2012 Hugo and Campbell Award Nominees
Courtesy of Locus. Nominees for the Hugo Awards and for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been announced by Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Chicago,...
View Article“Ashes of Honor” by Seanan McGuire (Daw, 2012)
October Daye is back again in a new story in this sixth book in the series. A year has passed since Toby’s last adventures left her exhausted, wounded and barely alive, and someone close to her dead....
View ArticleBookbanter Column: “Doing What’s Right” (May 21, 2011)
If knowledge is power, we live in an age where that power travels at the speed of light, or in the case of the Internet, the speed of a T1 line and a fiber optic cable. The information superhighway...
View ArticleBookbanter Column: “Thank You Borders” (September 16, 2011)
Window signs for Borders Roseville store #130 at the beginning of liquidation I started working for Borders in October of 2005; last October I had my fifth-year anniversary working for the company; by...
View ArticleBookbanter Column: Get Lost in a Good (Urban) Fantasy Series, Part 5: October...
Seanan McGuire published her debut novel and first in the October Daye series, Rosemary and Rue, in 2009. She now has an impressive nine books out in just three years with the tenth due out in...
View Article“Midnight Blue-Light Special” by Seanan McGuire (Daw, 2013)
Verity Price is back, doing her best to juggle everything going on in her life, whether it’s working her job to get enough money to eat, checking on and protecting the many cryptids of New York City...
View Article“Chimes at Midnight” by Seanan McGuire (DAW, 2013)
The seventh volume of the October Daye series, Chimes at Midnight, is your typical Toby Daye book, as things seem fine and semi-normal for the first few pages, and then take a lunge to the bizarre and...
View Article“Indexing” by Seanan McGuire (47North, 2014)
Seanan McGuire is the New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye urban fantasy series, as well as the author of some great biological horror books like the Newsflesh trilogy and Parasite...
View Article“Every Heart a Doorway” by Seanan McGuire (Tor, 2016)
Seanan McGuire has a number of books under her belt, with both the October Daye and Incryptid series. Then there are the many books she’s written under Mira Grant. So with the publication of her new...
View ArticleBookbanter’s Best Reads of 2017
Reviews: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann Paradox Bound by Peter Clines The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan...
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