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Archives for November 2004

Review: “Seven Seasons of Buffy”

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I try to avoid reading books out of order, and while it usually wouldn’t matter in this case, my having read Five Seasons of Angel before this one brings a couple of things to mind… the foremost being that while editor Glenn Yeffeth obtained fewer essays for the Angel collection, he also seems to have obtained more highly engaging essays for the it than for the Buffy collection. While that may sound like a minor slam of the Buffy collection, it’s not… it’s a big time golf-clap salute.

Cover to Cover #141: Gwyneth Jones / Vijaya Schartz

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Gwyneth Jones
A fictional account of a scientist would truly be science fiction, right? That’s what you’ll find in Gwyneth’s newest book, Life

Vijaya Schartz
Vijaya is the president of the Arizona Authors Association and joins us to talk about her newest book, White Tiger.

Review: “Five Seasons of Angel”

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You know that a pop culture staple has gone far beyond the normal range of fandom and reached saturation when serious academic studies relating to the psychology, philosophy, and morality of show and of its characters are being published.

To my knowledge, only Buffy the Vampire Slayer (with two academic conferences dedicated to it so far) and Godzilla fall into that category, but Buffy’s spinoff, Angel, should be right beside them.

Cover to Cover #140: Tee Morris / Jon O’Bergh

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Tee Morris
Tee’s got a new book out, a tale of a dwarven detective in Capone-era Chicago called Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword.

Jon O’Bergh
Interesting sounds from dreamy and floating to driving with intensity. A few tracks are sampled in our interview with Jon. His CD is entitled Songs from Other Planets.

Review: “The Incredibles”

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What Monsters, Inc. did for monster movies and creatures in the closet, The Incredibles does even more for comic book heroes and James Bond flicks.

Review: “Orphanage” by Robert Buettner

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Robert Buettner is a great writer. Seriously. Anyone who can keep me not only interested in a military SF book, but also interested enough to read it in less than THREE DAYS is doing something right. You just don’t want to put the book down.

Cover to Cover #139: Greg Bear / James K. Burk

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Greg Bear
We just had to get Greg on the show again when we found out that the SciFi Channel was developing his novels Darwin’s Children and Darwin’s Radio. Additionally, Dead Lines, a high-tech ghost story is out in stores. Fans of Greg’s hard-science fiction will be intrigued by his treatment to ghost stories.

James K. Burk
Jim has released High Rage, a fantasy novel, as well as several chapbooks of the magical realism genre.

Review: “Just a Geek” by Wil Wheaton

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It’s not often I read books which both reverse and elevate my opinion of the author. Before reading Just a Geek, Wil Wheaton was the child-actor who played arguably the most hated character on Star Trek:TNG, as well as the kid with the biggest (leech-infested) one in four counties. After finishing the book, Wil has become one of my Personal Heroes.