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The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (book review).
One of the pieces of advice often given to aspiring authors is to write about what they know. While this is difficult when…
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Warriors Of The Boundless by Mike Chinn (book review).
Here we have great swords and sorcery adventures. Author Mike Chinn defines the ‘Warriors Of The Boundless’ as ‘endless realms stacked and clustered……
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Citadel Of The Moon (Batrix And Scilli book 2) by Mike Chinn (book review).
A sequel to ‘Hail The New Age’, ‘Citadel Of The Moon’ is another fantasy novel by the very busy Mike Chinn. Again, we…
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The Mile-Long Spaceship by Kate Wilhelm (book review).
Kate Wilhelm’s book, ‘The Mile-Long Spaceship’ is an anthology of eleven of her short stories from the 1950s-60s. The opening story, released in…
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American Movie Comic Books: 1930s-1970s From The Silver Screen To The Printed Page by Peter Bosch (book review).
Writer Peter Bosch explains in his introduction that ‘American Movie Comic Books: 1930s-1970s ‘From The Silver Screen To The Printed Page’ is a…
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The Essential Patricia A. McKillip by Patricia A. McKillip (book review).
‘The Essential Patricia A. McKillip was my introduction to this author. She comes highly recommended, having won several top awards for fantasy novels,…
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Overcaptain (The Saga Of The Recluce book 24) by L.E. Modesitt (book review).
‘Overcaptain’ is the 24th volume in the Saga of Recluce, but fear not, reader. You don’t have to read twenty-three other books to…
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Robot Archie And The World Of The Future by E. George Cowan and Ernest Kearon (graphic novel review).
The second volume of ‘Robot Archie And The World Of The Future’ by writer E. George Cowan and artist Ernest Kearon, although the…
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The Invisibles book 4 by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez and John Stokes (graphic novel review).
When the fourth book of ‘The Invisibles’ arrived, I thought there was a mistake and it was one of its individual issues because…
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The Gift Of Not Belonging by Dr. Rami Kaminski (book review).
I came across this book, ‘The Gift Of Not Belonging’, when reading an interview with its author, Rami Kaminski, in the ‘New Scientist’…
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Lucid: The Dreamwalker book 1 of 3 by Oraine Johnson (book review).
By any standards, ‘Lucid’ is a solid debut novel. While author Oraine Johnson already has an established career in the arts, what he’s…
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Doctor Who: Special Effects by Mat Irvine (book review).
I came across this book, ‘Doctor Who: Special Effects’ by Mat Irvine, on e-auction recently and realised I’d never come across his first…