Feature Discussion: Tim and David give an overview of the book and the plot summaries, while Summer saves most of her commentary for the later dissection of the storytelling style. It’s an engaging space-faring adventure, although it’s easy to see how the writing style could make it harder for those more sophisticated reading tastes to easily become lost in the story if they’re reading them for the first time.
Scott Sigler’s Ancestor on Amazon
April 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Ancestor, the newest book from Scott Sigler, is available now at Amazon.com. Go get it!
KAMN Show #28: A Fire Upon the Deep
March 30, 2007 By 4 Comments
Summer, Dave and Tim give an overview of the story, and discuss some of the more interesting aspects of the book: varying zones of thought dividing up the galaxy, a sentient evil entity and its sentient countermeasure, and a quasi-lupine civilization whose packs are formed from hive minds.
Scott Sigler’s “Ancestor”: The Print Version
March 18, 2007 By 1 Comment
Scott Sigler’s Evil Plan ™ continues to unfold.
He’s passing out the full-length PDF of Ancestor, and wants everyone who wants to get the print version of the book to go to Amazon and order it on April 1st.
Win a Trip to the Nebula Awards in New York
March 17, 2007 By Leave a Comment
ABE Books and The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have just launched a contest where they will be giving a pair of SciFi & Fantasy fans a great fun weekend at the Nebula Awards in New York on May 11-12, 2007. A pair of banquet tickets and two nights in the event hotel will go to the winner.
KAMN Show #26: Far-Seer
February 15, 2007 By 4 Comments
Joe Murphy is back, joining Dave and Summer in the discussion of Robert J. Sawyer’s 1992 novel, Far-Seer. This is the first book in the Quintaglio Ascension trilogy, and it features a planet of intelligent and advanced dinosaurs.
CASFS Book Club
January 22, 2007 By 2 Comments
For those of you living in the Central Arizona area, and if you happen to be free at 7pm on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, you might want to check out the CASFS Book Discussion gathering.
The Lensman series
January 1, 2007 By 5 Comments
KAMN Show #23: Gateway
December 15, 2006 By 10 Comments
The Ninjas discuss Frederick Pohl’s award-winning novel Gateway. Published in 1977, it won the Hugo Award in 1977, and the Nebula and John C. Campbell awards in 1978.
KAMN SE #1: Chat with Steven Gould
December 7, 2006 By 4 Comments
We have a special treat for you KAMN listeners — Steven Gould joins us to talk a little bit more about “Jumper”, his first novel and a recent Ninjas discussion feature.
KAMN Show #21: Jumper
November 15, 2006 By 10 Comments
The Ninjas discuss the 1992 fantasy novel, Jumper by Steven Gould. This is a story that both Summer and Dave have fond memories of reading many years ago when the story was originally published, and time has not diminshed the story.
KAMN Show #19: Ill Met in Lankhmar
October 10, 2006 By 6 Comments
The feature topic for this show is the 1970 fantasy novella, Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber. While chronologically it isn’t the first story featuring Fafhrd and Grey Mouser (that one was “Two Sought Adventure”, published in 1939), it is the first story where they team up and work together. This story also won the Nebula Award in 1970 and the Hugo Award in 1971 for Best Novella.
KAMN Show #17: The Demolished Man
August 29, 2006 By 13 Comments
Summer, Joe and David tackle the first novel to win the Hugo Award, Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man. The story is on the surface a pulp police procedural where a weary yet tenacious detective must catch a killer.
What sets this story apart from typical pulp novels is the incorporation of telepaths and telepathy as integral necessities of society, for business and commerce, lifestyle quality, and for deterring crime.
KAMN Show #15: More Than Human
July 10, 2006 By 6 Comments
Summer, Joe and David reach into the wayback machine and grab an old one off the shelves: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon. A winner of the International Fantasy Award, this story is broken down into three novellas from different perspectives of the creation, growth and maturation of a different kind of human.
For Sale: Faces of Fantasy
July 4, 2006 By Leave a Comment
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