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Europe In Autumn by Dave Hutchinson (book review)
Dave Hutchinson’s novella ‘The Push’ was nominated for the BSFA award a couple of years back and was a very fine piece of…
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September 2015
August 2015
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Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
I shared a Table of Contents with Adrian Tchaikovsky in the NewCon Press anthology ‘Looking Landward’ a couple of years ago. His story…
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Worlds Of Edgar Rice Burroughs edited by Mike Resnick and Robert T. Garcia (book review).
I enjoyed the film ‘John Carter’ a lot, even though the critics didn’t seem to like it. I enjoyed it so much in…
July 2015
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Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance Volume Five (book review).
Since I first read ‘Araminta Station’ over 20 years ago, Jack Vance has been one of my favourite authors. I’ve read just about…
June 2015
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Mother Of Eden (book 2) by Chris Beckett (book review)
Chris Beckett’s ‘Dark Eden’ was an excellent novel and my opinion was confirmed by its winning the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The planet…
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Coming Home (Alex Benedict series book 7) by Jack McDevitt (book review).
From the start I should probably make it clear that Jack McDevitt’s ‘Alex Benedict’ books are one of my favourite series, so I…
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Sibilant Fricative by Adam Roberts (book review).
I feel slightly inadequate at the prospect of writing a review of ‘Sibilant Fricative’, a collection of reviews and essays from Adam Roberts.…
May 2015
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Resonance (Ragnorok book 3) by John Meaney (book review).
‘Resonance’ brings John Meaney’s ‘Ragnarok’ trilogy to a conclusion. A multi-stranded historical, contemporary, space opera and far-future epic tying together several viewpoint characters…
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Dark Eden (book 1) by Chris Beckett (book review).
In my 2008 review of Chris Beckett’s Edge Hill prize-winning collection ‘The Turing Test’, I described the short story ‘Dark Eden’ thus: ‘…one…
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The World And The Stars edited by Chris Butler (book review).
I’m sure I won’t be the first person to tell you that anthologies and short story collections are very rarely produced by the…
December 2014
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Voices by Colin P. Davies (book review).
Featuring a stylish cover by Richard Wagner, ‘Voices’ is the second short story collection from Colin P. Davies, whose stories have appeared in…
February 2014
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Freefall by Mercurio D Rivera (book review).
I have read and enjoyed several of Mercurio D Rivera’s ‘Wergen’ stories in ‘Interzone’ over the past few years, so I was very…