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Spaceside (Planetside book 2) by Michael Mammay (book review).
Michael Mammay’s debut novel ‘Planetside’ was highly addictive and very impressive. It introduced us to Colonel Carl Butler, who was sent to investigate…
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Ancestral Night (White Space: Book One) by Elizabeth Bear (book review).
A sentient salvage ship named Singer and its crew encounter ancient alien technology and evidence of a terrible crime in ‘Ancestral Night’, the…
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WorldCon Dublin 2019 (convention report)
I’ve driven past the Dublin Convention Centre numerous times while I’ve been in Dublin on business, but this was my first time venturing…
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The Redemption Of Time (A Three-Body Problem Novel) by Baoshu translated by Ken Liu (book review).
The ‘Three Body’ trilogy was an epic tale of alien invasion, stunning large-concept feats of engineering, long-scale social development and tragic tales of…
July 2019
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Cage Of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
In the very far future, the remnants of mankind live in the city of Shadrapur. It’s a ruin of a city, eking out…
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All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (book review).
‘Groundhog Day with aliens,’ is how one might describe the Tom Cruise film ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’. Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s novel translated by…
June 2019
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Waste Tide by Chen Quifan translated by Ken Liu (book review).
Award-winning Chinese Science Fiction author Chen Quifan is the latest to have his work opened up to the anglophone world via Ken Liu’s…
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Alliance Rising (Alliance-Union Universe) by C.J. Cherryh & Jane S. Fancher (book review).
I‘ve read all of C.J.Cherryh ‘s ‘Alliance-Union’ books in recent years, including the ones that were only vaguely related in that they were…
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Children Of Ruin (The Children Of Time novels book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s 2015 novel ‘Children Of Time’, we followed some of the descendants of humanity as they travelled among the stars on…
May 2019
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Beneath The World, A Sea by Chris Beckett (book review).
When I read the cover blurb for Chis Beckett’s new novel ‘Beneath The World, A Sea’, it seemed vaguely familiar. A British policeman…
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Morhelion (The Long Game book 2) by Dominic Dulley (book review).
‘Morhelion’ follows on from Dominic Dulley’s debut novel, the breezy space opera adventure ‘Shattermoon’, bringing back the roguish and mismatched crew of the…
April 2019
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Atlas Alone (Planetfall 4) by Emma Newman (book review).
‘Atlas Alone’ is the fourth novel set in Emma Newman’s ‘Planetfall’ universe, all of which I have enjoyed and found to be engaging…