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“It just goes round and round, one big circle. We’re trapped. All trapped’

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

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Warning, this review contains mild spoilers for the early parts of this book. Do you ever start reading a book and get the feeling that the author showed their hand too early? I was feeling that way when I started Kameron Hurley’s The Light Brigade. I had just gotten to the end of chapter two when I put the book down and thought. “Right, I think I know where we’re heading here. Hurley’s pulling a Paul Verhoeven on me. This book is going to be […]

These Spiders Are Not Deserving of Your Mortein – but Your Love

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  Do you like spiders? I like spiders. I don’t believe spiders deserve the bad rap they get. Some spiders are easier to share space with than others – like the seven-legged, fly-scoffing huntsman that seem to reside in every Australian household. They are good spiders. These seven-legged huntsmen are often called Fred. Another generation, another Fred. Do you know who else likes spiders? Adrian Tchaikovsky likes spiders. He loves them so much that he made them the protagonists of his very original evolution-based novel, […]

‘We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human.’ … ‘That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.’

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

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  Well, well, well, guess who had some catching up to do before ordering that new MurderBot Novel? Me. It was me. It’s not like I’m going out anywhere –  more like I’m sitting at home re-watching series Murderbot style. So I made some time for myself earlier this month and finally read the last two Murderbot novellas. In Rogue Protocol, Muderbot has been thinking of leaving the Corporate Rim. While they’re better at passing as human these days, they still worry about getting caught. […]

When the London Met Crashes into Urban fantasy

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch

Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch

Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch

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Like every Dresden Files fan, I’ve been flailing around for ages with the lack of new releases. And with the announcement that the next two books will be out later this year my impatience has not gotten better, but worse! So  I recently started hunting around for something to keep me occupied. And I ended up landing on Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant novels. I wasn’t entirely unfamiliar with these – I had read a sample of Rivers of London a few years ago, but I […]

Scenes From a Memory

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

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Do you know hat time of the year it is?   Yes, the Hugo nominees are out! And I’ve signed myself up again to read as many of them as possible. Going down the Best Novel list, I have already read Gideon the Ninth – which I reviewed here – and I loved the hell out of it. But now voting is going to be a bit complicated because A Memory Called Empire is another excellent, if tonally different, addition to the shortlist. And I’ll […]



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