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Category: Books & Print

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Building Nuketown’s 2018 Summer Reading List

May 7, 2018 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

After a winter spent recovering from a broken ankle, and a spring dominated by recovering from said broken ankle, summer is looking very appealing. So is my summer reading list, which I’ve been slowly compiling throughout the long, cold winter (and second[…]

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Two teams of costumed superheroes confront each other, Inhumans on the left, X-men on the right.

Top of the Pile: Inhumans vs. X-Men

December 27, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

Inhumans vs. X-Men, the fight brewing since Marvel’s two main timelines collapsed into one during 2015’s Secret Wars, finally happened. The story lacks the high-stakes punch of Avengers vs. X-Men but this gives it the flexibility to tell a better story. The catalyst[…]

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A woman holds an enormous blade while standing against a fantastic, pillar-filed landscape.

Nuketown’s Winter 2017 Reading List

December 15, 2017 Ken Newquist Books & Print, Reading Lists

Christmas vacation is coming up and bringing with it a glorious week filled with family, gifts, and lots of reading. I’ve compiled a winter reading list for the break, which is similar to my traditional summer reading lists except the[…]

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Off the Bookshelf: Project Nemesis, Strange Dogs, Valiant Dust

December 13, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

It’s been a slow couple of months for book reading as I’ve been focusing on knocking down my pile of comic books. Since my summer reading list ended back in September I’ve read two books and a novella, but the break gave me[…]

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The Avengers team stands ready for their next assignment.

Top of the Pile: An Uncanny Holiday

December 1, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

My pile of unread comic books is huge. So huge that I spent the last two Thanksgiving breaks whittling it down to a reasonable size. Those efforts are working; after spending a good chunk of the long Thanksgiving weekend reading[…]

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A beautiful sunset filled with tinges of orange, red, and yellow. A baseball field appears in the foreground; a large tree is silhouetted off to the right in the background

Off the Bookshelf: Summer’s End

September 25, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

The final third of my summer reading list proved to be more challenging than I expected, mostly because of the amount of time I spent on Kim Stanley Robinson’s dense-but-enjoyable 2312. The book dominated my August, and forced me to[…]

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Covers of graphic novels from the B.P.R.D. and Hellboy series.

Top of the Pile: Summer 2017

September 9, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Top of the Pile

My Summer Reading List for 2017 included eight graphic novels drawn from the Hellboy universe. Hellboy and his friends have featured prominently in my summer reading list for the last decade, and I expect that to continue to be the case going forward.[…]

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Adirondack chairs gathered around a firepit near a lake.

Off the Bookshelf: Mid-Summer 2017

August 1, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

I tore through the heart of my summer reading list in July, knocking out six novels in a month. Four of these were read during my family’s annual week-long vacation to Lake Champlain. I probably could have read more if we’d spent[…]

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A photo of the Kindle cover for Thrawn, with the Jersey shore in the background.

Off the Bookshelf: Early Summer 2017

July 1, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Off the Bookshelf

I got a respectable jump on my Summer Reading List for 2017 in late May and June, reading five books by June 30 (though I got in the last one, Revenger, with only a few hours to spare). It was[…]

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Summer Reading List 2017

June 15, 2017 Ken Newquist Book & Print Columns, Books & Print, Reading Lists

Welcome to Nuketown’s 10th annual summer reading list! As with previous years, this year’s list is heavy on space opera and military science fiction, but includes a smattering of fantasy. It includes 17 novels, 1 novella, and 8 graphic novels.[…]

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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.

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