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The Wisdom Of Crowds (The Age Of Madness book 3) by Joe Abercrombie (book review).
Sadly, ‘The Wisdom Of Crowds’ is the last of ‘The Age Of Madness’ trilogy and we will see where the chess pieces end…
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September 2021
ReviewScifi
Neptune (Outer Planets Trilogy book 2) by Ben Bova (book review)
‘Neptune’ is an unusual book in several ways. One is that it is divided into ‘chapters’ of only one to four pages and…
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Rituals (Cainsville series book 5) by Kelley Armstrong (book review).
Writers who produce series are faced with a dilemma. Not everyone finds the first book and may enter the plot arc part-way through.…
NewsScifi
Stephen Hunt’s new science fiction adventure, ‘Voyage of the Void Lost’ dives out of Hyperspace.
Stephen Hunt’s amazing new science fiction adventure, ‘Voyage of the Void Lost’ has launched a month earlier than it’s pre-order date – so…
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What’s Eating The Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions by Paul Davies (book review).
You would think with a title like ‘What’s Eating The Universe?’ that there is some cosmic menace out there but actually author Paul…
ReviewFantasy
The Peculiarities by David Liss (book review)
Another century is dawning and London is seeing the birth of a new age. The steam and industry of the 19th century have…
August 2021
ReviewScifi
The Science Of Science-Fiction Writing by James Gunn (book review).
As I commented when I reviewed ‘Alternate Worlds’, I wanted to check out some more of James Gunn’s non-fiction. Reading the introduction to…
ReviewScifi
The Darkest Of Nights by Charles Eric Maine (book review).
Part of my research into cataclysms in Science Fiction, I asked Pauline Morgan for examples where she directed me to ‘The Darkest Of…
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Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space book 7) by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
The arrival of a new ‘Revelation Space’ book from Alastair Reynolds is always quite an event and this is no exception. ‘Inhibitor Phase’…
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Fire Of The Dark Triad By Asya Semenovich (book review).
‘Fire Of The Dark Triad’ is the debut novel from Asya Semenovich that is a space opera meets psycho-thriller with a difference. It…
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Light Chaser by Peter F Hamilton and Gareth L Powell (book review).
The starship Mnemonsyne has journeyed between the worlds of The Domain for millennia. It carries a single traveller, Amahle, a Light Chaser. Amahle…
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Requiem For An Astronaut by Daniel Bennett (book review).
‘Requiem For An Astronaut’ by Daniel Bennett is another novella from Newcon Press. At a hundred pages, they provide the succinctness of a…