Interesting article I think the longer you read the less likely you’ll be surprised but I quite like seeing the different spins and artist can do with the same building blocks still
Our SPFBO 11 team return this week with their fourth semi-finalist review. Find out what TO, Cat and Vinay thought of THREADS OF MEMORY by Richard Fierce and how their semi-finalist table is shaping up!
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Runalong Womble
Jodie reviews Flightless by Marie Parks recently.
Great discussion of the "it's not for everyone" book-description cliche (along with the main analysis)
The Fantasy Hive
There's no thanks nor praise to be found from the BBC as Russell T Davies and Bad Wolf withdraw and Doctor Who Christmas special plans are scrapped.
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Obstetrix by @naomikritzer.bsky.social is on shelves as of today!
An excellent read that we reviewed earlier this year. Top of our list for next year's Hugos
If anything, events are outpacing the fiction we turn to as a source of comfort in these trying times
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HUGE news, I am still reeling and can't believe I finally get to share this:
I'm writing HELLRAISER!
Artist Alessio Avallone and I have SUCH sights to show you...
Full announcement for this 5-issue event here: bloody-disgusting.com/news/3955403...
weirdly, I'm now thinking about another book involving a terrible mother, though less bleakly inventively than this one. would you like to meet a giant crow? hang out with a scientist who is processing some guilt in questionable ways? think about what history & pain do to people & places? here u go!
Niall Harrison
Thrilled to share the final cover of my cursed film novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, now sporting a quote by the incredible "wins two major awards for the same book in one night" author, Stephen Graham Jones 🤩
opening September 15 from Titan! 📽️
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Single Syllable Symphony: for this month's Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at language and worldbuilding in Rebecca Gransden’s FIGURES CROSSING THE FIELD TOWARDS THE GROUP (Tangerine Press)
I'm here with a review for Flightless by Marie Parks. Heists! Cool worldbuilding! A thief you can't help but love.
Come read all about it!
#Booksky #bookblogger #Flightless
Pail Kincaid: Today … the writer of … new work must overcome not only the … history of literature, but … the 70 years of my own reading. In other words, the very thing that makes me a reviewer is also the very thing that gets in the way of my reviewing.
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Riff is a disgraced, low-class thief. All of his hopes hinge on Ascension, so he can rejoin the elite, upper-class thieves guild he belonged to as a youth. When he’s offered a rare, lucrative…
"This novel slides between genres elegantly, and that in-between land is exactly where I love to read."
Kiersten Kaschock's An Impossibility of Crows is eerie, sharp, and complicated. Read @mollytempleton.com's review:
Ancillary Review of Books
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Reactor Magazine
There is a moment in the latest Strange Horizons podcast in which my friend Duncan Lawie says: I read a Paul Kincaid review, about five years ago, of a book that I was really enjoying, and I read i…
Roseanna Pendlebury The first thing that stands out in Rebecca Gransden’s Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press), joint winner of the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize, i…
