Posts tagged: john scalzi

The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Dawnbreaker, His Father's Eyes, Waterborne Exile, and The End of All Things

Posted on 2015-09-15 at 02:03 by angelablackwell

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Review of Dawnbreaker: Legends of the Duskwalker Book Three by Jay Posey (Angry Robot Books, August  4, 2015)

This is the third volume of Cass and Wren’s story. This time they spend much of the story apart, so we have separate narratives. Wren leaves Greenstone with Three’s training brother Haiku and goes off to the tower where they live in order to be trained. He learns a great deal from Three’s teacher but most of what he learns is about himself. He becomes more confident and secure in himself and much

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Posted in The Exploding Spaceship | Tagged david b coe, jay posey, john scalzi

Friday Quick Updates, Thursday edition: A weekend of Swanwick ahead, but first: Noir at the Bar, Valerie Nieman, and award and crowdfunding news

Posted on 2015-08-13 at 20:42 by montsamu

Thursday, August 13, 2015: I really should have done this yesterday so as to include the John Scalzi reading at Quail Ridge Books, but if I had, the standing-room-only crowd as pictured by Monica Byrne may well have been out the door, and Jay Posey's Twitter quip about the length of the signing line may well have been a truth stranger than fiction. So instead, it's a Thursday edition of "Friday Quick Updates", to remind folks of not one but two fantastic events tonight, ahead of an extended weekend which

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Posted in Friday Quick Updates | Tagged john scalzi, kickstarter, michael swanwick, noir at the bar, parsec awards

Coming to Town: John Scalzi for The End of All Things at Quail Ridge Books

Posted on 2015-08-10 at 15:54 by montsamu

John Scalzi is getting to be quite the regular visitor to the Triangle area on his book tours, as we've been fortunate enough to have him come to town on his The Human Division tour in 2013 and not one but two stops on his Lock In tour in 2014, and! of course, his Guest of Honor stint this past May at ConCarolinas. And now! To promote the release of his 11th novel The End of All Things, Scalzi is on tour again, and once again it's Raleigh's Quail Ridge Books which is playing host. So, for those in the

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Posted in Coming to Town | Tagged john scalzi, quail ridge books

Friday Quick Updates: Richard Dansky's Vaporware; Animazement; and (this Wednesday) John Scalzi

Posted on 2013-05-24 at 15:06 by montsamu

Friday Quick Updates for Friday, May 24, 2013:

Durham author Richard Dansky's new novel Vaporware is now out from JournalStone! Congrats, Rich. I've been re-posting a few of the blurbs and guest posts and interviews about the book over on the Bull Spec Facebook and Twitter pages, so go check out this book about a video game project that refuses to be cancelled.

Locals Mark Van Name, Mur Lafferty, and Meagen Voss (among others) are heading up to Baltimore for Balticon this Memorial Day weekend, but here in

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged animazement, john scalzi, vaporware