Marvel comics presents the exciting trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men: The Black Vortex This Friday we present you with a sweet crossover event trailer! Marvel Comics has released the following trailer for The Black Vortex –…
“The framing of The Very Best of Kate Elliott is clear: feminist stories featuring a diverse group of female characters presented in a variety of roles and journeys. The most obvious extrapolation here for me given my personal interests…
“As the girls chased her elegant silver-haired bun through Valor’s princely blue arches and murals, they gawked at the once virile visions of princes destroying demons and saving helpless princesses, now flaunting different endings: Snow White smashing out of…
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Book Smugglers Publishing Presents: A Bibliophile Collection Print (& Giveaway)
The Book Smugglers present an exclusive Bibliophile Collection Print (plus a free ebook download – and a giveaway). In 2014, we Book Smugglers embarked on a journey that would expand our repertoire from reviewers to editors and, eventually, publishers.…
SFF in Conversation is a monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe (moderated)…
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Ana here writing from NY where we Book Smugglers are having our first State of the Union meeting of 2015. THE PLANS, THEY HAVE BEEN MADE. But let’s get down to business. Giveaway winners:…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
It’s Friday which means we are over at Kirkus! Today Thea reviews the fourth issue of Vertigo Quarterly CMYK, the Black issue. If you haven’t heard, Vertigo Comics came up with a brilliant anthology concept last year, to release…
It’s that time of year again – awards season is here! Today we will be talking about the Hugo Awards! The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious under the SFF umbrella, and each year the winners are announced…
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Old School Wednesdays: Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising #1) by Susan Cooper
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
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From the Page to the Screen: All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow
Hello everyone! For this edition of From the Page to the Screen, we will discuss All You Need is Kill / Edge of Tomorrow. The official timeline: 2004: the book, All You Need is Kill, a Japanese science fiction…
TIME magazine recently published their lists of Top 100 Young Adult & Top 100 Children’s Books of All Time. The lovely Candlewick Press has 6 titles on the Young Adult list – and they are pretty great and include…
Hello everyone, and Happy Sunday! This week, Thea is preparing for Ana’s visit to NYC, so let’s dive right in, shall we? Around the Interwebs: Charlie Jane Anders named Editor in Chief for io9 – Last week, Annalee Newitz,…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
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Over at Kirkus: Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine
It’s Friday, which means we Book Smugglers are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana, having started the frantic reading for awards season, is talking about a novella by Genevieve Valentine (author of one of Ana’s top of 2014: The Girls…
“It’s still our world down there, Dr. Nelson,” she said, “but that’s like saying that the ice ten thousand feet beneath the arctic icepack is, too. Yeah, it is, but not anything we know. Our government has spent thirty…
10 Rated Books Book Reviews Old School Wednesdays
Old School Wednesdays: Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
The results for our February Old School Wednesdays Readalong are in! After 118 votes, the book we will be reading is HIS MAJESTY’S DRAGON by Naomi Novik. Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as…
Today we are thrilled to be a stop on the blog tour for Inked, the debut speculative fiction young adult novel from Eric Smith! This is no ordinary blog tour post – because today not only do we get…
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A Smugglerific Cover (& Giveaway): The Wand & the Sea by Claire M Caterer
Today we are delighted to unveil the cover for a middle grade novel, The Wand & the Sea by Claire M Caterer! BEHOLD! The smugglerific cover! About the Book A year has passed since Holly and Ben Shepard have…
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! Thea is having a good time in Sunny California and I am here in the COLD AND WINDY WINTER OF ENGLAND. Not that I am bitter or anything. Anyhoodles, moving on! Free Ebooks and…
It’s Friday, which means we Book Smugglers are over at Kirkus! Today, Thea is list-making (yes, yes, again) – this time with horror on the high seas in mind. After reading The Deep by Nick Cutter (author of The…
Half-Resurrection Blues is Daniel José Older’s first novel and the start of the Bone Street Rumba series. The writing, the humour, the main character’s deeply felt sense of loneliness and the diversity of the world are praiseworthy. Title: Half-Resurrection…
As you probably know by now, Old School Wednesdays is a new weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when we were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and…
SFF in Conversation is a monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our vision is to create a safe (moderated)…