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Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail! is a cross-genre anthology of stories themed around riots, revolts and revolution with a dash of crime and noir thrown in the mix. The book came to my attention because it features a story co-written by Cory Doctorow in addition to contributions by Michael Moorcock and Kim Stanley Robinson, but I’m glad I took the time to check out the rest of the...
When we meet Jimmy Yensid, the hero of Cory Doctorow’s new novella The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, he is aboard his giant mecha and hunting down a wumpus in the abandoned city of Detroit, until he comes under attack from a rival group of mechas. The resulting action scene is spectacular—and really made me want to dig out my ancient Mechwarrior games—but as you’d...
Every time I look through this book, I'm amazed at the sheer amount and quality of material in it, and the scholarly apparatus included with it. As I keep telling people, the last major Proudhon anthology out there -- if you can call it that -- was Stewart Edwards' Selected Writings of P. J. Proudhon. Calling Selected Writings an anthology is generous. Its format was actually...
So I was wondering around my local bookstore looking for holiday gift ideas and simply killing time. I ritually walked past the cookbook section and I saw a little twinkle in the corner of my eye. That twinkle was VEGAN PIE IN THE SKY by vegan cookbook queens Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. I was crazy excited on my discovery because it was a week before Amazon’s labeled...
The Choose Your Own Adventure series comprised a large portion of my childhood reading. There was nothing more exciting than having the fate of say, James Bond, within your page-flipping fingers, and I have found myself longing for adult versions of the reading game. Thankfully, I’m not alone and several clever and fun Choose Your Own Adventure riffs have trickled throughout the...