown and danger lurking beneath the surface, situations that can
become unpleasant are hinted in a full display of teeth and blood. Of course,
there is more to the theme than the cover suggests, but it works for me and I
feel that it sets the mood nicely.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The rolling blue ocean.
Timeless, vast, ancient, mysterious. Where eerie voices call through the
lightless deeps, monstrous shapes skim beneath the waves, and legends tell of
sunken cities, fiendish fogs, ships steered only by dead men, and forgotten
isles where abominations lurk…</span></i></div>
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Sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The hideous curse of Palmyra
Atoll<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The doomed crew of the Flying
Dutchman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The alien creatures in the
English Channel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The giant predator of the
Mariana Trench</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And many more chilling tales
by Peter James, Adam Nevill, Stephen Laws, Lynda E. Rucker, Conrad Williams,
Robert Shearman and other award-winning masters and mistresses of the macabre.</span></i></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-19742022847458919302015-11-24T14:00:00.000+02:002015-11-24T14:00:06.609+02:00Free reading - "In Morningstar's Shadow" by Aliette de Bodard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">In
August, <b>Aliette de Bodard</b> published
her new novel, <b>“The House of Shattered
Wings”</b>, the first book in the <i>Dominion
of the Fallen</i> series, due to be followed in 2017, if I am not mistaken, by <b>“The House of Binding Thorns”</b>. Prior to
the release of “The House of Shattered Wings” Aliette de Bodard made available
a set of stories that introduced the readers to the universe of the novel, gathered
in an ebook volume, <b>“In Morningstar’s
Shadow”</b>, and offered at the time as reward in a preorder campaign of the
novel. Now, “In Morningstar’s Shadow” can be read for free and copies of this
small collection containing the stories <b>“The
Face of Heaven”</b>, <b>“Paid Debts”</b>
and <b>“What Has to Be Done”</b> are found on <a href="http://aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/novels/dominion-of-the-fallen/free-stories-in-morningstars-shadow/">Aliette de Bodard’s website </a>or at the ebook sellers of your choice.
And if you are hungry for more, there are a couple more stories set in the same
universe available, not free, but at an affordable price, <b>“Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship”</b>, <a href="http://aliettedebodard.com/bibliography/novels/dominion-of-the-fallen/of-books-and-earth-and-courtship/">published on its own</a>, and <b>“Against the Encroaching Darkness”</b>,
available in <a href="http://grimdarkmagazine.com/products/grimdark-magazine-issue-5">Grimdark Magazine, issue 5</a>.</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-83218236485155011092015-11-23T15:00:00.000+02:002015-11-23T15:00:07.452+02:002015 Aurora Awards<div style="text-align: justify;">
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in a ceremony held in Toronto, Ontario, during SFContario 6, the Canadian
Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) <a href="http://www.prixaurorawards.ca/2015-prix-aurora-award-winners/">has announced the winners</a> of
2015 Aurora Awards.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“A Play of Shadow” by Julie
E. Czerneda (DAW Books</span>)</span></div>
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YA Nove</span></strong><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">l (tie)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="text-align: start;">“Out of
This World” by Charles de Lint (Razorbill Canada</span>)</span></span></div>
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Tesseracts Eighteen, EDGE</span>)</div>
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winners!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-30582093717326818152015-11-18T13:30:00.000+02:002015-11-18T13:30:15.296+02:00Title spotlight - "Fellside" by M.R. Carey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Christmas
comes early for me this year in the form of the recently announced new novel by
<b>Mike Carey</b>. I now it’s still too
early to talk about Christmas gifts, I am not the one to enjoy all the holiday
decorations already popping out around the local shops or the TV commercials
dressed in season clothes, but the news of M.R. Carey’s <b>“Fellside”</b> are as good as a Christmas present for me. Over the past
several years Mike Carey’s books have easily become a reading priority for me.
