Books

‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Here Be Monsters’ (2000) (Book review)

“Here Be Monsters” (June 2000) is the most padded “Buffy” novel so far, but the meat of Cameron Dokey’s debut effort is pretty decent. Once

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Prime Evil’ (2000) (Book review)

Diana G. Gallagher’s “Prime Evil” (March 2000) is a game-changer for the “Buffy” book series – not because it’s significantly better than other books (although

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Preston & Child get their groove back with ‘City of Endless Night’ (Book review)

After the often credulity-stretching “Obsidian Chamber” (2016), Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child get back on track with “City of Endless Night” (January, hardcover), their 17th

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Deep Water’ (2000) (Book review)

Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman, who showed promise with their first “Buffy” YA novel, “Visitors,” step up slightly with “Deep Water” (February 2000), although

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Resurrecting Ravana’ (2000) (Book review)

This might sound like an odd statement, but Ray Garton writes a pretty darn good “Buffy” novel despite having a tenuous grasp of the show.

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Power of Persuasion’ (1999) (Book review)

Elisabeth Massie connects on some things and misses on others in her first and only entry in the “Buffy” young-adult line, “Power of Persuasion” (October

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All 10 short stories from ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,’ ranked

Even if you’ve watched Amazon Prime’s “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams,” you still don’t know the 10 short stories they came from. The teleplay writers

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Unnatural Selection’ (1999) (Book review)

I’ll have good things to write about Mel Odom’s Buffyverse work when I get to the “Angel” novels, but he makes an inauspicious debut with

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Visitors’ (1999) (Book review)

After the “Buffy” novels split into adult and young-adult lines in late 1998, “Visitors” (April 1999) relaunched the YA line. At 163 pages, and without

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Blooded’ (1998) (Book review)

Although “Blooded” (August 1998) is the fourth original young-adult “Buffy” novel, it’s possibly the book that inspired the publisher, Pocket Books, to split the title

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