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Author: Lucy Nield

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Lucy Nield

Lucy Nield PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool. Twitter: @lucy_nield1 Instagram: @lucy_dogs_books Lucy Nield grew up in Wales but now lives in Liverpool. She is a PhD student in the Department of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests surround animals in speculative fiction, ignited by Paolo Bacigalupi's 'The People of the Sand and Slag.' She is one of the organisers for the annual Current Research in Speculative Fiction conference at the University of Liverpool, where interdisciplinary researchers come together and present their research on SSF. Lucy's favourite writers are Bacigalupi, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Le Guin and Adrian Tchaikovsky. Her day job is in HR, but she loves to read, write and teach fiction. You can find Lucy on Twitter at @lucy_nield1

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    By Lucy Nield
    October 16, 2025
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    HERE AND ONLY HERE by Christelle Dabos, translated by Hildegarde Serle (BOOK REVIEW)

    ‘Paradise tastes of Nothing,’    Here and Only Here, is a tale riddled with teenage angst, desperation, anxiety and the absolute terror of going to high ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    October 7, 2025
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    THE UNDROWNED by Toby Vieira (BOOK REVIEW)

    Toby Vieira was born in New Delhi. He bought a copy of The Waste Land at the age of 16 and has not been able to ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    September 10, 2025
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    HOW TO SURVIVE CAMPING: THE MAN WITH NO SHADOW by Bonnie Quinn (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Humans can be monsters too. You’re just able to choose that for yourselves”   Bonnie has been writing for a long time, since she had access ...
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  • Book ReviewsScience FictionUtopian/Distopian
    By Lucy Nield
    July 24, 2025
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    KINGS OF A DEAD WORLD by Jamie Mollart (BOOK REVIEW)

    “People had been expecting the world to end for so long that no one really noticed when it did”   Jamie Mollart is the author of ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    November 14, 2024
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    THE DARK PATH by Michelle Sacks (BOOK REVIEW)

    (Trigger Warning for this novel: Child abuse, Domestic abuse) Sacks was born in South Africa, and holds a master’s degree in literature and film from the ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    April 9, 2024
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    THIEF LIAR LADY by D. L. Soria (BOOK REVIEW)

    ‘Truth is what we make it to be’ D. L. SORIA is the author of Thief Liar Lady, Iron Cast, Beneath the Citadel, and Fire with Fire. She lives with ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    January 29, 2024
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    Interview with James Kinsley (GREYSKIN)

    The Witness, rather than the Protagonist.  Interview with James Kinsley Kinsley’s first novella, Playtime’s Over, was published by Propolis in 2021. Playtime’s Over is the story of Will, a young man ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    December 18, 2023
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    FROM WITHIN, A DARKNESS by Ray Adams (BOOK REVIEW)

    “Attend the soul and keep the watch, as from within, a darkness comes” An avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy since his early years, Ray Adams ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    August 29, 2023
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    MIRRORS OF THE APOCALYPSE by Donald L. Moore (BOOK REVIEW)

    “We’ve been hearing a lot about how immortal we are […] but no one has been around long enough to prove it”   Donald L. Moore, ...
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    By Lucy Nield
    August 25, 2023
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    PLAYTIME’S OVER by James Kinsley (BOOK REVIEW)

    Kinsley’s first novella, Playtime’s Over, was published by Propolis in 2021. His second book, Greyskin is now out from Deixis Press. Greyskin is a fantasy western, a collection of interwoven settlers tales that paint a ...
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