Starting with the Felix Castor novels, part of a series that changed my
preconceived view of urban fantasy, followed by <b>“The Steel Seraglio/The City of Silk and Steel”</b> and <b>“The House of War and Witness”</b>, two
novels written together with his wife and daughter, Linda and Louise, that are
one more beautiful than the other, and ending with <b>“The Girl With All the Gifts”</b>, written under the already mentioned
penname M.R. Carey, an engaging and thrilling book that kept me breathless (not
through all its length mind you, otherwise I would be dead right now, but you
get my meaning), these are the kind of books I count among my favorites. As a
matter of fact, I would find it very difficult to name just one of Mike Carey’s
novels as my favorite without referring to all the others. Next year, on April,
Orbit Books will release another, “Fellside”, which by the first look stands
proud next to the others. We have little to go by so far, a small synopsis, the
unremarkable cover (but you could sell me a Mike Carey’s book even without one)
and the first two pages of the novel <a href="http://io9.com/heres-your-first-look-at-the-next-fantastic-novel-from-1742141247">available on io9</a>, but it is enough for me
to jump with joy at the thought of reading “Fellside” next year.</span></div>
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edge of the Yorkshire Moors. It’s not the kind of place you’d want to end up.
But it’s where Jess Moulson could be spending the rest of her life.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she listen?</span></em></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-8243007116582565852015-11-12T13:00:00.000+02:002015-11-12T13:04:10.862+02:00Giveaway - "Dust and Desire" by Conrad Williams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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in 2010 <b>Conrad Williams</b>, one of the
favorite writers around this blog, took a plunge into crime fiction with <b>“Blonde on a Stick”</b>, a novel published
by Max Crime. This year, Conrad Williams’ “Blonde on a Stick” is revamped and
saw the light of print again last week under the title <b>“Dust and Desire”</b>, published by Titan Books. Even more, “Dust and
Desire” will be followed next year by <b>“Sonata
of the Dead”</b> in what has become the Joel Sorrell series. But without
getting ahead of myself, first things first, if you fancy a copy of Conrad
Williams’ “Dust and Desire” you have a chance of grabbing one of the ten free
copies offered through <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/161644-dust-and-desire-a-joel-sorrell-thriller">a contest on Goodreads</a>. The giveaway is open to the US
and UK residents and ends on November, 18<sup>th</sup>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Four-Year-Old, an extraordinary killer, has
arrived in London, hell-bent on destruction… PI Joel Sorrell is approached by
the mysterious Kara Geenan, who is desperate to find her missing brother. Joel
takes on the case but almost immediately, an attempt is made on his life. The
body count increases. And then Kara vanishes too… as those close to Joel are
sucked into his nightmare, he realizes he must track down the killer if he is
to halt a grisly masterplan – even if it means sacrificing his own life.</span></i></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-78794991203201441722015-11-09T16:00:00.000+02:002015-11-09T16:00:12.577+02:002015 World Fantasy Awards<div style="text-align: justify;">
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past week-end, during the World Fantasy Convention 2015, held in Saratoga
Springs, NY, the winners of 2015 World Fantasy Awards <a href="http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/">have been announced</a>.</span></div>
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Mitchell (<i>Random House/Sceptre UK</i>)</span></div>
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by Daryl Gregory (<i>Tachyon Publications</i>)</span></div>
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STORY</span></b></div>
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Monsters?” by Scott Nicolay (<i>Fedogan
& Bremer</i>)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ANTHOLOGY</span></b></div>
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Anthology of Beastly Tales” edited by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant (<i>Candlewick Press</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Gifts for the One Who Comes After” by Hellen Marshall (<i>ChiZine Publications</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Other Recountings” by Angela Slatter (<i>Tartarus
Press</i>)</span></div>
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AWARD – PROFFESIONAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Alexander Savory, for ChiZine Publications</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ray B. Russell and Rosalie
Parker, for Tartarus Press</span></div>
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Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-6273502670961404612015-11-05T14:00:00.000+02:002015-11-05T14:00:04.166+02:002015 Premios Nocte<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The past week-end, during the Madrid Gothic Week (<a href="http://www.semanagoticademadrid.com/?lang=en">Semana Gótica de Madrid</a>), in a ceremony held at the National Museum of Romanticism in Madrid,
the Spanish Horror Writers Association (<a href="http://www.nocte.es/blog2/en/bienvenidos-a-nocte/">Asociación Española de Autores de Narrativa de Terror</a>) has announced the winners of 2015 Premios Nocte:</span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">BEST NATIONAL
NOVEL</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Extraños eons” (<i>Strange
Eons</i>) by Emilio Bueso (<i>Valdemar</i>)</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“<i>Strange Eons</i> is
the most intelligent and original input of the lovecraftian mythology of the
past decades: a remarkable combination of Pasolini, Mahfuz, Lynch and Cthulhu
Mythos, for the new and dark millennium.”</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesús
Palacios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cairo’s the City of the Dead is not an ordinary district, but
the largest cemetery of the planet, a monumental ocean of bones where five
abandoned children live and where an emissary of some of the most ancient
forces, older than humans, the sand of the desert and the capricious orbits
tracing the stars in their cycles of madness settle.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the story of a plan to obliterate the world, of a
silver key hidden in a tomb in Barcelona, of a car trip to the limits of
sanity… and of five wretches who intend to frustrate the designs of chaos’
