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I'm in the midst of what I'm terming the great migration - everything from Bibliomania is being moved over to a shiny new site with its own domain name. All new entries will be posted on http://www.twistedlibrarian.com. So update your bookmarks, and come visit me!I'll maintain links with prior exchangers - if you want to trade links, pop an email to impcardigan at gmail dot com.Be seeing you.

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Entity, E. Satifka - schitzophrenia, corporatation-hate and aliens. An early draft from a writer you should all know about within a few years.Spares, Michael Marshall Smith - Darkly compelling, Spares concerns a techno-driven near-future where science lives only to serve the whims of the wealthy. Ostensibly about the title Spares, (clones grown by the ultra-rich for spare parts and treated like

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Ocean - another story that's just familiar enough to wonder if you haven't seen it on a late night B-movie marathon. Ellis works a very Ellis cast of characters into a wry take on corporate thievery and the root of man's violence. Cinematic pencils and inking, this would translate beautifully into a movie-of-the-week.

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Promethea Vol. 5 - This last volume is bloody gorgeous. Alan Moore's archetypes story goddess ends the world in a blaze of collage, prose-poetry and alchemical magic that breaks the fourth wall and blows the room to bits. Lovely. The last issue is gallery-frameable, similar in content to Moore's Snakes and Ladders: A Diversion for Wet Afternoons.

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Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Carrie Vaughn - Talk radio and werewolves. There seems to be an explosion of werewolves in the paranormal genre lately, but this is one that's fun well-written, and clever. Some of the standard, unavoidable tropes, but there's restrained sex and violence in favor of actual plot. I'll doubtless be picking up the sequel, Kitty Goes to Washington, when it arrives.

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Moon Called, Patricia Briggs - another good were-novel; I read this earlier and seem to have forgotten a review. This novel has a female mechanic/were-coyote as the main character and is also both readable and fun without being either completely unpredictable or barely veiled porn. It says something about the subgenre that I'm so often surprised when I actually find a calorie-free book that

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The Machineries of Joy, Ray Bradbury - a Ray Bradbury short story collection containing the excellent short "Boys, Grow Giant Mushrooms in Your Basement!" It's been awhile since I read any Bradbury, although I burned through his booklist in highschool. While still well-deserving of praise, his repeat use of themes is really obvious - I'm certain I'd not read any of the collected stories, but I

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Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence , Nick Bantock - I found this used, after years of not being able to bring myself to buy it. a breathtaking pseudo-correspondance, complete with envelopes and letters, this book drew me to the Postcard X project, back when I had time to indulge in flights of fancy.

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The Labyrinth, Catherynne M. Valente - an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer should be a clue that a book is going to be good in a very strange surreal manner. Valente's novel is, like it's title, labyrinthian - also circular, transformative, and archetypal, packed with ideas equally at home in Alice in Wonderland and Greco Roman myth. Our heroine is fleeing and fated to doors, changing in color

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Uglies, Scott Westerfeld - this has gotten so much good press, I feel guilty for disliking it. You'd think a book that begins "The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit" would at least hold interest, but it quickly demonstrates itself a collage of various other popculture flash sf. Don't get me wrong - as YA sf it acquits itself well enough; it's marketed to the 6th grade + set, which

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Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous - despite occasionally making offerings at the alter of Whedon fandom, I wasn't nearly as impressed with this second trade. Though I'm not enough of a comics geek to know for certain, a lot of the layouts and conflict seemed a pastiche or homage to the style of comics Joss would have been reading as a kid. That said, the combination of Whedon and Cassidy make it

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Fantastic Four - a bold reinventing of the FF origin story as only the creator of Babylon 5 could manage. Includes sinister government agents, interstellar alien contact, the big bang, and continuing the theme of the 4 as a family unit - social workers.

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Batman: Broken City - I wasn't impressed despite a recommendation from a trusted source. I usually like dark takes on Batman, and I love 100 Bullets, but the art style and the story didn't work for me in this take on Gotham

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Day of Vengeance - a wonderfully dark battle-filled title with the Spectre and Eclipso, part of DC's Countdown to Infinite Crisis Event

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The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - my first Pratchett book (apart from Good Omens). Sweet, funny, and hugely tongue in cheek, it goes well with Mieville's King Rat, or Robert Sullivan's study Rats

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You Slay Me, Katie MacAlister - drivel, and I supposed it would probably be fun drivel at another point in my life, but it's too much generic post-modern romance novel with random wiccan elements inserted at random.

