Category: Dark Fantasy

Teaser Tuesday 5/1/2018: “Death Warmed Over”

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This week I’m reading Death Warmed Over, by Kevin J. Anderson:

Gun, With Occasional Zombie

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Teaser Tuesday 4/24/2018: “The Vagrant”

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This week I was reading The Vagrant, by Peter Newman, in which Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg, Tom Selleck, and a baby wander through a post-apocalyptic wasteland that―oh, wait, sorry, that was Three Men and a Baby. No, in The Vagrant, there’s just one man, a baby, and a goat. And, eventually, a few hangers-on. They are definitely wandering through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, though.

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Just me and my shadow, walkin’ down the avenue.

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Teaser Tuesday 4/17/2018: “Please Pass the Guilt”

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This week I was reading Please Pass the Guilt, another (gasp!) dead tree book, and the next to last in the proper Nero Wolfe canon. (I’ll just pretend that the Nero Wolfe books written by authors who aren’t named Rex Stout don’t exist, in much the same way I pretend that the “Matrix” film series consists of only one movie.)

 

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“Boom, baby, boom! I’m the Evil Midnight Bomber what Bombs at Midnight!”

 

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Teaser Tuesday 4/10/2018: “The Darkest Part of the Forest”

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This week, having finished with Alice, I have moved on to another quasi-fairy (or is that faerie?) tale, The Darkest Part of the Forest, by Holly Black, of Coldest Girl in Coldtown fame.

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Just spread your wings my little butterfly

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Teaser Tuesday 4/3/18: “Alice”

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This week, having finally finished off all those dystopian stories, I have moved on to something based on Lewis Carroll’s famous stories about Wonderland: Alice, by Christina Henry. No doubt this will be cheerful and wacky, eh?

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Then again, maybe not.

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Teaser Tuesday 3/27/2018: “The Father Hunt”

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So this week I’m still reading Brave New Worlds, but I’m also re-reading The Father Hunt, by Rex Stout. And since most of the stories in Brave New Worlds have been firmly on the “meh” side (it was heavily front-loaded with the better ones), I decided I would do something highly unusual and feature a print book Teaser Tuesday this week.

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Teaser Tuesday 3/20/18: “Brave New Worlds”

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So this week I’m reading Brave New Worlds, an anthology of dystopian-set short stories. Because, you know, real life isn’t depressing enough these days.

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Not A Review Of “Spring”

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This past week we watched “Spring”, a low-budget indie film that we got as a disc from Netflix.

 

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Take a walk on the wild side

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Teaser Tuesday 3/6/18: “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”

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So this week I’m reading, for, somehow, the first time ever, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams, of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame. (Yes, I did read HGttG, which made me laugh. And I read Last Chance to See, which also made me laugh, but made me sad at the same time. So that was confusing. Perhaps I needed a few decades to recover.)

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What has it got in its pocketses?

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Teaser Tuesday 2/27/18: “The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser”

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So this week I am, as I predicted a few weeks back I would be, still reading The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, by Fritz Leiber.

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