Tag: speculative fiction
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SHARK HEART: A LOVE STORY by Emily Habeck (BOOK REVIEW)
“Are we all just actors, performing some unbound art form for God, the audience of space? I wish I could have seen then what I know ... -
CONQUEST by Nina Allan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Frank says information is corrosive, like acid – once you touch it, you’re changed by it, you find you’ve been burned. Not long after Frank went ... -
HIT PARADE OF TEARS by Izumi Suzuki (BOOK REVIEW)
Izumi Suzuki – Hit Parade of Tears (2023, translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Helen O’Horan and Daniel Joseph) “Hey, it’s pretty common these days. Some ... -
THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (BOOK REVIEW)
“Perhaps the future is a joke, after all, and they should stop taking themselves so seriously.” “Absolute power is its own weakness. It is in its ... -
THE WHISPERING MUSE by Laura Purcell (BOOK REVIEW)
“You see, now, the beauty of tragedy? It has so many faces. Not all doom and gloom but nobility, honour and a hundred other qualities. You ... -
BERG by Ann Quin (BOOK REVIEW)
“A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father…” And with that iconic opening line, ... -
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 ... -
EXPECT ME TOMORROW by Christopher Priest (BOOK REVIEW)
“How much longer could they continue to live here? The impossibility of life in this constant heat, the risk and inconvenience of venturing outside, the sense ... -
HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK by Sequoia Nagamatsu (BOOK REVIEW)
“Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like ... -
CURRENT RESEARCH IN SPECULATIVE FICTION (CRSF) 30th June to 1st July – Conference Report by T.O.Munro
Delegates hailing from France, Spain and Italy joined UK based delegates and online participants from as far afield as California, Dehli and Australia at CRSF’s first ...
