Book Reviews
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SOFTWARE by Rudy Rucker (BOOK REVIEW)
“Intellectually he had always known it was possible. A robot, or a person, has two parts: hardware and software. The hardware is the actual physical material ... -
THE WALL by John Lanchester THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break from secondary schooling ... -
BROTHER RED by Adrian Selby – BOOK REVIEW
I’ve been hugely enthusiastic about Adrian Selby’s previous work – the enigmatic, epistolic Snakewood and the harrowing, heartfelt Winter Road – so it shouldn’t be a ... -
THE SONG OF THE SYCAMORE by Edward Cox (BOOK REVIEW)
“The dead call me Sycamore,” I told the storm above Old Castle. “I am their Shepherd” The Song of the Sycamore by Edward Cox is a ... -
ORDERS OF BATTLE by Marko Kloos (BOOK REVIEW)
Reviewer’s Note: As this is a review for the seventh book in Marko Kloos’s ongoing Frontlines series, it will contain minor spoilers for overarching story elements ... -
BLACKTHORN WINTER by Liz Williams (BOOK REVIEW)
‘“What, you mean they aren’t human?” “No, I mean they aren’t people. Not like you and me. Well, not like me, anyway. They look like us, ... -
One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence (Impossible Times #1)
Published by: 47North Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 201 Format: ebook Purchased Copy from Amazon Do you ever get exhausted by humongous fantasy sagas? I don’t blame ... -
THE OLD DRIFT by Namwali Serpell (BOOK REVIEW)
“Indeed, the workings of animal biology seemed to mirror the workings of human society. Joseph’s ecology lecturer introduced the students to three terms for how organisms ... -
ALL SYSTEMS RED by Martha Wells – THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing. Having taken a career break from secondary schooling ... -
THE EVIDENCE by Christopher Priest (BOOK REVIEW)
“Then it suddenly struck me that what I was doing to my novel draft was similar to what I knew of mutability. The original text, the ...
