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Melanie Rae Thon is a master of both the short and long forms of fiction as 'First, Body' and 'Sweet Hearts' aptly demonstrate in re-released digital format.

Tarzan in the City of Gold is a treasure that has been buried in the jungle of the past waiting for a modern-day adventurer to discover and explore it again.

The very recent passing of Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez represents a loss of one the world’s most lyrical novelists. Although he is probably best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude, my personal favorite is Love in the Time of Cholera.

The Simon & Kirby Library: Horror! is a true slice of comic history. In this volume we can see how two remarkable masters of the medium set the conventions that would influence a half-century of graphic storytelling.

To put it simply, 'Anne of Green Gables' was a joy to read. The artwork is beautifully colored and the simple but detailed line drawings have a nostalgic flair that just fits the story perfectly.

Terrence Malick's 'Badlands,' in many ways, feels like the movie that Quentin Tarantino has spent his entire career trying to make. It is an astonishingly confident effort by a first time filmmaker, and one that remains a touchstone for others even decades later.

'Suttree' is arguably as good of a book as 'Blood Meridian,' and for some readers, it may be more palatable than the relentless but beautiful dirge of the latter work. It deserves a place alongside the latter as one of the greatest works of 20th Century American fiction.

Philip K. Dick’s 'The Man in the High Castle' presents an alternative reality in which the Axis powers won World War II and divided most of the world.

In 'Batman: Arkham Asylum,' Batman truly feels like Batman: swinging between overhangs, tracking evidence and confidently taking on half a dozen henchmen at once. This is essentially the closest any normal, non-psychotic person can come at this point to actually being Batman. This game is widely considered a classic already and for good reason. It's superb.

Despite its flaws, The Lathe of Heaven speaks well for Le Guin's longstanding rule as the queen of philosophical science fiction.

Serious fans of fantasy, children's and classic literature really should read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, if they haven't already, as it is part of that wellspring from which all modern fantasy comes from.