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Derek’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Derek’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Derek McCaw
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Black Rose
Black Rose by Arlo Z. GravesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I picked this up on a whim and ended up devouring it. It fits as "Weird Western," and an interesting twist on the AI debate. Whether intended or not, I couldn't help think that.
Set in an alternate early 20th century, Black Rose depicts an America at war with machines becoming sentient through living silver, with gunslingers and bounty hunters Read more of this blog post »
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Eye-opener — and Not Just About Espionage I was inspired to read this book after reading the comic book The Manchurian from Image Comics. (Part of a graphic anthology “The Horizon Experiment”) While fascinating from the beginning with the usual overcon ...more |
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Someone was going to write this book. I'm glad it was Max Allan Collins. The dialogue is crisp (I should have written some down to quote later), the characterizations are vivid. Though this is a modern novel, it echoes the style of pulp writing. Coll ...more |
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| These days, it's hard not to draw parallels between recent science fiction and our own attitudes. Though this allegory is charming, the feline alien race called "The Race" clearly reflects a colonizing mindset, made deadlier by their long-lived natur ...more | |
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Gerrold tackles AI and private equity with sensitivity and a few mistakes because he wrote it in 1972. Some of the sexual politics haven't aged well, but that seems par for the course of a certain era of science fiction and horror. While I didn't thi ...more |
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| I really wasn't sure what I was getting into, but a friend had recommended this to me a while back. It's audacious and gently vicious. Kuang reminded me that I'm not sure I have the fortitude to play the publishing game. ...more | |
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| Following in the footsteps of Frankenstein, this is a modern day narrator filling us in on her ancestor's journal which also covers the narrative of an indigenous person "Good Stab." The name becomes ironic as Jones puts his own spin on vampire lore. ...more | |
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I picked this up on a whim and ended up devouring it. It fits as "Weird Western," and an interesting twist on the AI debate. Whether intended or not, I couldn't help think that. Set in an alternate early 20th century, Black Rose depicts an America at ...more |
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| What impressed me most was that Tim Curry provides a fairly linear narrative of his life, though maybe not going as deep as fans want. But it is HIS story, and he points out up top that there are parts of his life he considers none of our business, a ...more | |
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How do you inject new life into a werewolf story? You come up with something to terrorize the werewolves -- something more than silver bullets. Brian Asman does what we expect in terms of werewolf lore. As in, what you think you know is sort of wrong, ...more |
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