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Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith - a deliciously inventive, darkly creepy SF-horror-detective story that changes completely in the last chapter or two. Highly recommended, and already passed on to the housemate.

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Godchild V. 1 - Though it's volume one, this manga falls in the middle of an existing series that apparently encompasses Angel Sanctuary, and something called the Cain saga, neither of which I've read. It's not hard to follow though, and pretty enough - heavy goth melodrama in the grand tradition of Radcliffe and her bookstop novels.

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Catwoman, relentless - another smartly drawn Brubaker Catwoman update.

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Dorothy, V. 1 - a delicious photo/digital comic I'm really getting hooked on. The Wizard of Oz all postmodern, magical SF, and absolutely beautiful.

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Batgirl: Kicking Assassins - there's nothing really stellar in the story, but Cassandra's really the only Bat-character I actually like these days.

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Demo - 12 shorts about slightly unordinary twentysomethings and change. Highly recommended.

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The Authority: Revolution Book One - a bit of time travel, a bit of civil unrest, and a touch of Jenny Quantum. fun stuff.

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After Image, Pierce Askegren - I'm not sure I'll ever be able to give up TV tie-ins, especially since my first introduction to science fiction proper was through the Star Trek novels. This is a solid early season episode quality story. It's only flaws, really, are trying to be clever and incorporate Scooby interaction with characters that don't become integral until much later in the series.

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John Constantine, Hellblazer: Red Sepulchre - Mike Carey continues his run on the series with a solid storyarc, and some appropriately gruesome demons. I'd have liked to see more of Gemma, but the other work with prior characters is nicely done. Looking forward to the next.

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Windfall, Rachel Caine - Surprisingly, the series is holding up well in it's fourth volume. Caine pulls out a previously unknown sister to mix things up, and the Human/Djinn conflict comes to a head. A bit too much waffling with what to do about David, but on the whole, pretty satisfying, with a clear opening for a sequel.

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Tunnel Visions, Christopher Ross - wonderfully patchy nonfiction that defies a proper genre grouping. Ross roamed the world learning what he wanted and earning enough to get by with a seeming ease that I envy. Tunnel Visions is a set of numbered musings and philosophical inquiries following his training as a member of the London Underground staff. Lots of lovely epigraphs and some wonderfully

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The Nimble Man : The Menagerie #1 , Christopher Golden, Thomas E. Sniegoski - some days Amazon's recommendation feature really works. This is my first exposure to Golden outside of the Buffy novels and comics, and on the whole, I'm pretty pleased. He and Sniegoski have set up a world that's becoming pretty standard for the paranormal mystery set - vampires, demons, faeries, and other-worldly

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Batman: Under the Hood - a mysterious new anti-hero comes to Gotham following the events of War Games. The identity of the Red Hood isn't blatantly predictable, but largely unsurprising.

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Full Moon Rising , Keri Arthur - decently-plotted werewolf mystery.

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What Do You Say To A Naked Elf?, Cheryl Sterling - about as silly as you'd expect from the embarrasing title, but surprisingly readable in spite of it. Sterling hits most of the fantasy cliches, and a lot of the bad sex ones as well, but it's all obviously in fun, and never takes itself seriously.

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Trifecta (The Losers, Vol. 3) - flashback time for the Losers, as we find out just what went down on that disastrous mission..

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Double Down (The Losers, Vol. 2) - Further adventures of corporate corruption, and the search for "Max"'s identity. It ends with a remarkably prophetic quote from Lincoln on corporate control of the Republic.

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Cell, Stephen King - my second proper Stephen King, and I've actually read it relatively recent to its release date. yay. It's a zombie book, dedicated to George Romero and Richard Matheson, and while it's far from great, it's solidly good. There are some nice musings on zombie brain theory hinted at by Romero's Land of the Dead, and nods to neocyberpunk authors Neal Stephenson and Bruce

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State of War : The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration , James Risen - it seems well researched, but it probably says something about the current state of the county that I wasn't surprised at all by any of the revelations. Sometime in the last few years I've gotten from shock and outrage at the abuses of power to an awful resignation.

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Supreme Power Vol. 2: Powers and Principalities - more superhumans and dark political intrigue - looking forward to the next installment

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Inhumans Vol. 1: Culture Shock - another young X-Men vibe here, but this is a really decent working of the old 'stranger in a strange land' motif. Hints at future scheming abound, though I think the series was eventually cancelled.

