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Drive Or Be Driven: Stories Of Travel (Polestars 6) by Aliya Whiteley (book review).
‘Drive Or Be Driven’ by Aliya Whiteley is the sixth book in the ‘Polestars’ series of individual author short story collections from Newcon…
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August 2025
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The Society Of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown (book review).
The bad news, reader, is that you cannot join the Society of Unknowable Objects. Membership is inherited, passed down from father to son…
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Dark Wraith Of Shannara by Terry Brooks (book review).
There are surly no fans of fantasy who have not heard of Terry Brooks. His seminal first novel, ‘The Sword Of Shannara’ is…
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The Prometheus Crisis by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson (book review).
Now writers Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson wrote ‘The Glass Inferno’ in 1974, and another book, ‘The Tower’ by Richard Martin…
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The Stars Are Dying (Nytefall Trilogy book 1) by Chloe C. Pen᷉aranda (book review).
There are times when a writer’s enthusiasm for the book they are writing gets in the way of something coherent. They invest their…
July 2025
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Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse book 8) by James S A Corey (book review).
‘Tiamat’s Wrath’ is the eighth novel of ‘The Expanse’ space opera series by James S A Corey. High Consul Winston Duarte rules the…
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Slow Horses (Slough House Thrillers book 1) by Mick Herron (book review).
I’ve seen the ‘Slow Horses’ TV series on DVD and thought it was about time I looked at the books, especially as they…
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Elephants In Bloom (Polestars 5) by Cécile Cristofari (book review).
‘Elephants In Bloom’ by Cécile Cristofari is the fifth book in the Polestars series of individual author short story collections from NewCon Press.…
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Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (book review).
In case no one has noticed, there are books in print that don’t contain elements of science fiction or fantasy. While some of…
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The Emilie Adventures: Emilie And The Hollow World, Emilie And The Sky World by Martha Wells (book review).
‘The Emilie Adventures’ is a reissuing of Martha Wells’ two YA novels, ‘Emilie and the Hollow World’ and ‘Emilie and the Sky World’.…
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Imago (A Lilith’s Brood Novel book 3) by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
For the third of ‘Lilith’s Brood’ novels, we have ‘Imago’, and the metamorphosis of another of her offspring, Jodahs. His full name is…
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Adulthood Rites (A Lilith’s Brood Novel book 2) by Octavia E. Butler (book review).
It is now sometime later on Earth and in the village of Lo. Lilith Iyapo is fifty-five with a hybrid baby son, Akin.…