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Finished reading Kyle Dargan's "Panzer Herz: Poems."
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As good as his other collections, which is saying a lot. As a fellow former resident of Essex County, I salute you.

While iconic / author Lisa Tuttle's influences are pretty well set at this point, in this exclusive interview about her new collection "Riding The Nightmare," she explains how some of these stories were actually written in response to other people's.
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Having written two multi-book series and started a third, writer Jessie Kwak is going in a different dimension for her sci-fi novelette "After The Tide." To find out what this relatively shorter story is all about, check out this exclusive interview.
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Started reading the collection "The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection."
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Only seven years late...

For the latest in eSpecBooks' "Systema Paradoxa" series of novellas about cryptids, writer Ken Schrader tells a tale of the J’Ba Fofi, giant spiders that live in the Congo. But as he says in this exclusive interview, they're not the real monsters in his story.
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Started reading Kyle Dargan's "Panzer Herz: Poems."
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The subject matter and varied structure of the first 7 paired nicely with Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew."

Started reading Ginger Smith's "The Rush's Echo."
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Is so far as entertaining and engaging as the first book, "The Rush's Edge."

Finished reading Andrea Gibson's "You Better Be Lightning: Poems."
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Yet another impressive collection of from someone who's impressed me as much twice before.

Started reading "Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide To Walking, Talking, And Probing Like A Real M.D." by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.
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Very entertaining and informative ... and a good indicator that I was right not to go to medical school.

Started reading "Let's Play Doctor: The Instant Guide To Walking, Talking, And Probing Like A Real M.D." by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D.
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I feel smarter already...

Finished reading Neil Gaiman's "Norse Mythology."
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Though not as Gaiman-y as one of his original novels, these retellings of, yeah, Norse Myths were just as gripping, entertaining, and vivid-ly written. So, yeah, Gaiman-y.

Started reading Neil Gaiman's "Norse Mythology."
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Interesting (but entirely coincidental) to start reading this on the same day I started replaying "God Of War: Ragnarok."

Started reading Tobi Ogundiran's collection, "Jackal, Jackal."
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If the first two stories are any indication (and I really hope they are), this is going to be a super good collection of .

Finished reading Mary Sangiovanni's "Alien: Enemy Of My Enemy."
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Thought this was going to be a small but exciting / engaging story, and it was — until it opened up towards the end and man, the implications. So good.

While other writers have put science fiction spins on the Greek myths, in "More Perfect," her sci-fi take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, writer Temi Oh also incorporated her "background in neuroscience.” To learn how, check out this exclusive interview.
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Started reading Andrea Gibson's "You Better Be Lightning: Poems."
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Really, really good so far, especially "The Museum Of Broken Relationships."

I'm enjoying the new version of the way I enjoy all faithful remasters of old games: with nostalgia in my heart, and a wish they'd updated everything in my head.
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Started reading Mary Sangiovanni's "Alien: Enemy Of My Enemy."
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Well, this certainly started off with a bang. Er, bangs.

Wait, do chests go "bang" when they explode outward?

Finished reading Philippa Ballantine's "Alien: Inferno's Fall."
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Not nearly as good as the previous one in this trilogy, but still interesting. Now, for the final book.

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