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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 ReviewsFantasyWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 15, 2022
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    FROM BLUE TO BLACK by Joel Lane (BOOK REVIEW)

    Joel Lane – From Blue To Black (2000, reissued 2022) “He kissed me fiercely. ‘This place is getting torn apart,’ he said. ‘Tower blocks, expressways. Building ...
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  • Book ReviewsCyberpunkScience Fiction
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 8, 2022
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    36 STREETS by T. R. Napper (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Not the soldiers. Those – those are the same as soldiers anywhere. The Chinese invaders return to their homes from the battlefield here, broken. Their bodies ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 7, 2022
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    SLEEP HAS HIS HOUSE by Anna Kavan (BOOK REVIEW)

    “It is night; and there is nothing false here. Night is reliable. Night does not dazzle us with treacherous fires. Night keeps a dark enduring silence ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionUtopian/Distopian
    By Jonathan Thornton
    February 3, 2022
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    THEY by Kay Dick (BOOK REVIEW)

    Kay Dick – They (1977) “’One must never forget,’ Russel said. ‘I hold it in my mind all the time. That way I’m continually on the ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 31, 2022
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    I AM LAZARUS by Anna Kavan (BOOK REVIEW)

    “What a fiendishly efficient machine war is, she thought, remembering him as he was and the writing, a bit immature but sensitive and direct and with ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyLiterary
    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 26, 2022
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    UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch (BOOK REVIEW)

    “We all live in the interstices of each other’s lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.” Under The Net (1954) ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 21, 2022
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    ASYLUM PIECE by Anna Kavan (BOOK REVIEW)

    “What’s the good of appealing to senseless machinery? The cogs are moving, the engines are slowly gathering momentum, a low humming noise is perceptible even now. ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionUtopian/Distopian
    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 18, 2022
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    THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY by Laura Jean McKay (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Animals are straight up like that. It’s people you have to watch out for.” “Birds are making nonsensical sounds above, but all around me, trails of ...
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  • Book ReviewsFantasyWeird
    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 14, 2022
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    THE RUINS OF CONTRACOEUR AND OTHER PRESENCES by Joyce Carol Oates (BOOK REVIEW)

    “What is interesting here, from a disinterested/objective perspective, is how the unimaginable improbable will become, within a surprisingly short period of time, the imagined probable. How ...
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    By Jonathan Thornton
    January 3, 2022
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    Jonathan’s Most Anticipated Reissues for 2022

    Goodness, it’s that time of the year again! As we batten down the hatches and distract ourselves from the outside world by getting excited about the ...
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  • Ballad of Black Tom (Feature) The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle posted on December 6, 2017
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  • 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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