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Category: Books & Print

A cast of Marvel superheroes in costume.

Top of the Pile: Inferno, Dark Ages, Ultimate All-New Spider-man

March 15, 2022 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Focus, Top of the Pile

I’m once again caught up on my comic book reading, which means I can actually talk about what’s going on with my beloved X-Men. It also means I have time to delve into Marvel Unlimited looking for some new reads[…]

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Two human figures view an Antarctic landscape.

Off the Bookshelf: Lost Fleet, Lord of Light, Mountains of Madness

February 24, 2022 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Focus, Off the Bookshelf

It’s a cold, dark winter … but this edition of Off the Bookshelf brings a little light, a lot of heroics, and, ok, mountains of madness. Maybe avoid the last one if you’re not in the right headspace… The Lost[…]

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A collection of zine cover art

Zine Month 2022

February 16, 2022 Ken Newquist Book & Print News, Books & Print, Games, Role-Playing Games

It’s February, which means snow, long days that are slowly getting shorter, and zines. So many zines. For the last three years, Kickstarter promoted ZineQuest, a celebration, and promotion of print and PDF zines for role-playing games. This year, Kickstarter[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: Summer’s End 2021

December 1, 2021 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

For the first time in years, I completed my summer reading list during the summer. The final tally was 15 books (11 novels, 3 non-fiction books, 1 short story collection), 2 novellas, and 8 graphic novels. So what were the standouts on this[…]

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A collection of science fiction and fantasy book covers

Summer Reading List 2021

May 27, 2021 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Projects, Reading Lists

Welcome to Nuketown’s 14th annual summer reading list! This year’s list welcomes back Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet series, returns to Iain Bank’s The Culture books, re-reads Richard Adam’s Watership Down and tries out some new series, including Elizabeth Bear’s White Space books and Martha[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: The Ancient Ones, Excession, Wise Man’s Fear

September 9, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

The trailing edge of this summer’s reading list included David Brin’s The Ancient Ones, Iain Bank’s Excession, and Patrick Rothfuss’s The Wise Man’s Fear. It also saw a considerable slow down in my reading pace due to the style of[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: Fall, The Last Emperox, The Dreaming Stars, Auberon, The Bohr Maker

August 5, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

Nuketown’s Summer Reading List for 2020 is in full swing. During my summer vacation at Lake Champlain, I finished up Fall (or Dodge in Hell) and knocked out The Last Emperox, The Dreaming Stars, and Auberon (an Expanse novella). I[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: The Unicorn Project, Bone Silence, Arcana of the Ancients

July 3, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

Nuketown’s summer reading list for 2020 is in full effect. In May and June, I finished two books – The Unicorn Project and Bone Silence – and picked up Arcana of the Ancients, a hefty new science fantasy RPG  sourcebook for my new lunchtime[…]

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Summer Reading List 2020

May 19, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

After last year’s summer reading list took me nine months to complete, I decided to make this year’s list more manageable. I certainly had fun with last year’s list – 19 books, 5 graphic novels – but by summer’s end,[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: The 5th Season, Salvation Lost, Recursion

April 17, 2020 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

Nuketown’s 2019 Summer Reading List is finally complete. After beginning in May 2019, I finally finished the last book on the list – The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin – in February 2020. That left me free to get[…]

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

Radiating from Easton, Pa.

Recent Posts

  • NuketownSF – Cthulhu Awakens, Saving Sanity, Foundation, Giving Back, Clay-O-Rama March 27, 2022
  • RPO Replay: Street Fighter II March 19, 2022
  • RPO Replay: Dungeons of Daggorath March 16, 2022
  • Top of the Pile: Inferno, Dark Ages, Ultimate All-New Spider-man March 15, 2022
  • NuketownSF – The One Ring, Abandoned Places, Futurma, Scrappy Starships, Fake Commutes, Summer Reading March 11, 2022

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