Sharps by K.J. Parker (book review).
As a sweeping generalisation, KJ Parker’s novels are intelligent, funny, brutal, thrilling and inaccessible. Parker’s gift – one of them,
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Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson (book review).
‘Shaman’ is the story of Loon, a young man who comes of age thirty-two thousand years ago, in the Palaeolithic
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Reaper’s Legacy Toxic City: Book Two by Tim Lebbon (book review).
The stakes are raised in ‘Reaper’s Legacy’, the second book of Tim Lebbon’s ‘Toxic City’ trilogy in which London has
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Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (book review).
Ann Leckie’s first novel, ‘Ancillary Justice’, has some interesting ideas that would work well in a short story but vastly
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The Romanov Cross by Robert Masello (book review)
You may think that ‘The Romanov Cross’ doesn’t belong on a site like this but much if you look under
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Ascendant Stars (Book Three of Humanity’s Fire) by Michael Cobley (book review).
‘Ascendant Stars’ is part three of a big trilogy, ‘Humanity’s Fire’, which can be a problem. The book opens with
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Maleficium by Martine Desjardins scoops the 2013 Sunburst Award.
The Sunburst Award winner for their 2013 adult award is Maleficium by Martine Desjardins; translated by Fred A. Reed and
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The Sharper Mind by Fred B. Chernow (book review).
Having spent some time in recent months seeing if I can interest you people in upping your mathematical skills, through
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A Brief Guide TO C.S. Lewis: From Mere Christianity To Narnia by Paul Simpson (book review).
Y’know, it’s rather weird. By now, we should have had the fourth Narnia film, ‘The Silver Chair’, but nothing is
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A Companion To Science Fiction edited by David Seed (book review).
The first question that always needs to be asked about any non-fiction book is who is it aimed at and
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