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The Water Mirror , Kai Meyer, Elizabeth D. Crawford (Translator) - brilliantly immersive YA fantasy set in a magical version of Venice populated by weird inhuman mermaids, lords of hell, mummy armies, stone lions, and the "Flowing Queen." But such a dreadful cliffhanger really isn't fair! I can only hope the next two books are translated quickly.

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Devil's Due, Rachel Caine - the second in Caine's "Red Letter Days" series, this picks up just where the last left off, told from the perspective of the second heroine, Lucia. There's less of a central mystery here, and more X-Files-ish mythology gestures, complete with Lucia's strange abduction and the loss of four days. It may not be the most original world, but it's an engaging one, and I

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Devil's Bargain, Rachel Caine - Caine's first book in her new series for Silhouette which has remarkably little romance and a satisfying action/conspiracy twist. This is a bit clunky in the setup, but once the mysterious law firm pushes our two heroines into a detective partnership, it moves along nicely. Shadowy corporate psychics and a mysterious set of movers and shakers barely tie up the

Emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11305741886934181903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503909.post-1141229607670370572006-03-01T11:11:00.000-05:002006-03-01T11:13:27.673-05:00

The Losers: Ante Up - this Vertigo title is the one I always want to impulse-buy at the comics shop, and I may have to once I'm caught up with the trades. A solid, action-packed spy/revenge thriller like those I so adored in middle school.

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The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion - an archaeology of grief, beautifully and clearly written.

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The Brief History of the Dead, Kevin Brockmeier - oh, but this is good. Another of those quasi-science fiction titles, this is dually set in a near future version of our world, and the city of the living-dead, where the recently died live out their lives until everyone that knew them dies. A bit reminiscent of Jonathan Carrol, it's definitely more character-driven than plot-based, but I adore

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Green Lantern: Rebirth - while I do casually read the trades, I'm not enough of a DCU fangirl to get all the nods to continuity this serial apparently contains. The important thing is that it's a good story with typically clear artwork and a boatload of related characters. There's a nice section at the back where writer Geoff Johns explains how and why he did what he did to bring Hal Jordan

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Sandman Mystery Theater: The Vamp - the third collected trade of a well-done, if trope-ish noir mystery series

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Mortification : Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame - snagged from the $1 rack, this was good busstop and interlude reading. Most of the essays are short and amusing, but there's nothing terribly embarrasing until you get to Irvine Welsh, quel surprise.

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Micah, Laurell K. Hamilton - I had the dubious honor of being the first person in the Allegheny County library system to read this.. longtime Hamilton readers know what they're getting, but the good news is that it's marginally better than Incubus dreams, mostly because of its brevity. A shortish paperback, it's mostly an interlude meant to set up the next Anita Blake hardcover, Danse Macabre;

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Dramacon, V.1 - a guilty pleasure - romantic tension and hijinks set at a manga/anime convention. It's really much better than it sounds.

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Delicate Creatures , J. Michael Staczynski & Michael Zulli - though this is a children's picturebook fairytale painted by Zulli, the subject matter is as heavy as you might expect from JMS's Midnight Nation and parts of the B5 arc. Ethereal creatures that live in the walls of the castle must decide what to do when dictatorial 'disappearings' start occuring, and their Castle dungeons are used for

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Wizard and Glass , Stephen King - the fourth book of the Dark Tower series, and the first I didn't immediately tear through, mostly because of its structure. The bulk of the book is a "campfire tale" of Roland at 14, and has wicked witches, painful first love and a future western setting that's both desolately creepy and apocalyptically amusing - Hey Jude in a whirlwind never seemed less happy.

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Vampire Science, Jonathan Blum, Kate Orman - surprisingly good for a take on Doctor Who's vampire variant. An early 8th doctor book, there was littler canon to guess at (since the only screen canon is the telefilm) - there's the addition of a companion since then, and the presumable return of a member of UNIT that knew Seven, but otherwise no background knowledge was necessary. A nice look at

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Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams , Catherynne M. Valente - beyond gorgeous. An isolated asian woman, Ayako, dreams many versions of herself as she moves up the levels of a possibly unreal mental pagoda. Bits from Japanese, Egyptian, and Greek myth weave together in small concentrated fragments, drawn together at the end by a metaphysical idea of quantum mechanics and death. Beautiful.

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The Pulse, Vol. 2: Secret War - a bit more action filled as a followup to volume one, this parallels/bookends the Secret War arc from the Avengers/Captain America titles

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The War of Dreams, or, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Angela Carter - a skillfully crafted book that didn't go quite where I expected from the first chapter. A Sadean foundation, overlaid with the framework of Gulliver and Jerry Cornelius, Carter describes a hallucinogenic war won only by the unhappy inaction of its rationalist traveller.

