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Blindspace by Jeremy Szal (book review).
Jeremy Szal’s action-packed debut novel ‘Stormblood’ exploded onto the scene last year, introducing us to alien-DNA-infected, ex-soldier Vakov Fukasawa. After agreeing once more…
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December 2021
September 2021
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AI 2041: Ten Visions For Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Quifan (book review).
One of the greatest challenges for a Science Fiction author is to write a story set twenty or so years in the future.…
August 2021
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Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space book 7) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
The arrival of a new ‘Revelation Space’ book from Alastair Reynolds is always quite an event and this is no exception. ‘Inhibitor Phase’…
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Cxin Liu’s YuanYuan’s Bubbles: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Steven Dupre (graphic novel review)
Of the four graphic novels based on Cixin Liu’s stories that I’ve read so far, ‘YuanYuan’s Bubbles’ is the first one where I…
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Cixin Liu’s The Village Teacher: Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Zhang Xiaoyu (graphic novel review).
The cover image for this graphic novel adaptation of Cixin Liu’s story ‘The Village Teacher’ seems very incongruous. The title brings to mind…
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Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger (book review).
When an accident triggers an evacuation of the International Space Station, one of the astronauts decides to stay behind. Ignoring protocol and direct…
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Cixin Liu’s The Wandering Earth by: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Stefano Raffaele (graphic novel review).
As part of the new series of graphic novels adaptations of Cixin Liu’s work, one of his best-known short stories, ‘The Wandering Earth’,…
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Cixin Liu’s Sea of Dreams: A Graphic Novel by Cixin Liu and Jok (graphic novel review).
Several of Cixin Liu’s novels and two short story collections have been translated into English and I’ve read all of them, as well…
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This Is Our Undoing by Lorraine Wilson (book review).
It’s seldom that I’m stumped when coming to write a book review, but all I can think to say about Lorraine Wilson’s novel…
July 2021
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An interview with Louise Johnson, Translator of Andrea Víctrix, by Gareth D Jones (interview).
Q: It seems you’ve been a fan of Llorenç Villalonga for quite a number of years. How did you come to end up…
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Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villalonga (book review).
Hailed as a classic of dystopian literature in Catalan, Llorenç Villalonga’s 1974 novel ‘Andrea Víctrix’ has now been translated into English for the…
June 2021
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This Eden by Ed O’Loughlin (book review).
Michael is a struggling engineering student whose girlfriend, Alice, is a coder and is working on a mysterious project for a big Silicon…