The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (book review).
‘The Midnight Lie’ by Marie Rutkoski is the first in a duology set in the same world as her ‘Winners
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Orson Scott Card: author interview (video).
Interviewer Ben Shapiro sits down with Ender’s Game scifi author Orson Scott Card to discuss how all human beings have
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Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (book review).
OK, so this is the part of the review when I’m meant to write a brief synopsis of the novel.
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It is the matter of the hour … does fantasy and science fiction author Stephen Hunt deserve an author’s shed
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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
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Storyhack Action & Adventure Issue Five (e-magazine review).
The coronavirus lockdown has led many publishers and authors to peddle their works at big discounts or even free. Such
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Immobility by Brian Evenson (book review).
I’ve read quite a few post-apocalyptic tales and there are certain things you come to expect: bleak landscapes, dust, desperados
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Martin Bower’s World Of Models by Shaun McClure & Martin Bower (book review).
I’ve known Martin Bower was involved in model-making from many decades back, enforced when he had a small exhibition in
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Bone Silence (Revenger trilogy book 3) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
Space Opera was a term coined in the 1930s and related to fictional adventures set almost entirely off-planet. Spaceships ignored
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Trajectory by Stephan Martinier (book review).
Occasionally, I did a search of ‘art books’ on the long river website and came across ‘Trajectory’ by Stephan Martinier
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