Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Thursday, August 19, 2021

The Novella Files: Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw

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Subject: Cassandra Khaw.  Nothing But Blackened Teeth [Nightfire, 2021] Accolades: N/A Genre: Horror Executive Summary:   A Heian-era mansio...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Stranger than Fiction: Tokyo Vice, by Jake Adelstein

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If this is really what (being a reporter in) Japan is like, I’d rather be cleaning (or living in) a toilet! Adelstein, Jake. Tokyo Vice:...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Microreview [book]: Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, by Sequoia Nagamatsu

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Its greatest fault: being too short to develop its tantalizing ideas/relationships further! Nagamatsu, Sequoia. Where We Go When All W...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Summer Reading List 2016: Zhaoyun

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Zhaoyun’s Totally Reasonable Summer Reading List, 2016 Edition Summer is here, and that means fond memories of long-ago encounters w...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Best Cinematic Comic Adaptation Tournament (Final Four)

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By virtue of what I will assume was a generational divide, Jack Nicholson's Joker dropped Heath Ledger's Joker into a vat of Smilex ...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Best Cinematic Comic Adaptation Tournament (Round 3)

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And then there were eight. Or, seven really, since there are two Batmen (Batmans?) at this table. I have to admit personally I'm very ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

CYBERPUNK REVISITED: Johnny Mnemonic

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Dossier – Longo, Robert. Johnny Mnemonic (1995). Filetype – film (of sorts). File under  – cyberpunk derivative  (but also...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Microreview [book]: The Burning Dark, by Adam Christopher

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Great Fun Slightly Marred by TMDI Christopher, Adam. The Burning Dark . Tor Books (paperback/Kindle): March 2015. Buy it here ...