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Outcast (Inscape book 2) by Louise Carey (book review).
For as long as people have been creating stories, there have always been ones describing how the world ends. Science fiction writers have…
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Science fiction, fantasy, horror and steampunk.
November 2022
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Curfew (2019) (DVD TV series review).
‘Curfew’ is an odd SF series. Don’t treat the cover as an example of the stars appearing throughout the 8 episodes because its…
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Slow River (SF Masterworks) by Nicola Griffith (book review).
‘Slow River’ by Nicola Griffith is a standalone near future Science Fiction novel that was originally published in 1995 and is now included…
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Redspace Rising (Ten Thousand Thunder series book 2) by Brian Trent (book review).
‘Redspace Rising’ is Brian Trent’s action-packed SF thriller brought to us by relative newcomers Flame Tree Press. I was surprised to discover on…
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The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sep/Oct 2022, Volume 143# 763 (magazine review).
The sign of a good magazine is that it considers its potential readership and tries to include items that will appeal to all…
October 2022
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The Best Of R.A. Lafferty (book review).
R.A. Lafferty aka Raphael Aloysius Lafferty or simply Ray Lafferty (1914-2002) has a lot of fans, hardly surprising when you see an introduction…
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The Midwich Cuckoos (2022) (DVD TV series review).
As I don’t watch the digital pay channels, bear in mind I have nothing to compare ‘The Midwich Cuckoos’ to other Sky Channel…
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Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders book 1) by Mur Lafferty (book review).
People die around Mallory Viridian. They don’t drop dead of a heart attack or anything natural or accidental. They are murdered. Not by…
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Living Memory by David Walton (book review).
‘Living Memory’ by David Walton is the first in a series of near future novels about maniraptorans, dinosaurs that are birds or closely…
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Cixin Liu’s For The Benefit Of Mankind: A Graphic Novel (The Worlds Of Cixin Liu) by Sylvain Runberg and Mike Montlló (graphic novel review).
‘For The Benefit Of Mankind’ sees the arrival of an alien race in the skies of Earth, whose orbiting ships light up the…
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The Stone God Awakens by Philip José Farmer (book review).
Originally published by Ace Books in 1970, Meteor House have given ‘The Stone God Awakens’ its first limited hardcover edition, alongside an unlimited…
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Cixin Liu’s The Devourer: A Graphic Novel (The Worlds of Cixin Liu) by JD Morvan and Weilin Yang (book review).
One of the recurring themes in Cixin Liu’s short stories is the arrival of an enormous alien artefact in the skies of Earth.…