Posts published in: 2013/03
Announcement: The third annual Bull Spec summer speculative fiction event!
Posted on 2013-03-29 at 19:26 by montsamu
March 29, 2013, DURHAM, NC -- Bull Spec is delighted to announce its third annual summer speculative fiction event, to be held Saturday August 3, 2013 at Quail Ridge Books & Music in Raleigh, NC from 7 to 9 pm. The event series once again hosts a selection of Wofford College's Shared Worlds Teen Writing Summer Camp visiting writers, headlined by Mythopoeic and William L. Crawford Award-winning author Karen Lord -- who is traveling from Barbados -- and including Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Will Hindmarch
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Friday Quick Updates: Ursula Vernon tonight! Then: ConTemporal at UNC-TV, Jeaniene Frost, and Richard Case
Posted on 2013-03-22 at 19:37 by montsamu
Before I get to the imminently forthcoming events, I have to take a quick moment to thank Jaym Gates again for putting the April 23 World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec Launch Party extravaganza together. It's going to be a great lineup of game designers and writers, authors, translators, and a huge crew of Bull Spec #8 contributors, and I hope a whole lot of you (and your friends and random strangers!) help make it a great night. (And it will be good to see Jaym again after far too
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Announcement: World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec #8 Launch Party!
Posted on 2013-03-22 at 2:14 by montsamu
North Carolina Speculative Fiction Night
Presented by Bull Spec Magazine
Hosted by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and Jaym Gates
Celebrating World Book Night, North Carolina Authors, and Bull Spec Magazine
Atomic Empire, 7pm, Tuesday, April 23, 2013
3400 Westgate Drive, Suite 14B
Durham, NC 27707
Special Guests
Rich Dansky, Steve Long, Justin Achilli, Matthew Ross
Bull Spec Magazine Contributors
Gwendolyn Clare, Rich Matrunick, Brenda Kalt, Peter Wood and Paul Celmer, Alice Holleman
Join fellow writers, artists
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The Exploding Spaceship Middle Grades Family Reading Edition: Review of Mirage by Jenn Reese
Posted on 2013-03-20 at 4:22 by angelablackwell
Review of Mirage by Jenn Reese (Candlewick Press, March 5, 2013).
Mirage is the second volume of the Above World middle grades science fiction series by Jenn Reese.
Most middle grades books in the science fiction and fantasy area are fantasy; an actual science fiction adventure without fantasy elements is rare. This series is science fiction set on an Earth where groups of humans were adapted for different extreme environments because of planet-wide ecological issues. Different groups of people live
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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews The Golden Age of Death by Amber Benson
Posted on 2013-03-18 at 4:2 by angelablackwell
Review of The Golden Age of Death by Amber Benson (Ace Feb 26, 2013)
This is the fifth volume of Amber Benson’s stories about Calliope Reaper-Jones (Callie), the daughter of the Grim Reaper. The Reaper himself is deceased, making Callie the CEO of his company Death, Inc. Callie is like many 20-somethings, with worries about her job and its future, her family and her boyfriend.
However, her job is now to be Death and to survive the attacks of the ender of Death who killed her father. When the situation
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Friday quick updates: Big event announcements, The Court of Air, book groups, ConTemporal visits UNC-TV, and more
Posted on 2013-03-15 at 17:4 by montsamu
First, two major event announcements, in brief as we're still working on the full write-ups for both. But, since beans are spilling left and right:
- Tuesday, April 23, 7 to 9 pm: Durham's Atomic Empire (formerly Sci-Fi Genre Comics & Games) hosts a World Book Night / NC Speculative Fiction Night / Bull Spec #8 Launch Party! Confirmed participants include Richard Dansky, Steve Long, Justin Achilli, Jaym Gates, Matthew Ross, and Bull Spec #8 contributors Gwendolyn Clare, Rich Matrunick, Brenda Kalt, Alice
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The Exploding Spaceship Teen Family Reading Edition: Review of The Cadet of Tildor
Posted on 2013-03-15 at 3:26 by angelablackwell
Review of The Cadet of Tildor by Alex Lidell
The Cadet of Tildor is a new Penguin teen fantasy book which came out January 10, 2013.
This is a teen coming-of-age tale featuring a female military academy cadet named Renee de Winter. She is a nobleman’s daughter who wants to prove her place is with the elite soldiers, she tries her hardest to survive to graduation even when downgraded on her fighting skills. Will she be one of the two cadets cut at the end of the term?
Renee is a small, quick female
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Friday Quick Updates: Kotecki/McHugh at Quail Ridge, new James Maxey audiobook, a new monthly sf reading group, and ConTemporal visits UNC-TV
Posted on 2013-03-08 at 17:46 by montsamu
Well, another Friday has come around, and while there's "only" one event on my calendar this weekend (Nathan Kotecki and PT McHugh at Quail Ridge Books on Saturday at 3 pm) there's some other things to report as well:
- James Maxey is interviewed on Gail Z. Martin's Ghost in the Machine Podcast
- Maxey's first Dragon Age novel, Bitterwood, is now out in audiobook format
- There's a new monthly sf reading and discussion group starting up, to be held every third Thursday of the month at Raleigh's NC Museum of
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The Exploding Spaceship Release Day Edition Review of Shadow of Freedom and A Few Good Men
Posted on 2013-03-05 at 21:39 by angelablackwell
Review of David Weber's Shadow of Freedom
This is the newest Honor Harrington book, but since this volume depicts events which are occurring simultaneously with those in A Rising Thunder (the previous volume), Honor herself is not present.
The story in Shadow of Freedom is told from three main viewpoints: Michelle Henke and various components of her Tenth Fleet, Anton Zilwicki and Victor Cachat plus their shipmates, and the Mesan Alignment headquarters personnel. We see how Anton and Victor make the
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Friday Quick Updates: Ariel Djanikian, David Drake, Unpublished Games, StellarCon, ...
Posted on 2013-03-01 at 19:57 by montsamu
Even if you're not heading over to StellarCon today (or Saturday, or Sunday) there's enough to do in the Triangle this weekend to make a mini-con of it without straying too far from US-15/501. Meanwhile!
- Mur Lafferty's superhero novel Playing For Keeps is in the "Bundle of Holding", a pay-what-you-want, DRM-free bundle of fiction ebooks from a big list of RPG writers including Mur, Matt Forbeck, Chuck Wendig, and more. Check it out: http://murverse.com/playing-for-keeps-in-the-bundle-of-holding/
- Andy