TWO NEW LITTLE WOMEN MONSTER MASHUP BOOKS
Source: examiner.com
Not one, but two, variations on the monster mashup book featuring Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” characters were released nationally this week.
Prepare yourselves as the Alcott characters try to give the Jane Austen mashup franchise a run for their money.
“Little Women and Werewolves” follows the humorous adaptation route of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, revealing the original text for the classic story, before her publisher demanded removal of any mention of werewolves.
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RICK RIORDAN’S GODS AND MONSTERS
Source: online.wsj.com
Author Rick Riordan loves New York City—and, on occasion, he likes sending monsters to attack it.
In the climactic battle in “Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” his best-selling fantasy adventure series for young adults, an army of creatures out of Greek mythology lays siege to the Empire State Building which, in Mr. Riordan’s universe, is the portal to Mt. Olympus. Much of his coming fantasy novel, “The Kane Chronicles, Book One: The Red Pyramid,” is set in Brooklyn (which suffers an attack by serpent leopards), and key sequences take place in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Egyptian wing, which gets overrun by scorpions.
Peggy Fogelman, the Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education at the Met, uses the “Percy Jackson” books as the basis for some learning programs at the institution.
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AFTER THE DOME: STEPHEN KING IN 2010
Source: tor.com
Last November, Stephen King released Under the Dome, a massive work hailed by many as a return to form. Since then, things have seemed pretty quiet from Mr. King—that is, if you’ve been listening for something making a Dome-sized splash. But there are at least a few smaller works from the King of Horror released so far this year that may have slipped under your radar, and rumors are beginning to fly about more to come.
The first King release of 2010 was the audiobook edition of UR, a novella about a technophobic professor whose newly purchased e-reader arrives with a few rather crucial differences from the standard specs. The story was actually published in 2009, but I mention it here because you may have missed it (I know I did) due to its delivery mechanism: the text was a Kindle exclusive, and it is still unavailable in a printed edition.
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CHINA MIEVILLE WINS ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
Source: fantasysfblog.com
China Mieville has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. This is the third time Mieville has won the award. He is the first author to win the award three times. City and the City is described as a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights. The crime takes place in two cities that occupy the same physical space.
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points to conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything he could have imagined.
Borlu must travel from the decaying Beszel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own. This is a border crossing like no other, a journey as psychic as it is physical, a shift in perception, a seeing of the unseen.
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MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction
Source: sfsignal.com
Spaceships have been a staple of science fiction stories since its earliest days of imagining ourselves beyond the stars. We asked this week’s panelists:
Q: If you could ride on any spaceship from written science fiction, which would it be? Why?
Here’s what they said.
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