Author: Jonathan Thornton
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THE BLOOD OF ANGELS by Johanna Sinisalo: 2011, translated by Lola Rogers 2014 (BOOK REVIEW)
“Bees can sense electrical charges in the air and feel magnetic fields. It’s pretty obvious that if there are such things as portals, doors, thin places ... -
IMAGO by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wasn’t surprised this time. My body wanted him. My body sought to please him. What would happen to me when I had two or more ... -
ADULTHOOD RITES by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“Human beings fear difference,” Lilith had told him once. “Oankali crave difference. Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and ... -
BIRDBRAIN by Johanna Sinisalo (BOOK REVIEW)
“This is how humans function. This is precisely how humans function. You know what lies behind the horizon, but you have to carry on in the ... -
DAWN by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“But what was the problem? You said we had two incompatible characteristics. What were they?” Jdahya made a rustling noise that could have been a sigh, ... -
NOT BEFORE SUNDOWN by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Herbert Lomas (BOOK REVIEW)
“’Definition always presupposes its opposite,’ I say to the woman in the camouflaged combat suit. She’s trying to get me to converse, though what I most ... -
Interview with K. W. Jeter (GRIM EXPECTATIONS)
K.W. Jeter is one of genre fiction’s pioneers, whose work crosses the boundaries of SF, Fantasy and horror. He coined the term ‘steampunk’ in 1987 to ... -
THE GOOD NEIGHBOURS by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Grandma says all fairy mythology comes from the same root, like religion. That it’s one big idea that gets pulled in different directions depending on where ... -
TO THE WARM HORIZON by Choi Jin-young (BOOK REVIEW)
“Like time, hope is something that does not stay but comes and goes.” We’ve all reacted to the pandemic differently. Whilst some people have found watching ... -
SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon (BOOK REVIEW)
“Sometimes it seemed like there was a creature inside her, lurking, trying to bust through her bones, a demented birth. Mam would be a pile of ...
