The Unkindest Tide (An October Daye novel book 13) by Seanan McGuire (book review).
Selkies are the seal people of Gaelic, Scottish and Scandinavian folklore. While spending most of their time in the sea,
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Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling (book review).
Translated from the German by Jamie Lee Searle, ‘Qualityland’ is Marc-Uwe Kling’s satirical novel of a future where everything is
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How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene (book review).
When I started Stanislas Dehaene’s book, ‘How We Learn’, with its sub-title adding the detail, ‘The New Science Of Education
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Reality Simulation In Science Fiction, Literature, Film and Television by Heather Duerre Humann (book review).
Looking at the examples cited by author Heather Duerre Humann in her introduction to her book ‘Reality Simulation In Science
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The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars Trilogy book 1) by John Birmingham (book review).
When I decided to jot down my initial impressions of John Birmingham’s ‘The Cruel Stars’, I was surprised to find
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Jack Kirby’s Dingbat Love edited by John Morrow (graphic novel review).
In 1970, having made his name drawing iconic heroes for Marvel, artist and writer Jack Kirby proposed to his new
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Pencil Workshop by Sasha Prood (book review).
The first thing I said to the publicist at Abrams when I saw this book in their catalogue was they
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Daughter From The Dark by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko translated by Julia Meitov Hersey (book review)
Alexey Grimalsky likes his life as DJ Aspirin. He rules the radio air waves by day and nightclub dancers by
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The Complete Short Stories Of Mike Carey (book review).
Despite having been a fan of Mike Carey’s work for quite some time, I am, perhaps one of the few
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Knightwatch: Invictus X (Invictaverse book 1) by Mark Ellis (book review).
This book was first conceived as a comic series, back in the 1980s, when Mark Ellis was the primary writer/ideas
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