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Ultimate Elektra Volume 1: Devil's Due - Mike Carey's become one of my must-read comics authors, so when I saw this on the list of new library titles, I ordered it even though I'd gotten bored with both Daredevil and Elektra as characters. Sadly, Carey doesn't offer anything more than the standard cookie-cutter plot - I've seen variants in probably a dozen martial arts/action films, and none of

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Dominion, Melanie Jackson - I rather liked Jackson's paranormal romances, so when I saw this on the secondhand shelf I though it might be an amusing diversion. Unfortunately, it couldn't be more of a stock romance novel; lots of reincarnation nonsense and a 'time travel' gimmick that manages to be completely uninteresting. It wasn't necessarily bad, just boring - there was little to no conflict

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Legion of Super-Heroes: Teenage Revolution - I like the writer, and the idea, and I really wanted to like the execution. It's a step up from the standard cartoon plots, but otherwise quite average in both characterization and plotting.

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Spellbinders - more kid-friendly Mike Carey. The witchy plot's rather typical, but still fun, and the art is similar to Marvel's other teen supernatural digest title, Runaways.

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Tom Strong (Book 5) - the first collected volume to not include stories scripted by Moore, this maintains the feel and visual style of the existing series. While I've never been blown away by the Tom Strong comics, the Brubaker two-parter at the end makes this worth a look.

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Textual Poachers; Television Fans and Participatory Culture , Henry Jenkins - a well-researched volume of cultural studies that works equally well as a history of fan-writing in the pre-internet days. While usenet groups are mentioned, most of the study is on small zine circulation, conventions, and old-school vidding methods. Jenkins covers a wide range of fandoms, many with which I'm not

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Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie , Holly Black - set in the same version of our world as Tithe, this is nearly as startlingly original an entry into YA urban fantasy. Addictive magic injectable like cocaine, teen runaways, dead mermaids, human-troll romance, and battles with glass swords. Great immersive fun.

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X-Men: The New Age of Apocalypse - underwhelming. I seem to find most X-Men trades underwhelming these days.

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The Garden, Elsie V. Aidinoff - A beautiful reworking of the Garden of Eden story, it's hard to believe this YA novel was written by a woman in her seventies. In this Eden, the Serpent is a marvelous supernatural creature of Latin American myth, nurturing parent to Eve, while God raises Adam. The trouble in paradise begins not with the legendary tree, but with God forcing Adam to rape Eve to

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Knitorama - rather gimmicky. The kitschy new-knitters alternative to Stitch and Bitch, it offers decent instruction and tons of rather tacky projects (some crochet). The one pattern I knit (the hand grenade) had a few errors in its transcription from its original appearance in The Guardian.

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100 Bullets Vol. 8: The Hard Way - somewhere along the way I seem to have skipped book 7 (which I shall remedy shortly). Book 8 isn't hard to jump into, and offers lots of fascinating bits about Roanoke, Croatoa, and the Minutemen. I love the titular gimmick, but I like the larger conspiracy even more.

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Strange: Beginnings and Endings - In today's comic clime, tust about everything but Doctor Strange has been updated, revamped and made 'Ultimate.' JMS rewrites the origin story in a satisfyingly post-modern manner, with plenty of action and martial arts on display.

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Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro - realist, emotionally complex science fiction. Though it passes the science fiction test, I'm still hesitant to call it such, for the setting is only marginally unlike the modern world, and the characters heartbreakingly human. Like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, part of the impact comes from the narrator's unwillingness to place blame or

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The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle - I finally got around to reading this, and I wish I'd read it sooner. This is a lovely little gem of a fairytale, with hints of Narnia and Lloyd Alexander and George MacDonald. I was sorry when it ended.

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Supreme Power: Contact - a beginning look at the scary idea of Superman being raised in controlled isolation as a ward of Uncle Sam. Realistic and disheartening, as only JMS can manage. Knowing his work, though, I also suspect the possibility of redemption.

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Captain America: Winter Soldier - It's still far from great, but there's a refreshing absence of patriotic rhetoric, with a bit of existential questioning tossed in with the fast-paced action.

