Central Crime Zone (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Blogger and Crimespree contributor Patty Abbott runs Forgotten Friday. For those of you that are not familiar with it, FF runs on Fridays (but you figured that out, right') and featured a number of folks offering up some little known books that we should all check out. Here is the line-up for Nov 13th. Mark Arsenault, The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain Paul Bishop, The Venetian Affair, Helen MacInnes...
Strange Horizons Reviews (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Downum takes us into that dark and dangerous territory pioneered by Robert E. Howard and Fritz Leiber.
Dark Worlds (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Geoff Wilmetts makes a good case for the digital age hurting collectors in the latest SF Crowsnest . I understand the lure of old pulp pages and toys, etc. I think we all know that one, if you've been around a while in SF/F/H. But I don't quite agree with Geoff. He says it's not the same owning a book as an ebook as it is owning the physical copy. While that is true on a physical level it isn't really...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Todd Mason forwarded me the following list of writers' favorite scary stories. I reply after the list Martin Morse Wooster reports to the FictionMags list: In their October 28 WASHINGTON POST fiction page, the editors of BOOK WORLD asked writers, "What story scares the hell out of you?" Anne Rice: M.R. James, "Count Magnus" Scott Smith: Stewart O'Nan, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING Douglas...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Fritz Leiber was a chess player, preacher, college teacher, champion fencer, Shakespearian actor...and, yes, a great storyteller. Sponsored Topics: Chess - Games - Board Games - Abstract - Battle Games
Badelynge (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I used to read a lot of Fritz Leiber's work when I was younger. This one's a sharp little novella with the somewhat prescient speculative warning of the dangers of allowing machines to think for us and organize our lives. What is so clever about that, you might say, as you fiddle with your gadget of the week, or take that fifth call of the hour on your mobile/blackberry/pager. Very clever indeed if...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Fafhrd being overly enamored with aquachicks is a problem. So is a monster squid. 4 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-when-the-sea-kings-away/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Guild sting on duo proves problematic, and a lot more skeletal than they expected. 4 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-thieves-house/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
If sailing is not by choice, run away. 3.5 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-the-sunken-land/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Desiring diamond's eye requires skiing skills to prevent selves being shot. 4 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-the-cloud-of-hate/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
It is Rat-Queens, sea monsters, annoying bloody kittens and world travelling dragon riding collectors for Fafhrd and the Mouser. 4.5 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-scyllas-daughter/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Falling out extortion racket godliness fun. 5 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-lean-times-in-lankhmar/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
The meet of the Mouser and Fafhrd, at least according to Sheelba. 3.5 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-induction/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Spendthrift boys discourse, draw when threatened, and are somewhat disturbed by sword-fighting smog. 4 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-the-cloud-of-hate-2/
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Avian fakir fishing artistry destroyed by bad black bird god botherers. 4.5 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/leiber-fritz-fafhrd-and-the-grey-mouser-claws-from-the-night/
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