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Dan Simmons: scifi author genius – his best and worst novels (retrospective).
Over the past 40 years, Dan Simmons has released three collections of short stories and 25 novels. Let’s review and tier rate 14…
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February 2023
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What Mad Universe by Fredric Brown (book review).
William Tenn in his introduction to ‘Of All Possible Worlds’ especially ranked ‘What Mad Universe’ by Fredric Brown as one of the finest…
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Harpan’s Worlds: Worlds Apart by Terry Jackman (book review).
‘Harpan’s Worlds: Worlds Apart’ by Terry Jackman is a military space opera about an orphan trying to make good, but with a…
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Will Do Magic For Small Change by Andrea Hairston (book review).
Part of the brief of the BBC is to inform, educate and entertain. That is something a good book should also do. With…
January 2023
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My Mother Murdered The Moon (NP Novella # 8) by Stephen Deas (book review).
I love reading novellas. They’re long enough that the author can tell a rich and detailed story but short enough that you can…
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The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz (book review).
The planet of Sask-E has been painstakingly terraformed over centuries to build a recreation of an ecosystem like old-Earth’s. Destry and her fellow…
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Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez (book review).
The spaceship Konstantin successfully went to the asteroid Ryugu to mine its resources. Most of the crew managed to return home to Earth…
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Three Body Problem (science fiction novel retrospective).
Beware, there are spoilers ahead in this video for Cixin Liu’s trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past. Although the nature of the world and…
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Medusa by Chris Achilleos (book review).
Artist Chris Achilleos died last year and some of his books are popping up on the internet auction sites at reasonable prices. Hence…
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The War Within: The Great God’s War Book Two by Stephen Donaldson (book review).
‘The War Within’ is the sequel to ‘The Seventh Decimate’ and begins twenty years after the events of that book, so there are…
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Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent? by Brian Cronin (book review).
Brian Cronin’s book title, ‘Why Does Batman Carry Sharp Repellent?’ continues with ‘And Other Amazing Comic Book Trivia’ but that would make it…
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Of All Possible Worlds by William Tenn (book review).
William Tenn aka Philip Klass (1920-2010) had this anthology of 8 short stories, ‘Of All Possible Worlds’ out in 1956 with this reprint…