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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.

  • Book ReviewsScience FictionSpace Opera
    By Jonathan Thornton
    May 3, 2022
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    STRINGERS by Chris Panatier (BOOK REVIEW)

    “The world had altered so drastically that I was unable to process it. Twenty minutes before, I had been driving the Subaru, anticipating the chance to ...
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  • Book ReviewsHistoricalTranslation
    By Jonathan Thornton
    April 21, 2022
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    The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman, The Arabic Epic of Dhat Al-Himma (edited and translated by Melanie Magidow, 2022) BOOK REVIEW

    “When Mazlum told her of her uncle’s suggestion, Fatima laughed outright. Then her eyes flashed and she spoke softly. ‘I swear, even if the most powerful ...
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  • AfrofuturismBook ReviewsScience FictionUtopian/Distopian
    By Jonathan Thornton
    April 14, 2022
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    The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Ain’t just about prospering, it’s about progressing, connecting, tappin’ into something larger than yourself, so you can really see. Can’t build nothing if you can’t feel ...
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  • Book ReviewsClimate FictionScience FictionSpeculativeUtopian/Distopian
    By Jonathan Thornton
    April 12, 2022
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    OVAL by Elvia Wilk (BOOK REVIEW)

    “If there was no secret, there was no reason not to scroll through the messages. They looked at each other’s screens all the time. That was ...
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  • BlogInterviews
    By Jonathan Thornton
    April 6, 2022
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    Interview with T.R. Napper (36 STREETS)

    T. R. Napper is a multi-award-winning short story writer, including the Aurealis twice (Best Short Story, 2016; Best Novella, 2020). His work has appeared in ‘Year’s ...
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  • Book ReviewsCyberpunkScience Fiction
    By Jonathan Thornton
    March 23, 2022
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    QUEEN CITY JAZZ by Kathleen Ann Goonan (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Her new nose deep in Flowers, she sucked forth stories, stories, stories, they fell off the stamens that weren’t stamens and stuck to her legs and ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyScience FictionWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    March 5, 2022
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    OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield (BOOK REVIEW)

    “The deep sea is a haunted house: a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness.” Julia Armfield’s debut novel ...
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  • Book ReviewsClimate FictionScience FictionUtopian/Distopian
    By Jonathan Thornton
    March 3, 2022
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    THE DOLORIAD by Missouri Williams (BOOK REVIEW)

    “…and looking into her bruised face the schoolmaster thought to himself that the history of the world was the history of cruelty, that it had never ...
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  • BlogInterviews
    By Jonathan Thornton
    March 1, 2022
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    Interview with Gareth L. Powell (STARS AND BONES)

    We’ve been a bit sneaky here at the Hive and, despite sharing a review from Lucy of Stars and Bones for the blog tour, we’ve managed to ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionSpace Opera
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 18, 2022
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    BLUEBIRD by Ciel Pierlot (BOOK REVIEW)

    Ciel Pierlot – Bluebird (2022) “Her people barely know what it actually was. What it’s become is far more important. At a certain point, the truth ...
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  • Ballad of Black Tom (Feature) The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle posted on December 6, 2017
  • Book of the New Sun (Feature) The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe posted on November 13, 2017
  • 13 Minutes (Feature) 13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough posted on December 6, 2017
  • Interview with Steven Erikson posted on November 1, 2018
  • Paper Menagerie (Feature) The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu posted on December 6, 2017
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  • Binti (Feature) Binti by Nnedi Okorafor posted on November 18, 2017
  • MORDEW by Alex Pheby (Book Review) posted on August 6, 2020
  • Hex (Feature) HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt posted on November 15, 2017
  • Interview with Emma Newman posted on April 24, 2018

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