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Gospel of $Z$

Man, who knew. This and Dugatti and Del Rio are all a premium, lately. Guess I should have stocked up:

@SGJ72 found a copy of Gospel of Z at bookman's in Tucson, 100 bucks used pic.twitter.com/KCP84uUbBx

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My Star Wars Theory

Or, a missed opportunity? What got me thinking about this was that fish we see Luke carrying in The Last Jedi, that he evidently speared with that super-long spear. That fish that, for a planet that kicks up Thala-sirens (those Suessian things he milks) and frog nuns that look straight out of a live-action Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band—

—is a pretty normal fish:

And by ‘normal’ I mean ‘in keeping with the Earth-fish I know,’ yeah. But? This could of co…

Best of 2019 so far: the January post

( which is IN 2020, but about this December we just had . . . )

https://twitter.com/Qafzeh/status/1206220707798978562?s=20







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Library Journal

Cool starred review:

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LitReactor’s 20 2020 Horror Novels

Fun to say it like that. And, really, it’s Max Booth III’s 20 2020 . . .

https://litreactor.com/columns/the-20-most-anticipated-horror-books-of-2020-0…

Best of 2019

Just like last year, I had this idea that doing a monthly post would make it a snap to figure out my best of the years: just scroll through, it’ll be obvious. I wish. Though it does make it easier to remember stuff from before summer, say. So, without further whatever, and by category, and including stuff I only FOUND in 2019, and just going plural for some instead of staging ties:

NOVELS



not in any order



HORROR MOVIE



easy choice, obvious choice, c’mon. this one’…

Alamo Bookclub

So excellent:

Did you know that Graveyard Shift, @houstonalamo’s weekly horror series, now has a monthly book club? Because it would have made too much sense to do it when he was actually here, we read @SGJ72’s MONGRELS this month. Can’t wait to read his new book with this group thus summer. pic.twitter.com/2ZObHF7F7t

— Robert Saucedo (@robsaucedo2500) December 28, 2019

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Scifi and Scary Review

for The Only Good Indians. Thanks, Tracy:

https://www.scifiandscary.com/
the-only-good-indians-by-
stephen-graham-jones-book-review/…

All the Pretty Lists

No time to thumbnail/preview them (running out the door, in Houston, it’s raining instead of snowing and it’s December, feels like the world’s upside down, and I’m late to a thing to boot…), but here’s some recent ones I caught on Twitter that I’m super honored to have sneaked onto:

http://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2019/12/beckys-top-20-horror-for-libraries-of.htmlhttps://nightworms.com/blogs/news/the-n…

The Truth About Yoda

Reprint of a thing I did . . . in 2017, maybe? Very cool of the very cool Transmotion to run it:

https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/873/1660

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