Book Reviews
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SENLIN ASCENDS by Josiah Bancroft (BOOK REVIEW)
‘“I’m going to feel very weak, and you’re going to feel very dumb. But that’s how it always is in the beginning. Learning starts with ... -
SCALES AND SENSIBILITY by Stephanie Burgis (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Death of parents (prior to book, some grieving on page); emotional abuse from family. Sensible, practical Elinor Tregarth really did plan to be the ... -
DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA by Harry Josephine Giles (BOOK REVIEW)
“An at the pairtners, futurs telt i’the wey o thir grip: ower closs or ower lowse or glydan by wi the aese o binary starns. (Ya, ... -
FAR FROM THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN by Tade Thompson (BOOK REVIEW)
“Space is the Brink of Death” “So many ways to die on the Ragtime, so little time.” Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Trilogy established him as one of ... -
THE MILL: A COSMOS by Bess Brenck Kalischer (BOOK REVIEW)
Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos (1922, translated by W. C. Bamberger 2021) “The concave mirrors were so oddly dimmed. The big city pierced ... -
WENDY, DARLING by A C Wise (BOOK REVIEW
Content warnings: A huge amount of medical abuse and gaslighting; depictions of abusive asylums; mentions of suicide; mentions of sexual assault. I don’t tend to consider ... -
THE FALL OF BABEL by Josiah Bancroft (BOOK REVIEW)
The Fall of Babel is the stunningly imaginative end to an amazing journey. Josiah Bancroft has crafted for himself and his readers the most exceptional and ... -
BEASTS AND BEAUTY: DANGEROUS TALES by Soman Chainani (BOOK REVIEW)
Content warnings: Traditional fairy tale grimness, including violence, death and murder, child abuse, forced marriage, and so on; racism and colourism. Nothing is graphically described. You ... -
Double Star by Robert A Heinlein – Book Review
The first sci-fi novel I ever read by Robert A. Heinlein got me from the very first: If a man walks in dressed like a hick ... -
THE ACTUAL STAR by Monica Byrne (BOOK REVIEW)
“The drink, the drums, the dance: as ever, these were the engines of the alteration of ordinary time. Xibalba felt so close, the liminal, the numinous, ...