Author name: trishmatson

Educated as a physicist yet living as a journalist, Trish Matson is an award-winning writer and editor whose ever-expanding list of interests includes a lifelong love of SF/F, plus wordplay, libraries, games, music, dancing, audio drama, and podcasting. She’s listed as TrishEM on various fora, but you can find her most easily on Twitter.

Cover of Folklore: A journey through the past and present, by Owen Davies & Ceri Houlbrook, with an old-fashioned font for Folklore, and featuring lots of icons such as brooms, crowns, rings, bows, crosses, buckets, trees, etc.
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Book Review: Folklore, by Davies and Houlbrook

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In Folklore: A Journey through the Past and Present, co-authors Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook take a scholarly but very readable look at British folklore. They convincingly treat folklore as an evolving presence in culture, not just the remnants of a vanished past (and they point out that even a lot of allegedly ancient customs are actually relatively modern). I’m no expert in the subject, but the authors’ broad grasp of the subject and reasoning about its various aspects seem quite sound. I found the book very interesting and often extremely entertaining.

Cover of Angel Maker, by Elizabeth Bear, featuring a woman riding a dun horse while holding a rifle, wearing a high-necked dress with puffed long sleeves; dominating the background behind her is a reel of film. It looks like she has a halo.
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Book Review: Angel Maker, by Elizabeth Bear

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I greatly enjoyed Elizabeth Bear’s first Karen Memery novel, Karen Memory, when it was published in 2014, so when I saw that a new book, Angel Maker, had just been published, I played hooky from my “assigned” Skiffy and Fanty reading/reviewing list and checked it out from the Hoopla library app. Then I realized that this was actually #3, and checked out the intervening short novel Stone Mad from 2018, too. This turned out to be a very entertaining way to spend a couple of low-energy days while sick.

Cover of Hole in the Sky, by Daniel H. Wilson, featuring a dark hole in a light blue sky, with a glowing ball in the center, with clouds streaming in from the edges, floating about green hills.
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Book Review: Hole in the Sky, by Daniel H. Wilson

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Hole in the Sky, by Daniel H. Wilson, is an entertaining, pleasantly eerie, and occasionally scary adventure novel told from four perspectives about what is initially treated as first contact science fiction but is also connected with cosmic horror, and reawakening mythology. It may encourage readers to think a little more about different perspectives, and connecting with others, and even the nature of reality, but mostly it’s a fun page-turner (288 pages, slated for release Oct. 7).

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