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A bit of a Hard Case Crime kick:

• Lawrence Block's Killing Castro (1961/2009)
• John Lange's Grave Descend (1970 / 2006)
• Richard Powell's Say It with Bullets (1953 / 2006)
• Robert Terrall's Kill Now, Pay Later (1960 / 2007)
• Donald Westlake's The Cutie (1960 / 2009)
• Donald Westlake's Somebody Owes Me Money (1969 / 2008)

We also gave away a copy of Say It with Bullets over on our Facebook page. 'Cause we're nice. (And Jared possibly lost track of which HCC novels he already owns.)

Features included guest blogger Daniel Brown's scrutiny of the works of Mark Chadbourn, Friday Five lists of Awesome Victorians (with special guest Jon "Pax Britannia" Green) and Musicals, and Bex explaining her problems with last week's Doctor Who.

Off the internet, we risked the real world long enough to hear Kim Lakin-Smith speak at the monthly BSFA event. Anne also saw McNulty and Doctor Who giggle about on stage (and, later, witnessed Donna having a spectacular wardrobe malfunction). We also flew through the Stool Pigeon exhibition at Orbital Comics - an array of (slightly disturbing) panels from the free music magazine's past. Sadly, we missed Preacher's Garth Ennis at Forbidden Planet, but still swept in later for a bit of looting.

Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse continues to slouch along towards Bethleham. We had the privilage of announcing two additional contributors this week: Scott Andrews and Louise Morgan. For further updates, sign up to our mailing list - we won't spam you, but the big news goes out to subscribers first.

And speaking of big news, we haven't made any enormous announcements in the past few weeks. Mostly because we've been saving up...