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Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson (Tor Novellas)
A post climate-change novella that has a brilliant take on time travel. Loved it.
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Brief Thoughts On This Year’s BSFA Novel Shortlist
I’m not British so I can’t vote for the BSFA, but here are my thoughts anyway.
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Austral by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
Another terrific novel from an author who doesn’t get the recognition he deserves.
Read MoreWeek 17: Don’t Look Away – it’s the HUGOOOOOS, oh and the Clarke Awards and a truly fantastic book
Books Read Into Everywhere by Paul McAuley The Shore by Sara Taylor Currently Reading The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan (1) This week saw the announcement of the Hugo Award and Clarke Award nominees – one rinsing the taste of...
Read MoreWeek 16: Pulitzers, Brilliant Kelly Link and not being in on the joke
Books Read The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood Currently Reading Into Everywhere by Paul McAuley (1) This year’s Pulitzer prize for fiction was awarded to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s début novel The Sympathizer which I...
Read MoreWho Should Win The Hugo Award For Best Novel
As a reminder here are the nominees (you’ll note that they’re a little different to the nominees that were originally announced with Marko Kloos deciding to pull his novel for consideration. More props to him)....
Read MoreBook Review – In the Mouth of Whale by Paul McAuley
Fomalhaut was first colonised by the posthuman Quick, who established an archipelago of thistledown cities and edenic worldlets within the star’s vast dust belt. Their peaceful, decadent civilisation was swiftly conquered...
Read MoreBook Review – Gardens of the Sun by Paul McAuley
Part technical manual, part future history, Gardens of the Sun – a direct sequel to the Quiet War – is at its best when it focuses on the tumultuous changes occurring on Earth and the outer planets of the solar...
Read MoreBook Review – The Quiet War by Paul McAuley
If I didn’t have this compulsion to finish everything I start I would have stopped reading The Quiet War around page 50. But in spite of the voice in my head telling me that life is too short to be reading stodgy prose, endless...
Read MoreNominating the Hugos – Novellas, Novelettes and Short Stories
Because I’m a realist and I know I’ll run out of time, I thought I’d throw my nominations for novella, novelette and short story together in one post. Novellas ‘‘Times Table’’, Robert Shearman (Everyone’s Just...
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