Book Reviews
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The Emperor’s Railroad by Guy Haley
You only got an idea of what the Gone Before might have been like from up high. I could see the lines of the streets and ... -
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
‘None of you have ever seen anyone like me,’ I said. ‘I come from a people who live near a small salty lake on the edge ... -
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
“Some books have to be sad to get across the ideas the author wants to talk about. Victor Hugo is describing a very sad part of ... -
HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
“This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear most.” Witches have a long history ... -
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
“One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant. “Probably not, though.” All The Birds In ... -
Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
“By its own reality, ecstasy makes people see that suffering is real. And without purpose. Ecstasy is a light that illuminates pain.” In Unquenchable Fire (1988), Rachel Pollack ... -
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“And that was that. You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when ... -
The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
“There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our ... -
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
“There is a principle called TSIM. Through deep time the universe complicates, all things whatsoever arising from the mother quantum, precisely so this man (writhing now ... -
Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
“The past,” she repeated, “it is always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different ...
