Book Reviews
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MASTER OF DJINN by P. Djèlí Clark (BOOK REVIEW)
Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark is the first full length novel set in his alternate Cairo universe. Other works set in this same universe ... -
The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (Book Review)
Old science fiction! It can be endlessly entertaining in wholly unintentional ways—I owe linguistic drift alone for more than a few chuckles as I explored the ... -
TERMINAL BOREDOM by Izumi Suzuki (BOOK REVIEW)
Izumi Suzuki – Terminal Boredom (2021, translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Aiko Masubuchi, and Helen O’Horan) “All the shitty stuff stops ... -
FURY OF A DEMON by Brian Naslund (BOOK REVIEW)
Please note this review may contain mild spoilers for Blood of an Exile and Sorcery of a Queen. The power has shifted and as Empress ... -
The Headlock of Destiny by Samuel Gately – Book Review
Neither beer nor wrestling appeal to me, so why on Earth did I have so much fun with The Headlock of Destiny, a book about—what else ... -
THE CITY OF BRASS and THE KINGDOM OF COPPER by S. A. Chakraborty (BOOK REVIEWS)
“Fog shrouded the great city of brass, obscuring its towering minarets of sandblasted glass and hammered metal and veiling its golden domes. Rain seeped off the ... -
GUN ISLAND by Amitav Ghosh THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an (increasingly) occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing doing a PhD project at Queen’s University ... -
THE ART OF SPACE TRAVEL AND OTHER STORIES by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“I begin to understand that his is what time travel actually is: we can each of us go back in time a little. We extend a ... -
THE LAST DAYS OF HONG KONG by G. D. Penman (BOOK REVIEW)
I’VE JUST WORKED OUT THE TITLE. That’s so damn clever… The title obviously, not me. Damn I hope you gave yourself a proper pat on the ... -
THESE ALIEN SKIES by C.T. Rwizi (BOOK REVIEW)
This is a delightful little story – a mere 25 pages long in its Amazon listing, yet with themes that could have easily born a longer ...
