More This and That

And when I say “this and that,” I mean it.

Let’s start with some traditional Scottish music, courtesy of the Paul McKenna Band and their new album, Stem the Tide. Sounds pretty hardcore.

And from there to some traditional American music, more or less, of the country/bluegrass kind, with a release from Nell Robinson, . . . → Read More: More This and That

D.D. Barant: Better Off Undead

FBI profiler Jace Valchek has been stranded in an alternate world unlike any she could have imagined. Here, pure humans like herself make up a mere one percent of a population otherwise comprised of vampires, werewolves, and golems. Selected for her expertise in understanding insanity and tracking down criminals, she now works for . . . → Read More: D.D. Barant: Better Off Undead

2012 — Day Two at GMR

Yes, it’s January 2nd here at GMR, and as I promised yesterday, we have more to keep you occupied on those long evenings.

First, Brian Lumley’s The Fly-By-Nights, a slightly different take on vampires.

And as long as we’re looking at vampires, we have Jeaniene Frost’s One Grave at a Time, in which the . . . → Read More: 2012 — Day Two at GMR

Mike Resnick: Stalking the Unicorn / Stalking the Vampire

Mike Resnick is one of those protean writers who should be much better known than he is. I remember Santiago as one of the most quietly spectacular works of science fiction I’ve ever read: a Quest, an Odyssey, beautifully conceived and masterfully rendered as a series of vignettes, all around the central mystery, “Who . . . → Read More: Mike Resnick: Stalking the Unicorn / Stalking the Vampire