Science Fiction
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HEL’S EIGHT by Stark Holborn (Book Review)
In Hel’s Eight, Holborn returns to the desolate moon of Factus and her ex-con protagonist Ten Low, both place and person strangely haunted by the “Ifs.” ... -
THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (BOOK REVIEW)
Nobody notices anything because nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin. And end. Lavanya Lakshminarayan is a Locus Award finalist and ... -
CHILDREN OF MEMORY by Adrian Tchaikovsky (BOOK REVIEW)
Having finished 2022 with Walking to Aldebaran I opened 2023 with another Tchaikovsky work Children of Memory, the third (and last?) in the series that began ... -
STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel (BOOK REVIEW)
Dr Eleven: What was it like for you, at the end? Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream ‘St. John’s my ... -
EMPATHY by Hoa Pham (BOOK REVIEW)
“We have always been we. Then they forced us to become you and I.” “What is free will? Do we honestly have free will when we ... -
PHOENIX CAFE by Gwyneth Jones (BOOK REVIEW)
“It’s simply that I’m trying to understand them this time, instead of looting. I want to feel their pain, their whole culture of grief and fear.” ... -
NORTH WIND by Gwyneth Jones (BOOK REVIEW)
“Race is bullshit, he said. Culture is everything.” “’It was the Aleutians,’ said the halfcaste, forgetting to protest that the war wasn’t really about gender. ‘The ... -
WHITE QUEEN by Gwyneth Jones (BOOK REVIEW)
“Everything was alive: rock, metal, food, tools. Everything was crawling with the infection of Aleutia: a world of flesh infested with the life of its people.” ... -
THE MOONDAY LETTERS by Emmi Itäranta (BOOK REVIEW)
“We carry within us every home, including those that no longer exist, so we’d have somewhere to return to.” “Pests have hitched rides with humans to ... -
BLACK FRIDAY 2050 by Joshua Krook (BOOK REVIEW(
“After all, company loyalty is attractive in a man” Joshua Krook is an emerging Australian writer and academic. He has been described as “softly spoken, very ...