Rosalind Faires' Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019

Here’s to a year of rollicking adventures, laughing, weeping, and rooting for those crazy kids to wind up together in the end

"...1) GIDEON THE NINTH (Tor.com) The bone-dry humor, the bonkers imagination, the enemies-to-allies-to-heartache of..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

Austin Playhouse's The Norwegians

C. Denby Swanson's comedy with nice hit men is a blast of cool fun, with a hint of danger just below the ice

"...Tor (Michael Stuart) and Gus (J. Ben Wolfe) are hit..."

Oct. 30, 2015 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Behind Locked Doors

Tor Johnson in a Forties noir? Directed by Budd Boetticher, the director of Westerns like The Cimarron Kid and The Tall T? Believe it.

"...Boetticher (1948); with Richard Carlson, Lucille Bremer, Douglas Fowley, Tor Johnson, Thomas Browne Henry...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Feds Take Wind Out of Dread Pirate Roberts' Sails

Ex-Austinite accused of being one of the Internet's biggest crime lords

"...Ulbricht set up Silk Road on The Onion Router (TOR), an Internet network designed to make it basically impossible..."

Oct. 11, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

LoneStarCon 3: The Jo Walton Interview

The Hugo-winning author of 'Among Others' really loves books

"...fervent admiration from a wider readership attracted to its narrator: a prickly, wounded loner who wastes no time on..."

Aug. 30, 2013 Books Post by Amy Gentry

Review: Austin Playhouse's The Norwegians

Revised revisiting of this dark comedy remains a guilty pleasure

"...on Broadway who identified as LGBTQIA+ were portrayed by actors who did not. And for decades, the vast majority..."

Sept. 29, 2023 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Silk Road

Story of the Dread Pirate Roberts versus the FBI falls into bothsidesisms

"...Silk Road, the notorious online drug marketplace, was the brainchild of Ross Ulbricht,..."

Feb. 26, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Book Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells

In this first full-length novel featuring Murderbot, the violent but endearing rogue AI is back for more adventures to delight "all the stupid humans"

"...Readers who haven't found a science-fiction story to their liking before: I know we nerds keep..."

July 31, 2020 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Peached Tortilla’s Cookbook Can Make You a Dinner Party Star

Explore Asian comfort food from Tokyo to Texas

"...As a longtime habitué of the Peached Tor­tilla, I was excited to get a glimpse of Eric..."

May 3, 2019 Food Feature by Emily Beyda

Nisi Shawl Is Crossing the Streams of Fantastical Fiction

The Tiptree-winning author brings her new alt-history to the ATX

"...Malvern Books is a bookstore on 29th Street in Austin, Texas, where you can..."

Sept. 7, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

In Real Life: Cory Doctorow

Wearing goggles or not, he's in town for the Texas Teen Book Festival

"...Award-winning author, cyber-activist, and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow is coming to the Texas Teen Book..."

Oct. 15, 2014 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

2014 Austin City Limits Music Festival Line-up

Hip-hop tops the two weekends with ladies close behind

"...debut in 2012, as well as Riders Against the Storm, last month’s Austin Music Awards winner for Band of..."

April 22, 2014 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

Feds Take Wind Out of Dread Pirate Roberts' Sails

Austinite accused of being one of Internet's biggest crime lords

"...Dallas. According to an interview he did for NPR's StoryCorps project, Ulbricht moved to San Francisco to work at..."

Oct. 3, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Blitzkid Bop: Austin Kiddie Limits

"...Covert has led his group Ralph's World into Grammy-nominated territory over the course of eight albums and a nation-spanning..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Reefer Roundup: 6/17/11

Your drug war news, all in one place

"...Against Prohibition, a group of former police, federal agents, prosecutors and judges who have had enough of the status..."

June 17, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

Bedside Manner: Before the Fall

Browsing the stacks

"...in the Southwest. Since Rankin retired his Edinburgh-based Detective Inspector John Rebus in Exit Music, the last of the..."

March 28, 2011 Books Post by Nick Barbaro

Deep Inside: Extreme Erotic Fantasies

While Polly Frost certainly borders on science fiction as much as the supernatural, she keeps slash out, paranormal in, and takes the one-handed read to another level altogether

"...Deep Inside: Extreme Erotic Fantasiesby Polly Frost Tor Books, 272 pp., $12.95..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe

Shriek: An Afterword

VandeerMeer first introduced Ambergris in an intriguing series of novellas, collected as City of Saints and Madmen. This is his first full-length novel set in the mythical city.

"...Tor, 352 pp., $24.95 Jeff VanderMeer's wildly inventive new novel..."

June 30, 2006 Books Review by Rick Klaw

A Different Kind of World

Comics legend Joe Kubert talks about his life as it was and as it might have been

"...the Flash in the 1940s, his Stone Age hero Tor in the Fifties, the war heroes Sgt. Rock and..."

Nov. 5, 2004 Books Feature by Robert Faires

Book Review

"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is not for everyone," Rick Whitten-Klaw writes of Cory Doctorow's debut novel. "If you prefer your literature linear or your ideas staid, then give this one a pass."

"...Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow..."

March 7, 2003 Books Feature by Rick Whitten-Klaw

Upcoming ...

We want you to know all about authors' activities in and around Austin

"...Saturday, Nov. 9, 3pm: Jonathan Carroll. His White Apples (Tor, $24.95) is reviewed online by our Ric Williams at..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

White Apples

Jonathan Carroll brings his White Apples to BookPeople on Saturday, Nov. 9, 3pm. Ric Williams brings you his review of it.

"...Tor, 304 pp. $24.95..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Books Review by Ric Williams

The Land of Laughs

"...Tor, 253 pp., $13.95 (paper)..."

April 13, 2001 Books Review by Shannon McCormick

Haranguing the Hugos

"...Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer Tor, $5.99 paper..."

July 30, 1999 Books Feature by Adrienne Martini

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

"...few films have ever delved so deeply into the tortured psyche of Wood as this comprehensive look, which includes..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ed Wood

This biographical film is charming, melancholy, strange, and quirkily humorous. There's also a certain irony in giving the silver-screen treatment to the most infamous of bargain-basement directors and his motley crew of hangers-on.

"...Who would have thought, years ago, that someday grade-z director Edward D. Wood, Jr. and his motley crew of..."

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Without a Face

"...Pretty boys can act screams this movie, Mel Gibson's directorial debut in which he also stars. (Yeah right, and..."

Aug. 27, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Raul's in Overdrive: "AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!"

In 1978, visits from Patti Smith and Elvis Costello plus the Austin Punk Scene’s first record could mean “AUSTIN IS UN-MELLOWING OUT!”

"...Editor’s note: This is Chapter 6, Part 2 of a..."

Dec. 30, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Redistricting: Now, The Fun Begins!

Upcoming opportunities to give public input to Lege, city map-makers

"...– led in Texas by former Annie's List Political Director Genevieve Van Cleve (vancleve@redistrictingaction.org) – has been working to..."

Sept. 10, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

These Five Last-Minute Gift Ideas Might Be the Best You’ll Ever See

Because, frankly, most other listicles like this are boring AF

"...Easier to care for, too, which is a big factor even in these more-time-at-home days. (Also, if we see..."

Dec. 21, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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