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The Other Frankenstein by Melissa P. Olson (book review).

Retelling classic novels, particularly if the aim is to give them a more contemporary twist, is always risky. But with

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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

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The Lost Reliquary by Lyndsay Ely (book review).

‘The Lost Reliquary’ effectively engages the reader from the very first line. The protagonist, Lys, is part of the crowd

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The Ferryman by Justin Cronin (book review).

I think this might be SF with shades of living in a digital reality. People on the island question the

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Ronin Uprising by Frank Miller, Philip Tan and Daniel Henriques (graphic novel review).

‘Ronin Rising’ combines samurai-style combat with dystopian Science Fiction but, while the artwork is okay, the story doesn’t really make

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Extinction by Douglas Peston (book review).

Needless to say, when I started reading this book, ‘Extinction by Douglas Peston’, the shadow of ‘Jurassic Park’ was already

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The Three-Body Problem, Volume 1 (of 10) by Liu Cixin with art by Xudong Cai (graphic novel review).

Cixin Liu’s novel, ’The Three-Body Problem, was published in China in 2008 and has since gone on to become a

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Pandora (Book 1) written by Frank Miller and Emma Kubert with art by Anthony Maranville and Chris Silvestri (graphic novel review).

Annabeth is a fifteen-year-old stuck in an unhappy home and without real friends at school. Her mother makes ends meet

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Stations Of The Tide by Michael Swanwick (book review).

To the watery world of Miranda comes the Bureaucrat, the unnamed protagonist of a very strange but in some ways

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War Of The God Queen by David Hambling (book review).

In some ways, ‘War Of The God Queen’ is another version of the familiar story outline where a modern and

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