first motor, the antithesis of creation, the foolish sultan of demons, that
groans, gnaws and drools in the center of the final emptiness.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Strange Eons<i> is an audacious twist of the core of
Cthulhu Mythos. With a severe language and a vibrant pulse with which he used
us already, Emilio Bueso is exceeding a perverse story that proves why he has
converted into the writer to called to revolutionize the Spanish horror
literature.</i></span></span></span></div>
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Fish</i>) by David Jasso (<i>Donde reside el horror</i>, Edge Entertainment)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ANTHOLOGY</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">‘‘El manjar inmundo”
(<i>The Unclean Dish</i>) by Javier Quevedo Puchal (<i>Punto en boca</i>)</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Urban hunters after the most coveted prey. A strange tower
without doors. Old obsessions over lost beauty. Familiar demons locked in the
attic. The heart of a witch buried under a rosebush. Nights of black veils like
crepes… Javier Quevedo Puchal, winner of the Nocte Award, presents with The
Unclean Dish a fascinating anthology of gothic short stories inspired by tales
of classic fairies, from the Grimm Brothers to Andersen and Perrault. Thirteen
amazing deconstructions of the stories with which everybody grew up. Thirteen
disturbing narrations that reflect on our darker side, but also on those
weaknesses making us more human. The Unclean Dish is, in the end, the perfect
feast for tasting, like an excellent red wine. With spaced sips. Without hurry.
The same as those stories of our childhood that we read each night before
sleeping at the lamp’s light.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Javier
Quevedo Puchal reshapes the classic fairy tales archetype extracting from his predecessors
the most corrupt sap, hidden in the deepest layers. Starting with the essence
of perversion, reshapes the proposed for adorning his stories with a grotesque
beauty, packs them with evocative images that end imprinted in the reader’s
subconscious.”</span></i></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Darío Vilas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“In </span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Unclean Dish<i>, Javier Quevedo Puchal serves us a menu
that we believe is familiar and appearing now darkly dressed in exotic touches.
Like a sumptuous literary feast, it is best to read these stories slowly,
savoring them; basking in their flavor together with a glass of good wine. One
more thing, future diners: go without the coffee at the end. The splendid
stories that form </i>The Unclean Dish<i>
keep us up the great part of the night without further stimulants. It’s a
friendly advice. You’ll thank me.”</i></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> Toni Hill</span></span></span></div>
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by Joe Hill (Suma de letras)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
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otro mundo” (<i>That Bus is Another World</i>) by Stephen King (published in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Esquire España</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>magazine)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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for 40 years of working with the horror genre</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-74900786002211037302015-10-22T13:00:00.000+03:002015-10-22T13:00:06.899+03:00Title spotlight - "Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron Warren"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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am always thrilled when a new book by a favorite author is being published,
even if it is a reprint or a new collection gathering familiar stories. I am
also perfectly aware that even though I would love to see new fiction from my
favorite writers coming out each year it is not always possible, there are
plenty of things required by such new stories, among them the author’s personal
life and inspiration playing very important roles. But since I can always go
back to the works that made a writer a personal favorite I am willing to wait
patiently for the next book no matter when it comes. <b>Kaaron Warren</b> falls into this category, I am already eager to garb
her new short story or novel whenever they will be available, but until then I
still have her collections and novels to keep me company. And all those are
joined now by another, Cemetery Dance released on June one of their titles
spotlighting short fiction, <b>“Cemetery
Dance Select: Kaaron Warren”</b>. Five stories previously published are
gathered in this volume sampling Kaaron Warren’s exceptional talent. So, if,
like me, you wish to revisit some of Kaaron Warren’s short fiction or you wish
to discover another excellent writer give “Cemetery Dance Select: Kaaron
Warren” a chance. I am certain you’ll not regret it.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">“The Blue Stream”</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (originally
published in Aurealis Magazine, No. 14, 1994 – nominated for the 1995 Aurealis
Award, Best Fantasy Short Story)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">“A Positive”</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (originally
published in Bloodsongs Magazine, No. 10, 1998 – winner of the 1998 Aurealis
Award, Best Horror Short Story)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">“State of
Oblivion”</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (originally published in “Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible
Places”, 2003 – nominated for the 2003 Aurealis Award, Best Science Fiction
Story)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">“All You Can Do
is Breathe”</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (originally published in “Blood and Other Cravings”, 2011 –
nominated for the 2012 Ditmar Award, Best Short Story & the 2011 Stoker
Award, Best Short Story)</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Air, Water and the Grove”</span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> (originally published in “The Lowest Heaven”, 2013 – winner of the 2013
Aurealis Award, Best Science Fiction Story & nominated for the 2014 Ditmar
Award, Best Short Story)</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-19998891283067595722015-10-15T13:15:00.000+03:002015-10-15T13:15:05.423+03:00More K.J. Parker fiction coming next year<div style="text-align: justify;">
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revealing his secret identity <b>K.J.
