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Imaginary Numbers (InCryptid novels book 9) by Seanan McGuire (book review).

Authors are very good at hunting out little documented information and embroidering it to produce something potentially spectacular. It is

Space Opera was a term coined in the 1930s and related to fictional adventures set almost entirely off-planet. Spaceships ignored

The idea of alternative histories and parallel worlds are tropes that have been common in SF and fantasy literature for

For anyone unfamiliar with the ‘Darkover’ series created by Marion Zimmer Bradley, it is Science Fiction with fantasy overtones. Although

Selkies are the seal people of Gaelic, Scottish and Scandinavian folklore. While spending most of their time in the sea,

What seems like a lifetime ago and is probably much more than that for some of the readers of this

There are two schools of thought regarding space travel in fiction. One is to stick to the science as we

Once a book has been published, it is impossible to correct flaws in the construction of a fantasy world without

Once, the usual format for publishing was the one-off book, the standalone. This had one set of characters which occurred

Strong emotions can leave their mark. One of the theories behind hauntings is that powerful events are recorded by the