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The Best Of Roger Zelazny (SF Masterworks) (book review).
‘The Best Of Roger Zelazny’ is a new collection that contains several classic short stories and novelettes, many of which won the…
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The Mountain In The Sea by Ray Nayler (book review).
Anyone who has seen the film ‘Arrival’ will be aware of the problems with trying to communicate with a truly alien species. Since…
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Abominable Science by Daniel Loxton and Donald A. Prothero (book review).
Just in case you thought I only picked up a couple of Loch Ness Monster books and nothing else on the subject, let…
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Stroke Of The Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett (book review).
The fact Terry Pratchett died back in 2015 hasn’t stopped him from releasing new books. ‘A Stroke Of The Pen’ is a collection…
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Spycraft: Inside The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Lab by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton (book review).
I’ve been holding onto ‘Spycraft: Inside The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Lab’ by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton for several years. Melton,…
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Michael Bishop, rest in peace: Crafting worlds beyond imagination (author obituary).
Today, we bid farewell to a luminary of the literary world, Michael Bishop, who left us on November 13, 2023, just a day…
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Doctor Who: The Evil Of The Daleks by Frazer Hines, adapted from the original scripts by David Whitaker (book review).
This new novelisation, ‘Doctor Who: The Evil Of The Daleks’, for the approaching 60th anniversary, has been issued with a flourish and a little…
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Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders Book 2) by Mur Lafferty (book review).
Mallory Veridian has opened a detective agency on Station Eternity. She did move as far away from humans as she could by leaving…
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Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion (Target Collection) by Peter Harness (book review)
‘The Zygon Invasion’ was two episodes in the TV ‘Doctor Who’ series and here it has been compressed into one novel. It follows…
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Doctor Who: Kerblam! (Target Collection) by Pete McTighe (book review)
The memorable title of ‘Kerblam!’ brings us to a rather depressing future where everyone orders their goods from a central location and all…
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The Mercy of Gods; Expanse authors return with a new Sci-Fi trilogy (book news).
In a universe far, far away from the beloved world of The Expanse, James S.A. Corey – the pen name of the dynamic…
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Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (book review)
Octavia Butler died in 2006 and ‘Fledgling’ was her last novel, originally printed in 2005 and first printed in the UK in 2014…