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While fantasy authors often cite fantasy stories as influences, in my new interview with author T.L. Huchu about his urban fantasy novel "The Legacy Of Arniston House," he also cites a video game-inspired TV show of the bloody battle persuasion.
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Started reading the anthology "Fears: Tales Of Psychological Horror."
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If the first story — which was unintentionally relevant to recent events — is any indication, this is going to be disturbing in the best way possible.

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Started reading Ross Gay's "Catalog Of Unabashed Gratitude: Poems."
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Reads like these were meant to be read aloud. Which is good; I like reading like that.

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Originally written as an online comic, Purpah's "Suitor Armor" is jumping to print with a collection called "Suitor Armor, Volume 1." In this exclusive interview, the author and artist talks about this "fantasy with romance" tale.
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Finished reading the anthology "Thyme Travellers: An Anthology Of Palestinian Speculative Fiction."
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Very interesting, though I wish more had been as -ish as Elise Stephens' excellent "Remembrance In Cerulean."

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Finished reading Richard Wright's "Haiku: The Last Poems Of An American Icon."
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are the only kind of rigidly structured I like, and there were a lot to like in this collection.

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Started reading Megan E. O'Keefe's "The Bound Worlds: Book Three Of The Devoured Worlds."
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Is so far as strong and clever as the first two.

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People used to avoid places where someone was murdered. Now they want to visit as tourists. It's this idea that sets the stage for Shelley Burr's new noir murder mystery thriller novel "Murder Town," which she talks about in this exclusive interview.
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Finished reading Megan E. O'Keefe's "The Fractured Dark: Book Two Of The Devoured Worlds."
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Super good. As gripping as the first book of this epic trilogy. Now to see how this story ends.

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While space may have been the "final frontier" on "Star Trek," they rarely showed people colonizing other worlds. But that's what you get in the sci-fi space Western short story anthology "Last Train Outta Kepler-283c," as editor David Boop explains in this exclusive interview.
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Over the last 15 years, Seb Doubinsky has written 10 novels in his dystopian noir and more series, the "City-States Cycle." But in our new interview about the 10th, the sci-fi and espionage-infused "The Sum Of All Things," he explains how it was going to be the end, but the story had different ideas.
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In my exclusive interview with author (and NASA physicist) Les Johnson, he talks about "Crisis At Proxima," the second book in the hard sci-fi trilogy he's co-writing with Travis S. Taylor.
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After 9 years, my time reviewing games for Common Sense Media has come to an end.

More accurately, their time reviewing games has come to an end.

So, if you know anyone looking for a veteran video game reviewer, please send them my way.

Thank you for your support.

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We all have dreams. Some more realistic than others. Take Pee Wee, the main character in author Tracy Cross' historical fiction horror novella "A Gathering Of Weapons." As Cross explains in this exclusive interview, Pee Wee's dream is to be "…the greatest conjure woman ever." No biggie.
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At a time when you have to actively try not to be reachable, not being able to contact a planet of ten thousand, one that's a year away ...well, that's the idea driving David Wellington's sci-fi horror novel "Revenant-X." To learn more, check out this exclusive interview.
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Started reading Richard Wright's "Haiku: The Last Poems Of An American Icon."
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Was expecting something different, given his background, but it's still interesting so far.

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I'm not one to kink shame, fat shame, or eat shame, but I've never heard of anyone eating a corn dog like it's a popsicle. Or a penis.
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In my new interview with Iraq War veteran turned author Richard Fox about his military science fiction space opera novel "Men Of Bretton," he says he wanted this sci-fi story to show "...how soldiers change during the course of a war and how hard it can be to get home."
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All good places have a dark side, even the warm and sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. Which is what's being explored in the new noir short story anthology "Honolulu Noir." To learn how, check out this exclusive interview with editor Chris McKinney.
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Finished reading Lyndsay Rush's "A Bit Much: Poems."
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While yes, at 271 pages it was "a bit much," and occasionally silly, most of the were super good, so I'll allow it.

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