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From the monthly archives:
January 2008
Rudy Rucker obviously has something up his sleeve. Throughout his literary career, he has explored a huge variety of times and places, and his speculative skills are honed to the point that I’m starting to think that they aren’t speculation: Rudy Rucker is a dimensional wanderer, able to explore the possibilities of the past, present and future on a whim.
Submitted for your perusal: POSTSINGULAR, Rucker’s latest novel. Science-fiction enthusiasts will be familiar with the concept of the Singularity, a technological change so swift and drastic that it makes society completely unrecognizable to those living before it came to pass. This concept is pretty much a double-dog dare to any futurist worth his salt, because the gist of it is that nobody (not even you, Rucker) can imagine such an event. Rucker is one of the very few authors – along with Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross – to shoulder this challenge and completely succeed.
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Hawkman swooped onto the scene in the first issue of FLASH COMICS in 1939. He was Carter Hall, an American collector of ancient weapons who one day discovered that he was also the reincarnation of an Egyptian prince named Khufu.
There was, of course, a lot of backstory generated between the debut of the character and the end of his first series of adventures in 1951, but none of it has much to do with SHOWCASE PRESENTS HAWKMAN: VOLUME 1, because the character – as presented in this collection – is the rebooted version from 1961.
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Death is the theme for this week’s cheery column. It’s all about being killed. Okay, actually it’s just a cheap reason to use three books with a death motif, plain and simple.
DEATH TRICK by J. F. Burke – What seems to be just a run-of-the-mill detective novel is even less that what it seems. This 1975 effort is the second of the Sam Kelly novels, which is a big problem since you are constantly hit over the head with reference to events of the first book. Not only does it assume you’ve read that one, but it keeps a key piece of information from new readers, certain to leave you confused until about the last third.
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The inimitable Darwyn Cooke showcases the best of his work in the Batman world in BATMAN: EGO AND OTHER TAILS. Given that this collection contains his acclaimed CATWOMAN: SELINA’S BIG SCORE graphic novel in its entirety, plus several more stories should be all the reason you need to buy.
Not only his first Batman story, but also his first work for DC, the BATMAN: EGO one-shot kicks off the book. It’s an unexpectedly dark tale of The Dark Knight battling – at least verbally – his own ego, here rendered as a bat-eared shadow with horrendous teeth. Batman wonders if he shouldn’t just throw in the cowl and call it quits; his ego urges him to go the extra mile and end it all.
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