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Author: Jonathan Thornton

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Jonathan Thornton

Jonathan Thornton is from Scotland but grew up in Kenya, and now lives in Liverpool. He has a lifelong love of fantasy and science fiction, kicked off by reading The Lord Of The Rings and Dune at an impressionable age. Nowadays his favourite writers are Michael Moorcock, John Crowley, Gene Wolfe, Patricia McKillip and Ursula Le Guin. He has a day job working with mosquitoes, and one day wants to finish writing his own stories. You can find Jonathan on Twitter at @JonathanThornt2.

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    By Jonathan Thornton
    August 8, 2022
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    CLUB DED by Nikhil Singh (BOOK REVIEW)

    “She calls them messages from the deep. Not the voices of individuals. These are the voices of cities. Cities sometimes speak through people. Did you know ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionSpeculative
    By Jonathan Thornton
    July 18, 2022
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    HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like ...
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  • Book ReviewsLiterarySpeculativeWomen In SFF
    By Jonathan Thornton
    July 6, 2022
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    ANIMALS AT NIGHT by Naomi Booth (BOOK REVIEW)

    “They’re getting drunk and reminiscing about their old lives, about gigs and parties and festivals on faraway beaches where they’d danced and played like animals at ...
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    By Jonathan Thornton
    June 28, 2022
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    Interview with Margaret Killjoy (A COUNTRY OF GHOSTS)

    Margaret Killjoy interview transcript 17th June 2022 Margaret Killjoy is an author and activist. She has written A Country Of Ghosts (2014), which was recently reissued ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyPunkSupernatural
    By Jonathan Thornton
    June 24, 2022
    1772
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    THE LAMB WILL SLAUGHTER THE LION / THE BARROW WILL SEND WHAT IT MAY by Margaret Killjoy (BOOK REVIEWS)

    “Collective safety, sometimes, trumps personal safety. Friends who aren’t willing to fight alongside one another aren’t friends.” “No real plans, only chaos.  This is how we’re ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionSpeculative
    By Jonathan Thornton
    June 22, 2022
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    THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER by Iris Murdock (BOOK REVIEW)

    “You will never know the truth, and you will read the signs in accordance with your deepest wishes. That is what we humans always have to ...
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    By Jonathan Thornton
    June 20, 2022
    1947
    1

    TEMPORARY AGENCY by Rachel Pollack (BOOK REVIEW)

    “When I was fourteen, a cousin of mine angered a Malignant One.” Rachel Pollack’s Temporary Agency (1994) is set in the same world as her classic ...
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    By Jonathan Thornton
    May 23, 2022
    1909
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    WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS by Nana Nkweti (BOOK REVIEW)

    “A Mami Wata’s essence is moonlight and desire melded to one. Nala knows this in her marrow, in her fins. Lasirèn, Yemanja, Oxum, Erzulie, Jine-Faro, Santa ...
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    By Jonathan Thornton
    May 12, 2022
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    Patricia A. McKillip (1948-2022)

    “Sybel, there must be a silence deeper than the silence of Eld between those stars; shall we go listen to it?” This is a difficult one ...
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    By Jonathan Thornton
    May 5, 2022
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    BEAUTIFUL STAR by Yukio Mishima (BOOK REVIEW)

    Yukio Mishima – Beautiful Star (1962, translated by Stephen Dodd 2022) “Death now enveloped earthlings in the form of beautiful clouds. The high crimson and violet ...
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