Author: Jonathan Thornton
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Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 – Edited by Melissa Edmundson (BOOK REVIEW)
“I knew all the time that for a man who had gone to bed in a commonplace hall bedroom in a very commonplace little town such ... -
ONE LOVE CHIGUSA by Soji Shimada (BOOK REVIEW)
“He felt cold. There was an unpleasant metallic noise, a ringing coming from somewhere. He saw everything in a flash. The cliff behind him was in ... -
Kameron Hurley – The Light Brigade
“People succumb to fear, no matter the government. The everyday person doesn’t want war, but it’s remarkably easy to convince them. It’s the government that determines ... -
NEON LEVIATHAN by T R Napper (Book Review)
“We can only exist in the places they’ve forgotten. Our external world was colonised centuries ago, given over to the oligarchs. Our internal spaces are being ... -
MORDEW by Alex Pheby (Book Review)
“It is a misapprehension to imagine that only the reader reads. The book reads, too, when its pages are opened. Your souls spill words into the ... -
The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again by M. John Harrison (Book Review)
“If all change is sea change, he thought on the train back to Mortlake, then he could describe his own crisis – whatever it had been ... -
FRESHWATER by Akwaeke Emezi (Book Review)
“It was difficult to accept not being human but still being contained in a human body. For that one, though, the secret was in the situation. ... -
DEAD ASTRONAUTS by Jeff VanderMeer (Book Review)
“You want. Things to be words. That are not words. Could never be words. Your fox is some other construct. We did not agree to that. ... -
The Best of R. A. Lafferty (2019) by R. A. Lafferty (Book Review)
“’There is only one story in the world,’ he said, ‘and it pulls two ways. There is the reason part that says “Hell, it can’t be” ... -
THE STRESS OF HER REGARD by Tim Powers (Book Review)
“Byron nodded. ‘These creatures aren’t especially good visually, but they are purely matches in a powder keg when it comes to language. I wonder how many ...
