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SFR: Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls by Rachel Pollack
Rachel Pollack presents a shamanic noir 14,447 word novelette and introduces us to the Traveller and private eye Jack Shade, who also appears in a more recent tale ‘The Queen of Eyes’ and at least one...
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Audiobook Review: Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
Where do you go after the literally shocking ending of Broken Homes. PC Peter Grant, Britain’s only official apprentice Wizard, had been investigated events at architecturally curious high-rise estate...
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Review: The Three by Sarah Lotz
I finished reading The Three the same day as the horrendous air-crash in Germany, and seeing the events unfold on TV. Because of the intensity of Sarah Lotz’s horror thriller I had emotional connection...
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Review: The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing by Tarquin Hall
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing is the second published case of the Indian detective Vish Puri. Early one Delhi morning a 20-foot vision of the Goddess Kali appears to a morning session of the...
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Review: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2015)
There are books that when you first hear about them excite and tease you, though if, like me, you’ve heard about them months before they come out that excitement can fade, mostly because other books...
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Audiobook Review: The Dark Defiles by Richard Morgan (2014)
The Dark Defiles is final book of the A Land Fit For Heroes trilogy. It’s also the longest. The audiobook comes in at an impressive twenty-four hours. That’s a lot of story-time though in pages it...
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Review: The Incorruptibles by John Hornor Jacobs (2014)
The quote on the back of The Incorruptibles is from Patrick Rothfuss and goes likes this: ‘One part ancient Rome, two parts wild west, one part Faust. A pinch of Tolkien, of Lovecraft, of Dante. This...
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Review: Thief’s Magic by Trudi Canavan (2015)
Reading a popular author always sets expectations. Mostly the one that my unconscious sets for me is, ‘please let this book/author be good.’ Notice I said ‘good’ not ‘outstanding’. Don’t get me wrong I...
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Review: The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham (1929)
Imagine you are invited to a party at a country mansion only to find yourself the following day as a prisoner. Well, that’s what happens to Dr George Abbershaw and a group of London’s brightest young...
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Review: Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal
Comics are one of those things I’ve fallen out of love with. I used to be an avid collector and have a few long boxes full of comics to prove it but I wasn’t very good at keeping up with them. I know...
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