Parker</b> is hard at work in bringing more of his excellent fiction. This year
saw the publication of two novels, one in limited edition, <b>“Savages”</b>, and one in a serialization ongoing still, <b>“The Two of Swords”</b>, plus the recently
released novella <b>“The Last Witness”</b>.
But this is not all, there are more such K.J. Parker goodies looming on the
horizon with two other novellas scheduled to be released next year. <b>“The Devil You Know”</b> comes from Tor.com
on March 2016 while “Downfall of the Gods” is published by Subterranean Press
on April 2016 and I must admit that both sound as exciting and promising as I
was used to expect from the pen of K.J. Parker. For certain, next spring I’ll
be digging deep within the pages of these two novellas.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
greatest philosopher of all time is offering to sell his soul to the Devil. All
he wants is twenty more years to complete his life’s work. After that, he
really doesn’t care.</span></i></div>
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the assistant demon assigned to the case has his suspicions, because the
philosopher is Saloninus–the greatest philosopher, yes, but also the greatest
liar, trickster and cheat the world has yet known; the sort of man even the
Father of Lies can’t trust.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
you visit the Temple and ask nicely for forgiveness, you might get it—assuming
you aren’t Lord Archias and you haven’t killed the Goddess’s favorite musician,
Lysippus. But even goddesses are expected to follow certain rules, and as much
as she wants to punish Lord Archias it seems her troublesome, all-powerful
father forbids it. So the Goddess will just have to get around that by
forgiving Lord Archias if he can manage some simple—or, rather, seemingly
impossible—tasks. A Goddess has to do what a goddess has to do.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And
in World Fantasy Award winner K.J. Parker’s sharply inventive new novella<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><em style="font-stretch: inherit; text-align: start;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; padding: 0in;">Downfall
of the Gods</span></em><span style="text-align: start;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">that
means everything from soothing supernatural egos to accompanying the
argumentative Lord Archias on an epic quest to save his soul…and get her own
way. As the Goddess and her mortal charge make their way across the world to
the Land of the Dead, a host of divine surprises await them. Could what they
find at the end be the downfall of the gods themselves? Only time will tell.
This is a story Parker fans won’t want to miss.</span></i></span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-50096831054329855912015-10-09T17:00:00.000+03:002015-10-09T17:00:09.052+03:002015 Nocte Awards nominees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
Spanish Horror Writers Association (<a href="http://www.nocte.es/blog2/">Asociación Española e Escritores de Terror</a>)
has announced the finalists of the 2015 Premios Nocte, <span style="background: white;">the award recognizing the merits of Spanish horror works published
throughout a year (plus those translated into Spanish in the respective year).
The winners of the 2015 Premios Nocte will be announced during<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>Semana Gótica de Madrid<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">(<a href="http://www.semanagoticademadrid.com/?lang=en">Madrid Gothic Week</a>) on October 30th<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in a ceremony held at The National
Museum of Romanticism in Madrid.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Extraños eons” (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Strange Eons</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">) by Emilio Bueso (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Valdemar</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">)</span></div>
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minuto antes de la oscuridad” (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">One Minute
Before the Darkness</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">) by Ismael Martínez Biurrun (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Fantascy</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">“El
Cuarto Jinete: Destrucción Masiva” (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">The Fourth
Horse Rider: Massive Destruction</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">) by Víctor Blázquez (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Dolmen</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">“Cuando
tú no estás” (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">When You’re Not Here</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">) by
Teresa Viejo (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Relatos Insólitos</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">,
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">“Los
peces” (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">The Fish</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">) by David Jasso (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Donde reside el horror</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">, Edge
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">“Plastilina”
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Guisado (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Frankenstein. Diseccionando el
mito</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">, Kelonia)</span></div>
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various writers (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Edge Entertainment</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">“Frankenstein.
