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Finished reading Chuck Palahniuk's "Not Forever But For Now."
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Though interesting, it wasn’t as compelling as his best books; didn’t tear through this one. Eh, whatever.

Books are okay, I guess. But they don't do anything. They just kind of sit there, and make you do all the work. No so for gamebooks, which are more interactive. Which is what you get from Jonathan Green's superheroic new gamebook "Moon Knight: Age Of Anubis." For more, check out this exclusive interview.
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The action-RPG "Starfield" is one of the best games of the year. But the good people at Bethesda Game Studios also deserve credit for doing some cool things in it no one else does (usually). Here are 4 Things I Applaud "Starfield" For Including (And 1 I Wish They Had).
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Started reading Chuck Palahniuk's "Not Forever But For Now."
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Expected this to be fucked up, just not "'Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good' if Megadeth were a posh string quartet at a society function" fucked up.

Read S.L. Coney's "Wild Spaces" tonight.
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Even though I knew something bad was going to happen (thank you, ominous vibe), I was still gripped by this freaky boy and his dog(!) story.

Started reading Tongo Eisen-Martin's "Someone's Dead Already: Poems."
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Excited to dig into this early collection of his .

Finished reading Matt Wallace's "Savage Crowns: Book Three Of The Savage Rebellion Trilogy."
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An engaging end to this exciting but often dark epic..

Finished reading Cynthia Cruz's "How The End Begins: Poems."
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Excellent, especially her more impressionistic .

Started reading Matt Wallace's "Savage Crowns: Book Three Of The Savage Rebellion Trilogy."
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Curious (and excited) to see how this saga ends.

Finished reading Matt Wallace's "Savage Bounty: Book Two Of The Savage Rebellion Trilogy."
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Solid but also rather unexpected middle part to this trilogy. And now, the conclusion...

Started reading Cynthia Cruz's "How The End Begins: Poems."
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A bit chaotic, but in a good way, the way I like my sometimes.

In Tim Powers' new ghostly horror novel "My Brother's Keeper," author Emily Bronte fights werewolves. Seriously. You can't make this stuff up. Except he did. To find out why, check out this exclusive interview.
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In Jon Evans's new hard sci-fi novel "Exadelic," an AI is trying to eliminate the biggest threat it faces ... which happens to be some schmuck in middle management. To find out why, check out this exclusive Q&A.
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Finished reading Chana Bloch's "Blood Honey: Poems."
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Solid throughout; as good as the other three I've read.

In my new interview with author Eliane Boey, she talks about how her psychological science fiction horror novella "Carrier" and the cyberpunk sci-fi mystery novella "Signal \ Tracer" came to be paired in her first book, "Other Minds."
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Though firmly in the same realm of portal fantasy as "Alice In Wonderland," "Oz," and "Narnia," Jane Lindskold's "Over Where" novels have one big difference, as she explains in this exclusive interview about the third installment, "House Of Rough Diamonds."
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Started reading the anthology "Star Wars: From A Certain Point Of View: Return Of The Jedi."
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Oh, to have read this 40 years ago right after seeing the movie for the first time...

Good poets take influence from many things. Take Mary Jo Bang, who, in this exclusive interview about her new poetry collection "A Film In Which I Play Everyone," not only cites other poets, but David Bowie, surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning, and "Back To The Future Part III" as well.
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While it sometimes seems that no one reads poetry, the idea of AI writing it has come up a lot in all the conversations about Artificial Intelligence. It's also the impetus to what happens in Sean Michaels' cyberpunk sci-fi (or should that be speculative fiction) novel "Do You Remember Being Born?", which he and I discuss in this exclusive interview.
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Started reading Matt Wallace's "Savage Bounty: Book Two Of The Savage Rebellion Trilogy."
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Only 30 pages in but it's already grabbed me like the first one did.

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