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Month Of June 47

Books that have aroused KindleClay’s interest. Notable or noted works that we are either reviewing this month or have heard great things about. Check this section often.

Wilde Stories 2010: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

July 1, 2011
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I’m quite thrilled that there is an anthology of gay science fiction, fantasy and horror. This is the series 3rd year by Editor Steve Berman and if some of these 12 stories are any barometer of future editions we will be well pleased. As mentioned on KindleClay for the book, Wilde Stories 2010 was...
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Justice

July 1, 2011
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Justice

I liked the plot, I liked the twists, and I LOVE the last line. (I cannot quote it since it is not published yet, besides, it would spoil things). You'll just have to read it to find out. Don't look, just read the book because it won't mean anything unless you do. So, the premise...
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Excerpts (1): Pattern Recognition

June 29, 2011
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Excerpts (1): Pattern Recognition

Someone who, for some reason, is opting to produce and release very unconventional material in a very unconventional way. Someone with the clout to keep it quiet.” “You buy it?” “No.” “Why not?” “How much time have you spent with the actual footage?” “Not much.” “How do you feel when you watch it?” He...
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The Postmortal

June 29, 2011
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The Postmortal

Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors. Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, The Postmortal is an unforgettable...
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Pattern Recognition

June 27, 2011
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Pattern Recognition

Gibson's highly acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling novel is the story of a trend predictor in London who's offered a job to find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet--footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Union Atlantic

June 24, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Union Atlantic

So it’s with surprise, even incredulity, that you grasp, as you read Adam Haslett’s first novel, that this book, set chiefly in 2002, not only tucks 9/11 into its narrative in an uncowed, offhand way but, to an extent, leaves it behind.
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The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies

June 23, 2011
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The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies

The editors, Phil and Sarah Stokes, who operate the official Clive Barker website, have spent the past several years compiling these 100 separate pieces to produce a truly definitive work. This collection features a new foreword by Barker, an introduction by the Stokes, and new illustrations by Barker. The numbered and lettered edition will...
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards: Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

June 22, 2011
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Winner 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards:  Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories

It is hard to know what to make of this book. Sandra MacDonald's collection of fourteen loosely interconnected stories has runaway kids and collapsible orchestras, lovesick cowboys and Walt Whitman, slave religions and talking corpses, fantasy firemen mascots and slush from the Vietnam war. The stories are set on a nineteenth to twentieth century...
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Brass Man

June 21, 2011
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Brass Man

What constitutes intelligence? What is the relationship between intelligence and morality (if, indeed, there is any at all)? No one can read Neal Asher’s epic Brass Man without pondering these questions.
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Madame Bovary

June 20, 2011
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Madame Bovary

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery.
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