Diseccionando el mito” (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Frankenstein. Dissecting
the Myth</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">) by various writers (</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">Editorial
Kelonia</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: -webkit-left;">)</span></div>
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by Stephen King (published in </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Esquire
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by Richard Matheson (Gigamesh)</span></div>
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Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-59208711271587464032015-10-08T16:00:00.000+03:002015-10-08T16:00:15.107+03:00Two volumes showcasing the best Australian speculative fiction of 2014<div style="text-align: justify;">
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is brimming with exceptional talent and there is enough evidence around to
prove it. Actually, I believe that enough is not correctly applied here,
because although it is said that too much of anything is bad I am convinced
that this statement loses its value when it comes to quality fiction.
Therefore, two newly released volumes add further proof of Australia’s finest
speculative fiction writings and plenty more excellent short stories to read, the
fifth entry in <b>“The Year’s Best
Australian Fantasy & Horror”</b> (Ticonderoga Publications) series of
anthologies edited by <b>Liz Grzyb</b> and <b>Talie Helene</b> and the third <b>“Focus: highlights of Australian short
fiction”</b> (FableCroft Publishing) compiled by <b>Tehani Wessely</b>, both collections showcasing short fiction from Down
Under published in 2014. And while we are at this point it is also interesting
to mention that FableCroft Publishing celebrates the apparition of “Focus 2014:
highlights of Australian Short fiction” by offering us the chance to grab the
first volume of this series for free. The offer is limited so if you are
interested in a copy head over to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Focus-2012-highlights-Australian-fiction-ebook/dp/B00G286SPA/">Kindle</a>, <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/focus-2012-highlights-of-australian-short-fiction">Kobo</a> or <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/382775">Smashwords</a> stores to snatch
one.</span></div>
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Kernot (<i>World War Cthulhu</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“1884” by Michael Grey (<i>Cthulhu
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Rayner Roberts <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(<i>Kaleidoscope:
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by Sean Williams <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">(<i>Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fi</i>)</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-42089269277264218602015-10-05T13:30:00.001+03:002015-10-05T13:30:08.174+03:00Hiatus over<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It
is time to shake off the dust of lazy summer days, saddle the horses and start
riding again. So starting tomorrow the longish hiatus Dark Wolf’s Fantasy
Reviews took over the last several months will be officially over.</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-72812574934459234892015-07-06T14:30:00.000+03:002015-07-06T14:30:07.834+03:00Summer hiatus<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
miss the carefree summer months of childhood and adolescence, even more so
nowadays when the heat calls for laziness rather than the extended attention
required by the increasing amount of work. But since things could be worse I’ll
not press the matter further. However, with plenty of working projects to tide
up before my vacation and with the actual summer holiday to come the blog will
be put on hold. Not for long, although it is for a period longer than the usual.
I could try to infiltrate a post or two before my weeks off the office, but I
would rather write something more consistent at my return instead of a couple
of flimsy ones now. It is a short hiatus and a regrouping at the same time. I will
return to a regular blogging schedule on September, hopefully with the
batteries fully charged. Until then, I hope you’ll all have an awesome summer!</span></div>
Mihai A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08534691063946241019noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991760003960066476.post-14735353346009989862015-07-01T15:30:00.000+03:002015-07-01T15:30:06.970+03:002015 Locus Awards<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
past week-end the winners of the 2015 Locus Awards <a href="http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/06/2015-locus-awards-winners/">have been announced</a>:</span><br />
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ADULT BOOK</span></b></div>
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a King” by</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Joe Abercrombie (Del Rey; Voyager UK)</span><br />
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NOVEL</span></b></div>
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Memory Garden” by</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Mary Rickert (Sourcebooks Landmark)</span><br />
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Kin” by</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Nancy
Kress (Tachyon)</span><br />
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Times All Over” by Joe Abercrombie (<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Rogues</span>)</span><br />
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STORY</span></b></div>
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edited by</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois (Bantam;
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Datlow</span><br />
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Picacio</span><br />
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21: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art” edited by</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> John
Fleskes (Flesk)</span><br />
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