Some Kind Of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce (book review).
The difference between a writer of fantasy and a mainstream writer can be so negligible that it only happens in
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Queen Of Nowhere by Jaine Fenn (book review).
When an author lovingly creates a universe, giving it a plausible background history and spreads it over a vast area
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Pollen by Jeff Noon (book review).
When writing novels, there is often a temptation to blend more than one genre together and the results are not
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Universes by Stephen Baxter (book review).
Stephen Baxter has been on the periphery of my awareness for years. I have read one of his stories, only
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Spilling The Beans On The Cat’s Pyjamas by Judy Parkinson (book review).
When I first enquired about getting a review copy of this book, the bemused publicist said it wasn’t Science Fiction.
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Spider-Man And Philosophy edited by Jonathan J. Sanford (book review).
If anything, I’m kind of surprised how late in the line a book release associating Spider-Man with philosophy is, considering
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The Entropy Conflict by David Conyers (book review).
An interesting collection of five short stories, this is a presentation of Australian author David Conyers’ new and recent work,
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Dog In The Manger (An Eli Paxton Mystery) by Mike Resnick (book review).
There is something in the way that SF writers will flirt with the crime genre, but rarely the other way
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Buffy Meets The Academy edited by Kevin K. Durland (book review).
The sub-title of ‘Buffy Meets The Academy’ is ‘Essays On The Episodes And Scripts As Texts’ which roughly translates into
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Blameless (The Parasol Protectorate Book The Third) by Gail Carriger (book review).
‘Blameless’ is book three in ‘The Parasol Protectorate’ preceded by ‘Soulless’ and ‘Changeless’ and followed on by ‘Heartless’ and ‘Timeless’.
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