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The Celtic Riddle

By Lyn Hamilton

There are two types of crime fiction that commonly cop all the literary attention: hardboiled and psychological. Hardboiled fiction is terse and sulphurous, and features the kind of pulpy plots and characters that screenwriters swoon ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Polished Hoe

By Austin Clarke

There are these rum advertisements that have been getting a lot of airplay in the U.K. recently. The commercials are set in a few tropical, sun-bleached locales in the West Indies and the action consists ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Wild West Cookbook

By Cinda Chavich

As a bachelor, I find satisfaction in quickie meals prepared around midnight. By preparation, I mean opening a few cans and producing something only a single man could love, and that hopefully hits all the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Wrap & Roll

By California Culinary Academy

As a bachelor, I find satisfaction in quickie meals prepared around midnight. By preparation, I mean opening a few cans and producing something only a single man could love, and that hopefully hits all the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Seductions of Rice

By Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid

As a bachelor, I find satisfaction in quickie meals prepared around midnight. By preparation, I mean opening a few cans and producing something only a single man could love, and that hopefully hits all the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Heartsmart Flavours of India

By Krishna Jamal

As a bachelor, I find satisfaction in quickie meals prepared around midnight. By preparation, I mean opening a few cans and producing something only a single man could love, and that hopefully hits all the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Tin Fish Gourmet: Great Seafood From Cupboard to Table

By Barbara-jo McIntosh

As a bachelor, I find satisfaction in quickie meals prepared around midnight. By preparation, I mean opening a few cans and producing something only a single man could love, and that hopefully hits all the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Callahan’s Con

By Spider Robinson

For more than a quarter-century, the gang from Callahan’s Place has been facing interplanetary peril, exploring strange new species (and drinks), and pushing the boundaries of physics and fiction alike. Spider Robinson’s ongoing series of ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beholder’s Eye

By Julie E. Czerneda

This is the author’s second science fiction novel for Daw, following A Thousand Words for Stranger. Esen-Alit-Quar is a shape-shifter. The youngest of the five remaining members of her ancient species, she has spent the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pattern Recognition

By William Gibson

It’s a sign of the times that the new novel by sci-fi veteran William Gibson is his first set entirely in the present day. Twenty years ago, Gibson’s Neuromancer – his vision of a globalized ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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