Any rising genre ends up getting attacked after it gets to a certain level of popularity/notoriety. Remember all the debate about Paranorma...

I was very happy so many people decided to participate in the polls I ran last week. A few more would give a better basis for analysis, but...

You'll notice two polls in the upper right. Yesterday's cover post made me think about this since it was the first non-genre cover ...

This has been a long time coming. Ever since I flew the coop and had a place of my own to live I've been amassing books. A few at first ...

In my recent procurement post the other day I mentioned my desire to buy Gene Wolfe's Shadow & Claw in a bookstore instead of onl...

Okay, firstly I should say I'm not the biggest King fan.  Not that I don't like his work.  I, like most people have read more than a...

According to the Associated Press : The Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they ge...

I saw quite a few bloggers participating in this reading meme from Book Blogger Appreciation Week including Fantasy Cafe and Only the Best...

Book Expo has now posted a whole bunch of the discussions taped at the show here .  During my trip to BEA I really wanted to go to the Sci-f...

I began this article after I was trying to pick out my vacation to read pile. I've since changed my stance a little as will be evident f...

I'm always intrigued by the differences between covers whether it be US vs. UK or Hardcover vs. Paperback. Below are a couple that caugh...

One of my entries for Orbit's The Worst Ever Cover Contest made it to the final five. I guess that means I know a thing or 2 about bad S...

I think my mail person hates me or at least the number of packages I get. Pyr has answered my call for some new sci- fi with The Quiet War...

Trial of Flowers by Jay Lake is available as a downloadable ebook from Night Shade Books. There are also a couple other Jay Lake stories av...

There is a lot brewing on this end so I thought I'd share what is to come here on Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review over the ...

This is from a challenge from Larry over at Of Blog of the Fallen : What are 10 speculative fiction (the definition of which is left up to ...

Neth's posting alerted me to this one. I actually took this over a week ago, but after first seeing the results I didn't agree. Re-...

Martin recently comment about his progress with A Dance With Dragons : "I almost hate to say anything here, for fear of jinxing it... b...

Starting in mid-2010 we will have all-new episodes of FUTURAMA to enjoy on Comedy Central. This goes to show that Fox doesn't really kn...

A little while back I was following a post and comments at Tor about What Books Haven't You Read? The post mostly got involved with cl...