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By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar (book review).
In recent years there were a couple of films that purported to tell the more historically accurate stories behind such legendary figures as…
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War Of The Maps by Paul McAuley (book review).
There’s a real sense of wonder right from the beginning of Paul McAuley’s new novel ‘War Of The Maps’. Set in the far,…
February 2020
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Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling (book review).
Translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle, ‘Qualityland’ is Marc-Uwe Kling’s satirical novel of a future where everything is controlled by algorithms.…
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The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars Trilogy book 1) by John Birmingham (book review).
When I decided to jot down my initial impressions of John Birmingham’s ‘The Cruel Stars’, I was surprised to find myself half-way through…
January 2020
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Visions #2: Visions Of Humanity (magazine review).
The second issue of ‘Visions’ magazine landed on the doormat with a solid thud: a chunky, serious-looking magazine of 256 pages in red,…
December 2019
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Radicalized by Cory Doctorow (book review).
Don’t you hate it when technology tells you what to do? My car keeps telling me what gear to change into. It’s so…
November 2019
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Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald (book review).
Things are changing on the Moon as the third volume of Ian McDonald’s Luna trilogy, ‘Moon Rising’ kicks off. The remaining four Dragons…
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Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald (book review).
The second volume of Ian McDonald’s ‘Luna’ trilogy follows on directly from the events of ‘New Moon’, chronicling the fallout from the tumultuous…
October 2019
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The Supernova Era by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen (book review).
Cixin Liu returns with another enthralling novel in ‘The Supernova Era’. Well, he only returns in English as the original Chinese version was…
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Luna: New Moon (book 1) by Ian McDonald (book review).
I’ve read Ian McDonald’s short story ‘The Fifth Dragon’ a couple of times, a story set in the early days of moon colonisation…
September 2019
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The New Voices Of Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman (book review).
The editors, Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman, of this new anthology, ‘The New Voices Of Science Fiction’ have set out to present the…
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World Science Fiction 1 Visions To Preserve The Biodiversity Of The Future edited by Francesco Verso (book review).
At a panel on translated fiction at the Dublin WorldCon, Francesco Verso was very passionate about creating opportunities for more Science Fiction from…