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Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch (book review).
I’m always a little curious when MSN’s main page has a topic on important science fiction books. Are they going to include classic…
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September 2025
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The Aliens by Murray Leinster (book review).
Murray Leinster’s book, ‘The Aliens,’ is actually a five-story anthology of material previously seen in print in American SF magazines. I read Leinster…
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A Trick Of The Mind by Daniel Yon (book review).
As a creative, I tend to be unique, exploring what makes me tick. Other creatives tend to avoid this because they are afraid…
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Mindscape by Andrea Hairston (book review).
One hundred and fifteen years in our future, the Earth has been divided by the Barrier, a mysterious, extraterrestrial entity. Each zone battles…
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The Dark Between The Stars (The Saga Of Shadows book one) by Kevin J. Anderson (book review).
Kevin J. Anderson is probably best known these days for his collaboration with Brian Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, on extending his…
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Spook Street (Slough House book 4) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unusual for a ‘Slough House’ thriller, Jackson Lamb is missing from the first third of this book, ‘Spook Street’. Instead, a car bomb…
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Adrift In Currents Clean And Clear (Wayward Children series book 10 of 11) by Seanan McGuire (book review).
‘The Wayward Children’ books are written with the teenage reader in mind but can be enjoyed by all ages. The tales revolve around…
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Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews With Legends of Science Fiction edited by Richard Wolinsky (book review)
‘Spaceships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! ‘Interviews With Science Fiction Legends’ is a book of interviews with a difference. Instead of having one author,…
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Unknown Destinies volume 1, edited by Fiction4All (ebook review).
‘Unknown Destinies Volume 1’ is an anthology of twenty-one stories from different authors, but not twenty-one different authors as some have several yarns…
August 2025
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The Great West Wood by Philip Palmer (book review).
Philip Palmer’s The Great West Wood is that rare novel which feels both startlingly original and yet rooted in a mythic tradition as…
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After Doomsday by Poul Anderson (book review).
If you want to start a story on a downer, try it the way Poul Anderson did with ‘After Doomsday’. The Earth has…
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Real Tigers (Slough House book 3) by Mick Herron (book review).
Unravelling the opening sequence of the third ‘Slough House’ book, ‘Real Tigers’, involves many threads, with the first one not making sense until…