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Interview with V. R. Ling (KING STREET RUN)
V.R. Ling (Victoria) has a life-long love for science fiction and fantasy, and by coincidence science and fiction have separately shaped her life; the science part ... -
THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley (BOOK REVIEW)
“Life is a series of slamming doors. We make irrevocable decisions every day. A twelve-second delay, a slip of the tongue, and suddenly your life is ... -
THE WARM HANDS OF GHOSTS by Katherine Arden (BOOK REVIEW)
“Give people God’s power-to build ships like islands, or fly like birds, or set fire to the bowels of earth like the devil in his damned ... -
ALL THE BLOOD WE SHARE by Camilla Bruce (BOOK REVIEW)
“We take care of our own. The rest can fend for themselves.” “It just will not do to let people see the maggots that crawl inside ... -
THE HOTHOUSE BY THE EAST RIVER by Muriel Spark (BOOK REVIEW)
“There isn’t any war and peace any more, no good and evil, no communism, no capitalism, no fascism. There’s one area of conflict left and that’s ... -
THE WHISPERING MUSE by Laura Purcell (BOOK REVIEW)
“You see, now, the beauty of tragedy? It has so many faces. Not all doom and gloom but nobility, honour and a hundred other qualities. You ... -
SKEIN ISLAND by Aliya Whiteley (BOOK REVIEW)
“I keep her trapped in my words. I hold her prisoner, and that is what she deserves” Aliya Whiteley writes across many different genres and lengths. ... -
THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Barnett (BOOK REVIEW)
‘Alice was a historian, which meant that part of her wanted that connection to people over the centuries, people who would never and could never meet ... -
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 ... -
A MAN LIES DREAMING & THE LUNACY COMMISSION by Lavie Tidhar (BOOK REVIEWS)
“But there you are wrong, for this is no longer the world you knew, the world any of us knew. That world is dead, everything is ...
