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Michael Moorcock in Locus
An upcoming issue of Locus has an interview with Moorcock. They have a special offer to pre-order it. I don't have the money to send them this week, but I'll have to make sure I do this. I don't want...
The Nightside
I recently read Simon Green's Into the Nightside and it's follow-up, Agents of Light and Darkness and I've been meaning to mention them in my blog. If you've played in any of my Dreaming City games or read the site, you might be familiar with my character, Lazarus Jones. Lazarus is a detective who specializes in taking the weird cases. I started writing little short stories about him when I was in High School and even ended up playing him in a short RPG campaign. Then, he was shelved for years until I decided to run the first Dreaming City game at Ambercon a few years ago. I dusted him off, updated him a little (making him a Werewolf instead of his original curse which was more complicated) and placed him in a setting where he seemed right at home.
I've always had a weakness for the noir detective genre. Add in a little bit of the fantastic and it becomes even cooler. So, when I saw the Nightside series, I had to read it. From its description it sounded a lot like my Dreaming City and it did have a lot of similiarities.
Anyways, I was going to write I nice review of the books, but I was looking online for a list of the books in the series (these are the only two so far) and I found this website's review and it says about everything I was going to see. It's a worthy read. Check it out.
BBC's 200 Best Books
The BBC has made it's list of the 200 Best Books of all time. They are:...
Books That Make the Man
Arref and others have been doing this meme of listing 15 speculative fiction books that inspire you. (I'm not sure if that was the original intent of the meme, but that was what they were posting.) My books are:...
Quickie Reviews
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Novel): This science fiction novel was written for the same age group as the Harry Potter books but like the Harry Potter books, should appeal to a much larger demographic. It is the story...
Michael Moorcock Interview
Whybark.com has an interview with Michael Moorcock where he discusses the Elric Movie. Be warned, there are a few minor spoilers for The Elric Saga. Here are some excerpts: You’ve recently mentioned in your online forum that an Elric movie...