Cast Long Shadows by Cat Hellisen (book review).
Many writers learn their skills via fan fiction. These early efforts often use characters they like and identify with and
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Masters Of Time by A.E. Van Vogt (book review).
The one thing about getting SF books from the 1970s is they had some fabulous covers to make you give
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Mark Harrison’s Dreamlands written by Lisa Tuttle (artbook review).
OK, let’s play a geek game. Choose a defunct publisher. In this case Paper Tiger and google it and see
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Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics Of The 1950s by Dennis Saleh (book review).
Looking at Dennis Saleh’s other books, record album covers and poetry, ‘Science Fiction Gold: Film Classics Of The 1950s’ certainly
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The Beast by AE Van Vogt (book review).
The indicia to ‘The Beast’ by AE Van Vogt indicates this is the second issue, the first in 1964, although
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Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott (book review).
Science Fiction has always reflected the concerns of the authors at the time of writing. When the possibility of a
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Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (book review).
Alastair Reynolds was a little-known contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Dafoe. His only novel of note was the seagoing
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Quantum Of Nightmares (a Laundry Files novel) by Charles Stross (book review).
It has been almost two years since my last review of a Laundry Files book, ‘The Delirium Brief’. That one
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The Best Of Greg Egan by Greg Egan (book review).
The Best Of Greg Egan’ by Greg Egan is a collection of what he considers his twenty best Science Fiction
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Escape From Yokai Land (a Laundry Files novella) by Charles Stross (book review).
What we have here is an 81 page novella from Charles Stross which explains in some respect Bob Howard’s absence
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