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Book Review: BLACKOUT and ALL CLEAR by Connie Willis

Connie Willis is the only writer I can think of in science fiction who can combine high tension with dry wit; belly laughs with nail biting; and clever scientific ideas with ripping yarns. Her latest...

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Short Story Review: The Storyteller’s Wife by Eugie Foster

The idea of children being stolen by fairies and some lifeless changeling being substituted to fool the parents into believing  it real has been around in fairytales for centuries. But the substitution...

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Book Review: SEA CHANGE by S.M. Wheeler

Lilly is the unhappy child of two powerful but dysfunctional parents who despise each other. The girl, however, finds solace at the ocean, where she meets and befriends an eloquent, intelligent sea...

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Book Review: A THOUSAND PERFECT THINGS by Kay Kenyon

In her epic new work, A Thousand Perfect Things (Premier Digital Publishing), award-winning author Kay  Kenyon creates an alternate 19th century earth ruled by the warring factions of scientific...

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Clinging to the Wreckage: How to Save Science Fiction

In its introduction to its list of the best science fiction and fantasy of the year, the io9 website says 2012 was a great year for books that transcended genre boundaries. I had no problem with them...

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Book Review: ANNO DRACULA: JOHNNY ALUCARD by Kim Newman

Kim Newman’s latest novel, Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard(Titan Books) is, in my view, the first essential vampire book of the decade. It combines rollercoaster action with satire, mordant wit and scares...

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Book Review: THIS RIVER AWAKENS by Steven Erikson

It’s 1971. Owen Brand and his family move to the riverside town of Middlecross in an attempt to escape poverty. For the twelve-year-old, it’s the chance for a new life and an end to his family’s...

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The Art of Big ‘O’

If there is anything that’s guaranteed to flush out my inner geek, its science fiction and fantasy art on album covers. Long before the word “geek” came into more common usage, I was a schoolboy who...

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Interview: Kim Newman

I recently had occasion to highly praise British author, Kim Newman‘s fun, postmodern take on the dracula mythos, Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard (review). Kim kindly agreed to the interview which...

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Book Review & Three Book Giveaway: Dangerous Women edited by George...

The dangerous women who inhabit the pages of this huge cross-genre anthology range in temperament from slightly irritable to out and out bloodthirsty. With a few stops en route through feisty and...

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Book Review: THE TROOP by Nick Cutter

In his endnotes to this excellent horror novel, Nick Cutter acknowledges a debt to the structure of Stephen King’s Carrie, although The Troop (Gallery Books) bears no resemblance to that book. What it...

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Book Review: THE DOCTOR AND THE DINOSAURS by Mike Resnick

It’s April, 1885, and famed shootist, John “Doc” Holliday, is dying of consumption. He is visited at his sick bed by shape-shifting medicine man and great Comanche chief, Geronimo, and offered a deal:...

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Review: Assassin’s Creed (Graphic Novels)

As a player — and fan — of the Assassin’s Creed on the Xbox 360, I was delighted to have the opportunity to review graphic novels based on the game. The first collection, The Ankh of Isis Trilogy...

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Book Review: ALIEN: OUT OF THE SHADOWS by Tim Lebbon

The deep-ore mining vessel, Marion, is in orbit above the inhospitable planet LV178 from which the Kelland Mining Company is extracting precious trimonite. During a shift change, the Marion’s crew of...

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Review + Giveaway: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 8,...

When it comes to anthologies, it’s almost unheard of that I enjoy every story. So it was an enormous pleasure and surprise to find that this was the case with The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of...

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Review: Lightspeed Magazine 48, ed. John Joseph Adams

Though this is the first issue of Lightspeed I’ve read, there’s no question in my mind that it’s easily the equal, in terms of content, of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction although, to be...

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Review: Women Destroy Science Fiction! Lightspeed Special

When I was around 11 years old, a girl in our English class read aloud her creative writing assignment. It was about a soldier in the first World War, so badly wounded that he couldn’t stop the rats in...

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Book Review: KOKO TAKES A HOLIDAY by Kieran Shea

Kieran Shea’s first novel, Koko Takes a Holiday (Titan Books), is an extremely fast-paced chunk of science fiction space operetta with attitude. In common with its pulp fiction antecedents, it’s...

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Book Review: Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of The Weird West, ed. John Joseph...

I enjoy a good Western now and then. Mainly cinematic ones, though I have read a number of novels over the years. The weird western is a relatively new phenomenon, emerging probably from some of the...

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Book Review: The Ultra Thin Man by Patrick Swenson

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS WHAT SOME MAY CONSIDER MINOR SPOILERS. Blending elements of noir crime and science fiction isn’t a new thing, but Patrick Swenson in The Ultra Thin Man (Tor), tackles the mashup...

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