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Tag: science fiction

Review: This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

A head-spinning romp through time.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Time travel

Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.

Classics, Climate change, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, speculative fiction

Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There are a lot of feelings in Mary Shelley’s cautionary tale of science run amuck, but her depiction of nature in all its untrammelled grandeur is still something to behold.

Classics, Climate change, Frankenstein, Novel, science, science fiction, speculative fiction, Switzerland

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A white middle class New York family heads into the woods and the world ends in Rumaan Alam’s gleefully silly horror-comedy.
Bodies Of Light tells the story of Holly, a 40-something woman who lives in Vermont. When she is one day contacted by someone who thinks she might be someone else on Facebook, the novel cuts back into the past to explore Holly’s childhood in Melbourne - and why she has taken on several new identities during her life.
A tricksy collection of poetry from poet and academic Kate Lilley.
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