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Hellblazer: Black Flowers, Mike Carey does Constantine again. I was pleased with All His Engines, but Black Flowers draws away from the more introspective Constantine, running full-tilt towards the horrific without the amorality of Azzarello's American arc, or the pulp cliche of Ennis by the time he got to Son of Man. I'm actually eager to read the next couple of volumes

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The Waste Lands, Stephen King - Book three of the Dark Tower is still going strong. Desolately literate with some bits redolent of Bradbury circa Dark Carnival and others evocative of a nightmarish version of The Time Machine. Creepily claustrophobic and decadant.

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The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King - so I've finally gotten back to reading the Dark Tower series (since my housemate's been readng them), and I'm tremendously appreciative of the seamless melding of stock science fiction, dark fantasy, and the more typical King horror. I didn't bother rereading The Gunslinger, so I only have the vaguest memory of events that happened before this. (Thinking

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Orlando: A Biography , Virginia Woolf - beautiful on so many levels. If you've basic familiarity with Woolf you probably know that the novel is about a protagonist who begins the novel as an Elizabethan teenager and ends it as a twentieth century woman. If this isn't advertisement enough, Woolf's whimsical tone and beautifully sharp language should be enough to sell the book. I dog-eared many a

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I think I'm going to start occasionally throwing in really good journal articles, because they take just as much time as regular reading.from Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2004 Autumn pp. 64-90"Intertextuality, Generic Shift and Ideological Transformation in the Internationalising of Doctor Who" by Peter Wright - an excellent and persuasive look at the cross-cultural

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Beyond the Pale, Savannah Russe - Beyond silly. A well-intentioned vampire is forced to become a spy for the US gov't. In between meeting the requisite male-vampire slayer she lusts after, she must prevent an evil vampire collector from attainting valuable magical artifacts. It would have been run-of-the-mill thriller material if it weren't for the pretentious poetic epigraphs, the tedious

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Dreams Made Flesh, Anne Bishop - a collection of stories and novellas set in the world of Bishop's Black Jewels Trilogy. The Black Jewels is a startling aberation in dark fantasy because what should be a collection of stock cliches becomes instead compelling and human. While The Invisible Ring was an earlier, and unfortunately unremarkable parallel novel, the novellas in Dreams Made Flesh

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Hulk: Tempest Fugit - I usually catch Peter David's work on the Hulk in non-sequential spurts, however it falls randomly from the library. As such, I really can't speak for continuity. That said, there wasn't a lot in this arc that was new or surprising, and I've seen at least a variant of this sort of plot more times than I can count. The short story at the end "Dear Tricia" is quite good

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Gloom Cookie V. 4: The Carnival Wars - the gloom goes on; more quirky gothlife drama with alternate universes and werewolves. The art is still appropriate, but I really wish they'd stick to the same illustrator for more than one of the volumes.

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The Erotics of Instruction, Regina Barreca (Editor), Deborah Denenholz Morse (Editor) - While I like the concept, I found the execution lacking in this collection of academic meditations on the student-teacher dynamic. Some of the essays only fit in the loosest interpretations, and while most do an adequate job explaining the whys, there's little discussion of the ethics involved. Worth looking

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JLA: Syndicate Rules , Kurt Busiek - Astro City's Busiek throws in all the familiar cliches - alternate universes, evil versions of our heroes, and uneasy alliances, with the Justice League Elite tagging along for enforcement. All told, there's an awful lot running around in this collection, and while it's all in good fun, I've come to expect better from both Busiek and contemporary team-ups.

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Foop!, Chris Genoa - not nearly as great as I was led to believe, though at least part of my disappointment is that I just wasn't in the mood for a novel as wildly absurd and surreal as this. The title refers to the noise made by traveling in time through a patented tourism machine, and the plot loosely involves a time-tour guide reassigned to protect younger variants of his eccentric boss.

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Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man, Justin Richards - I've seen a lot of fans complaining about the lack of depth of this novel; it's my first Doctor Who spinoff novel, so I'm not sure what to compare it to, but it's far from awful. It plays like a mediocre episode, or perhaps an episode of the more over-the-top Tom Baker era Doctor. As a former Trek fan, I don't expect my spinoff books to be high

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The Doctor Who File, Peter Haining - published prior to Sylvester McCoy taking on the role of the Doctor's seventh incarnation, this oversized volume is mostly a collection of press clippings and interviews with the cast and crew of the earlier versions of the show. I'm not as familiar with the first through third doctors, so this wasn't as interesting as it could have been. Lots of nice photos

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Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree - Lucifer just keeps getting better - this is a series I might have to buy trades of one of these days. It's certainly put Mike Carey on my permanant must-read comics writers list. The standout art in this collection is, of course, P. Craig Russell's contribution to the Lucifer 'origin' story, "Lilith." It's worth noting here that while the collection continues

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Robin/Batgirl: Fresh Blood - though I'm totally put off by the overly rounded cartoon style of the book, I really like the idea. Robin and Batgirl are far more interesting as flawed characters than Batman has become, and their interactions with one another felt natural, though I'm not overly familiar with either's individual titles. Definately one of the better short Bat-family titles.

