Dystopian
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The Mystery of Speculative Fiction: THE HEALER and THE CITY AND THE CITY
Murder mysteries and speculative fiction are two very different genres. But what would happen if Hercule Poirot had an excursion into Twilight, or Detective Inspector Rebus ... -
THE CALL by Peadar O’Guilin (Book Review)
At a convention recently, I heard O’Guilin explain how he didn’t realise he was writing Young Adult fiction when he started as an author; that this ... -
LOST OBJECTS by Marian Womack (Book Review)
“And then came the giant insects, like dark angels who had climbed up from hell by mistake. The centipedes, the caterpillars, the moths and the butterflies, ... -
ZERO BOMB by M.T. Hill (Book Review)
“He couldn’t stop watching the news. Men and women at lecterns, frothing with ire. Falsehoods and weak pretexts. Lies and disinformation. Endless commentary and speculation, and ... -
INFINITE DETAIL by Tim Maughan (Book Review)
“Well, what did you think was going to happen? After you broke everything? Really? What did you think? That everything would magically take care of itself? ... -
RAVENCRY by Ed McDonald (Book Review)
The Good: Compelling characters (and creatures!), plot twists aplenty, and a return to one of the most nightmarish landscapes in fantasy, this time cranked up on ... -
What Not by Rose Macaulay (Book Review)
“I don’t care how many people we murder, the secret will leak out. Things always do leak out. Never, in the course of twenty-nine years of ... -
The Migration by Helen Marshall (Book Review)
There are aspects of Helen Marshall’s debut that feel like a young adult work – a young female protagonist in a collapsing contemporary society haunted by ... -
A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher (Book Review)
The Good: A fresh take on what the ‘end of the world’ looks like, a story that is as heart-warming as it is heart-breaking, strikingly simple ... -
The Hive Reads… The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Welcome to the eighth instalment of our ‘Hive Reads’ feature! (You can read the others here.) After settling on The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin as our next read, ...
