Josiah Bancroft’s “Books of Babel” Tetralogy Goes Out with an Almighty Bang (3)
This post concludes my review of the Fantasy novel, The Fall of Babel, by Josiah Bancroft, the last in theContinue Reading
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Josiah Bancroft’s “Books of Babel” Tetralogy Goes Out with an Almighty Bang (2)
Fans of Josiah Bancroft’s popular series, The Books of Babel, had to wait two long years for The Fall ofContinue Reading
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Josiah Bancroft’s “Books of Babel” Tetralogy Goes Out with an Almighty Bang
Fans of Josiah Bancroft’s popular series, The Books of Babel, had to wait two long years for The Fall ofContinue Reading
All the little angels…
There’s a thing that really good authors do – and I don’t know what’s the word for it – theyContinue Reading
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If you’re the last – To Be Taught If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers
An elegantly worded, thoughtful and compelling novel about travellers in outer space who face a worse choice than life-or-death. ReviewContinue Reading
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Should have had “Raven” in the title – Quantum Shadows, by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
L.E. Modesitt Jr. is world-famous and has written a formidable list of Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, so long thatContinue Reading
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A strange and moving book – Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
If you enjoy poetry as well as Science Fiction, you will appreciate Dead Astronauts. The novel has elements of both.Continue Reading
Going off the rails – Too many alterations in the TV version of “Altered Carbon”
In my review of Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon, I wrote that season 1 of the TV version of the bookContinue Reading
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The grossest – and most poetic – scenes of violence ever – Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan
The concept on which Altered Carbon is based is ingenious – it was futuristic and fantastical when Richard Morgan wrote theContinue Reading
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A good bet for a Hugo Award – Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik
There are authors whose restraint, clear vision and graceful expression make their novels a quiet joy to read. I haveContinue Reading
The long, hard road to getting a book published – Josiah Bancroft responds to eager fans
Josiah Bancroft is one of those authors who has defined his creative process with care and can explain how heContinue Reading
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Want some Whuffie for that? Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – The reprint edition
Cory Doctorow writes about the future as if it were today, as if it were about him and his buddies,Continue Reading
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The scripts work – does the novel? Night Vale – A Novel, by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Can the same subjects, settings and characters be successfully used in a podcast, and in published script format, and in aContinue Reading
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High calibre writing – Arm of the Sphinx, by Josiah Bancroft
Some writers write so clearly, elegantly and expressively that reading their words is like drinking a glass of the bestContinue Reading
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The fatal thrills of zero inhibitions – The Pleasure Model Repairman, by Ruuf Wangersen
Any novel that has the words “pleasure model” in the title could be automatically relegated to the category of “chickContinue Reading
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A Triumph of Imagination – Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
I wrote this review of Lincoln in the Bardo carefully, and I spent some time making sense of it, becauseContinue Reading
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Mental-floss on a grand scale – Death’s End by Cixin Liu
It has been said that many authors seem to be unable to grasp or describe how big outer space is.Continue Reading
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Death and the Flight of Birds in The Discworld – Reaper Man, by Terry Pratchett
Death is a difficult subject to write about, but particularly when it is not coincidental but core to a book’s theme orContinue Reading
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