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Inscape by Louise Carey (book review).
Set in a high-tech future London that has been built on the ruins of its pre-meltdown predecessor, Louise Carey’s novel ‘Inscape’ is a…
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January 2021
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Tales From The Weekend edited by David J. Howe (book review)
‘The Road To Holly Tree Farm’ by Paul Lewis launches ‘Tales From The Weekend’, a short collection of weird fiction from Telos Publishing.…
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Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: All Flesh Is Grass by Una McCormack (book review).
In ‘All Flesh Is Grass’ has the Tenth Doctor is on a rampage. He’s gone back to the time before time of ‘The…
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Doctor Who: Adventures In Lockdown (book review).
In the long ago days of March 2020, everyone was very scared and feeling very isolated. But the brilliant Doctor sent us a…
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Divine Heretic by Jamie Lee Moyer (book review).
Set against the backdrop of the Hundred Year War between England and France during the fifteenth century, this is a new take on…
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The Thief On The Winged Horse by Kate Mascarenhas (book review).
‘The Thief On The Winged Horse’ is the second published novel by Kate Mascarenhas. This takes a different turn from ‘The Psychology Of…
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Ghost Frequencies by Gary Gibson (book review).
I’d never previously read anything by Gary Gibson, so I picked this one, ‘Ghost Frequencies’, out of the review pile on the strength…
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The Key To Fear by Kristin Cast (book review).
‘No touching today for a healthy tomorrow.’ Elodie is a nurse in a post-pandemic world. She is aware of the constrictions but grateful…
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Matryoshka by Ricardo Pinto (book review).
‘Matryoshka’ is an odd one to say the least. It’s an adult variation on a classic children’s story trope in that the protagonist,…
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The Last Emperox (The Interdependency book 3) by John Scalzi (book review).
The barely understood spatial phenomena called the Flow has allowed ships to leap across the vastness of space between human colonies. It is…
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Modern Masters Volume Two: George Pérez edited by Eric Nolen-Weathington (book review).
As I’ve commented in the past, if you’re patient and look around even the hardest to find books can often pop up and…
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Dune: The Duke Of Caladan (The Caladan Trilogy book 1) by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (book review).
To paraphrase Liet-Kynes, ‘Against all better judgement, I liked book.’ Put another way, there’s a fair deal of antipathy directed at Messrs Herbert…