Tag: Dystopia
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Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton – Book Review
Everything was so much clearer in space: stars, sounds, the entire electromagnetic spectrum coming alive all around her, like seeing fireflies dance in a dark meadow ... -
Julia’s Favourite #WomenInSFF – PART 2
So here we go with Part two of my list of favourite female SF/F authors. Once again, not an exhaustive list, just the ones I personally ... -
BLOODBUSTERS by Francesco Verso (Book Review)
“As soon as the liquid starts flowing so does the excitement. The blood beggars lose it at the sight of available blood. The first in line ... -
FIREWALKERS by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book Review)
Sometime around the end of 2017 or beginning of 2018, I saw a call for short stories for an anthology titled If This Goes On, edited ... -
The Mystery of Speculative Fiction: THE HEALER and THE CITY AND THE CITY
Murder mysteries and speculative fiction are two very different genres. But what would happen if Hercule Poirot had an excursion into Twilight, or Detective Inspector Rebus ... -
ZERO BOMB by M.T. Hill (Book Review)
“He couldn’t stop watching the news. Men and women at lecterns, frothing with ire. Falsehoods and weak pretexts. Lies and disinformation. Endless commentary and speculation, and ... -
A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher (Book Review)
The Good: A fresh take on what the ‘end of the world’ looks like, a story that is as heart-warming as it is heart-breaking, strikingly simple ... -
Fall by J.P. Ashman
John Wick meets Altered Carbon/Deus Ex Machina in this savagely surreal short-story from J.P. Ashman. Senfel, a soldier-type who survived ‘the fall’, leaving her with survivor’s ... -
Blackwing by Ed McDonald
THE GOOD: Tattoos that turn into crows, child-sorcerers that’ll cut you in two (vertically, diagonally, horizontally, they’re not fussy like that), veritable doomsday weaponry, ancient beings that ... -
Ex-Heroes by Peter Clines
There really isn’t that much to say about Peter Clines’ Ex-Heroes other than that it’s full of zombies, superheroes and fun. (Think X-Men meets The Walking Dead.) ...