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Ex Machina: Tag - I think I'm starting to like this series nearly as well as Vaughan's Y: The Last Man. I like that the mysterious power-granting force seems to work like a meme and has dubious moral intent, and I love the idea of a minor superhero politician where there's more politics than rescuing going on. My minor gripe with this arc is the way the gay marriage story was incorporated; much

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Winter Moon : Moontide\The Heart Of The Moon\Banshee Cries , Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, C.E. Murphy - three "lunar-themed" novellas and no werewolves in sight. I'm impressed. Lackey's is only barely fantasy, more historical romance, but well-executed with only the minimal preachiness that mars most of her recent books. It's set in her 500 Kingdoms universe, which I really disliked from the

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Cobralingus, Jeff Noon - this is utterly fascinating, and I want one of my own, badly. It's ostensibly a 'how to' on remixing texts in intriguing and provocative ways, but I'm utterly in love with some of the example products.

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Wrath of the Spectre - this is old school Spectre, which I couldn't tell blindly ordering it from the library. It's also amusing in the Hammer Horror film so-bad-its-good manner - great fun for a reprint.

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Finding Serenity : Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly - like most critical books aimed at a popular audience, this is a mixed bag. I'm not familiar with the "smart pop" series prior to this, but I've read most of the titles in the Popular Culture and Philosophy line, and find this on a similar par. The glossary and discussion of Chinese/English blending is

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X-Men: the End v. 1 - a confusing, poorly scripted muddle. I doubt I'd have made more sense of it even if I did follow all the X-titles religiously

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Batman Wargames: Act 3 - While I love the darkness of Gotham and the Batman section of the DC 'verse, I'm bothered by the perception of its female characters. It's probably no secret that a particular member of the Bat family bites the dust, but I'm not at all pleased with the execution. I'm not charmed at all by the way Bruce deals (or doesn't deal) with people; he's had ages in comics time to

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Justice League Elite - Volume 1 - a sort of 'darker alternative' to the JLA, JLEl (not to be confused with the Justice League of Europe) offers a reasonably complex storyline and a few interesting meditations on superhero morality. Comparable to some of the better JLA arcs, Elite walks the fine line between the chic nihilism of Jenny Sparks and the Authority, and the amateur theatrics of The

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Invincible Volume 5: The Fact Of Life - more origin stories, and an extended bit about an earlier alien adversary, this fifth volume finds Invincible unmasking to his girlfriend, while hiding feelings for another teammate with powers. Still a nice title, with a visual style that complements its content.

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Runaways V.4: True Believers - books 1-3 of the series offered a single contained 'origin' story and a unique-ish idea: the children of supervillians go on the run when they find out their parents are baddies. This fourth collection takes the title in more typical 'team up' directions - there's a time travel paradox, a hidden villain, and more sly pokes at advertising and consumption. Still

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Necropolis, Tim Waggoner - a bit like a lot of supernatural mystery universes, Necropolis is a place where the dead, the demonic, and everything in-between went to have their own haven from the outside world. Waggoner's main character is a Zombie PI with a mildly entertaining case. Not stellar, but a solid entry into the increasingly popular subgenre.

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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen , Julie Powell - my fluff non-fiction for the month; I don't normally enjoy reading about food preparation, though I'm coming to increasingly love cooking itself. This isn't unputdownable, but Powell has an easy coloquial writing style that's only mildly self-indulgent. A quick read, though all the bits on Julia Child herself seem

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Teenagers from Mars - equal parts Keven Smith film, and CBLDF tract, this black and white graphic novel chronicles the anarchistic events that are set-off when the local Mallmart agreeing to stop selling comic books. Mallmart clerk Macon finds himself facing censorship charges over his own hand-drawn comic, and soon becomes embroiled in bottle-smashing, spray painting, and the creation of a "

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Scurvy Dogs, crass, over-the-top comic book sillyness for the pirate loving reader. Best read in small doses, as I found it wears a bit in chunk reading, but if you've ever been tempted to fly the Jolly Roger or participate in "Talk like a Pirate Day" this should appeal.

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