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BLACK MOUTH by Ronald Malfi (BOOK REVIEW)
“In the summer of my eleventh year, a monster came to Black Mouth. It came in the night, slinking below the sightline of normal folks, destined ... -
DENIAL by Jon Raymond, reviewed by T.O.Munro
The phrase climate fiction and its abbreviation cli-fi was coined by journalist Dan Bloom[i] in a 2011 Press release for a novel Polar City Red (2012). Since ... -
GUN ISLAND by Amitav Ghosh THE UNSEEN ACADEMIC
This is an (increasingly) occasional series of posts drawing on my excursion into the academic side of creative writing doing a PhD project at Queen’s University ... -
TEMERAIRE by Naomi Novik (BOOK REVIEW)
The plot to Naomi Novik’s debut is essentially that, following the capture of a French frigate Novik’s hero Captain Laurence finds himself in sudden possession of ... -
Interview with GR Matthews (Seven Deaths of an Empire)
G. R. Matthews began reading in the cot. His mother, at her wits end with the constant noise and unceasing activity, would plop him down on ... -
THE WOUNDED ONES by G. D. Penman (Book Review)
The Wounded Ones is the second installment in G. D. Penman’s Witch of Empire series, and I was very fortunate to be granted a copy via ... -
SIXTEEN WAYS TO DEFEND A WALLED CITY by K. J. Parker (Book Review)
Sometimes I adore an audio book, and it’s hard for me to tell how much of my enjoyment stems from the narration, and how much from ... -
Happy Birthday Mike!
That’s right, it’s our Mike’s birthday! If you’re (somehow) unfamiliar with Mike, he’s the chap that’s written over sixty posts here on the Hive. Publicist-botherer-extraordinaire, Mike: ... -
SHOREFALL by Robert Jackson Bennett (Book Review)
Shorefall is the much-anticipated second book in the Founders Trilogy by Hugo-nominated author Robert Jackson Bennett, and it might be helpful to familiarise yourself with my ... -
NEVER DIE by Rob J Hayes (SPFBO Finalist Review)
Phase 2 of the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off is drawing to a close at the end of this month! Keep track of the finalists’ scoreboard here. If ...
