Category: Books

Ian Fleming Interviews Raymond Chandler for the BBC That’s the only known recording of Chandler‘s voice. How cool is that? Phillip Marlowe‘s creator being interviewed by James Bond‘s creator. Chandler is getting on in years in this interview, and he comes across as a kinda-drunk cranky old man, but with a razor-sharp mind. It’s pretty awesome. And it’s a goldmine… Read more →

Actually the proper title of the work is “JOHN GEORGE HOHMAN’S POW-WOWS; OR, LONG LOST FRIEND A COLLECTION OF MYSTERIOUS AND INVALUABLE ARTS AND REMEDIES, FOR MAN AS WELL AS ANIMALS. WITH MANY PROOFS Of their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases, etc., the greatest part which was never published until they appeared in print for the first time in… Read more →

So you’re a horse girl, he says, smiles as though we are somehow afflicted, somehow convergent with dark rutted fantasy. Yes, we are the ones who dream in pale sparrow grass, who tick our tongues at the sunfisher, climb on, barely breathing, knowing fear could fill a field, snap a spine like tinder. We ride bareback to watch the boys… Read more →

To go along with the expensive limited editions and whatnot that I have been (and will be) talking about, I thought I should take a moment to point out some good books that you can get FOR FREE. For the science fictionally inclined among you, the first free book is Peter Watt‘s Blindsight: Available Free Here! Now, I have a… Read more →

Extracted from a lovely rantBy the way, I feel like that rant has nothing to do with me: I only read things I think I’ll enjoy, or am enjoying. I get almost no output from the Big Two, and what I do get tends to be from their boutique labels–and if I stop enjoying it, I stop buying it. at… Read more →

Somedays it feels like a full-time job to keep up with all the interesting new releases from the various small presses, and by the various authors I feel the need to collect. Some other days, though, it’s just like Christmas. Today is one of those days. It started with a new email from Subterranean Press, announcing Ted Chiang‘s forthcoming book… Read more →

Let’s start off today’s list of linked content with another Alan Moore item. You know we have a lot of use for Alan Moore here at Homo Sum. This is a three-part podcast interview with Moore over at the Resonance FM weekly show “I’m ready for my close up“. Part One Part Two Part Three I always enjoy hearing Moore… Read more →

Since I am drowning in work during the run-up to my Australian trip, I’m going to cheat tonight and in lieu of actual content instead post a series of videos that have a connection to books. Read more →

Charlie Huston writes hardboiled crime, vampire noir, and apparently some superhero comics too. I like the crime, and I even enjoyed the vampire noir–despite my general emargo on any vampire-related fictionThere are, of course, exceptions for very high quality writing, like Fevre Dream, Agyar, or Blindsight. Just keep away Rice, Hamilton, and their kind please. or so. I just found… Read more →

HBO turns ‘Fire’ into fantasy series HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fantasy series “A Song of Fire and Ice” into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. … The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for… Read more →

SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson’s best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is… Read more →