Science Fiction
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AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS by Rivers Solomon (BOOK REVIEW)
“That’s what ghosts really are, Aint Melusine had said, the past refusing to be forgot. She’d been helping Aster scrub down X deck with ammonia and ... -
WILD SEED by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“She shook her head. She knew now how the slaves had felt as they lay chained on the bench, the slaver’s hot iron burning into their ... -
IMAGO by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“I wasn’t surprised this time. My body wanted him. My body sought to please him. What would happen to me when I had two or more ... -
ADULTHOOD RITES by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“Human beings fear difference,” Lilith had told him once. “Oankali crave difference. Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and ... -
DAWN by Octavia E. Butler (BOOK REVIEW)
“But what was the problem? You said we had two incompatible characteristics. What were they?” Jdahya made a rustling noise that could have been a sigh, ... -
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Book Review
Published by: Tor Genre: sci-fi space opera Pages: 560 Format: ebook Review Copy: Courtesy of NetGalley Shards of Earth is Adrian Tchaikovsky’s first bona fide attempt ... -
THE CADUCA by Elaine Graham-Leigh (BOOK REVIEW)
The old adage that good sci-fi is about present times but cloaked in a futuristic setting proves its worth with The Caduca – set 900 years ... -
SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon (BOOK REVIEW)
“Sometimes it seemed like there was a creature inside her, lurking, trying to bust through her bones, a demented birth. Mam would be a pile of ... -
HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER by Jeff VanderMeer (BOOK REVIEW)
“Silvina wrote that even through the poisoned landscape, we must love it. We must love what has been damaged, because everything has been damaged. And to ... -
TEN LOW by Stark Holborn
The eponymous protagonist of Stark Holborn’s far future set sci-fi novel is an ex-convict with a past she is trying to make amends for, but chance ...
