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A fun space opera crime story that sneaks in a bit of commentary I think it’s telling that both the Legends continuity and the Disney contin...

When we fly through the galaxies, will our worst side come with us? As human civilization broke apart in vaguely defined wars, scattered gro...

Don't take the title literally I must confess I read this book for the title. There is a certain hilarious bluntness in the name Murde...

It's that time of year again (which of course you already know since we've been running these all week long). But ever since 2012, w...

Millennial Noir? Genre fiction is, in a sense, a covenant between writer and reader. The writer agrees to abide by certain conventions...

Grime, Crime and...Magic Low Town is part of a new breed of fantasy: small-scale and urban in focus, and taking cues as much from cri...

Fourth installment in the Rogues anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois I’ll start by saying that of the 4 stor...

A match made in...well, if not heaven, then at least the South Bay Book First of all, I have to preface this by saying Thomas Pynchon...

The other side of Chandler's Los Angeles Regular readers know of my Chandler obsession --the unshakable, near-religious belief tha...

A guy gets drunk in Edinburgh and sometimes he investigates a murder. Black, Tony. Paying for It . New Pulp Press, 2013. I never rea...

The Dead Zone meets No Country For Old Men , plus some Juno thrown in to annoy me Wendig, Chuck. Blackbirds . Angry Robot Books , ...

Today The G--purveyor of nerdliness, genre fanatic and Nerds of a Feather founder/administrator--shares his fantasy-heavy Summer Reading Lis...

Pretty but Uninspiring To feed my borderline unhealthy obsession with True Detective , I tracked down a copy of show creator Nic Pizzo...

Black, Benjamin. The Black-Eyed Blonde [Henry Holt, 2014] I confess that I am a bit of a Raymond Chandler fanatic. I've read each...

Howell, C.J. The Last of the Smoking Bartenders  [ New Pulp Press , 2013] The Meat Tom is on a mission in the desert of the A...

Crichton, Michael (writing as John Lange),  Odds On [ Hard Case Crime ] The Meat  I hate writing bad reviews. I have no illus...