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The Year’s Top Short SF Novels 2 edited by Allan Kaster (CD review).
Audio Text keeps producing good packages of Science Fiction audio literature and the trend continues with this offering of six excellently narrated stories.…
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Cloud Atlas (film review) – Frank’s take.
In quoting the legendary Motown singing group The Temptations they insisted ‘…I’m doing fine on Cloud Nine…’ but it is too bad that…
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The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight by Jack Campbell (book review)
This is a novel from the Lost Fleet Universe as depicted in the original ‘Lost Fleet’ series of novels. For those new to…
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Strontium Dog: The Life And Death Of Johnny Alpha by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra (graphic novel review).
Johnny Alpha is dead. Only there is some mystery about it as journalist Precious Matson gets Middenface McNulty to help find out the…
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The Boolean Gate by Walter Jon Williams (book review).
The one problem with Subterranean Press books is that even when we review them to fit in their release schedule, their short run…
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Imager’s Intrigue (Imager Portfolio book 3) by L.E.Modesitt, Jr. (book review).
In the third volume in the ‘Imager Portfolio’, our hero, Rhennthyl, is involved in everything from street level drug crime to international warfare.…
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Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton (book review)
I have completed the ‘Great North Road’ and it’s an epic trek taking you to places you would never otherwise visit, meeting both…
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Assault On Precinct 13/Dark Star by Alan Howarth (album review)
This album features music from John Carpenter’s 1976 cult classic ‘Assault On Precinct 13’ and his debut film ‘Dark Star’ from 1974. Given…
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Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology edited by James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel (book review).
Look at the title ‘Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology’ and puzzle over what it means. To me, a singularity is a black hole.…
September 2012
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The Infernal Devices 1: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (book review).
‘Clockwork Angel’ is the first book in ‘The Infernal Devices’, a new series by Cassandra Clare, set in a steampunk world. Basically, this…
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2012, edited by James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel (book review).
‘The Nebula Awards Showcase 2012’ is the thirteenth anthology in a row dedicated to getting the winning stories from the Science Fiction Writers…
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Savage 2: The Gov’nor by Pat Mills and Patrick Goodard (graphic novel review).
A graphic novel collection set in ‘another Britain’, neat shorthand for an alternative historical milieu, ‘Savage’ is the story of Bill Savage. He…