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Tag: Speculative

Review: This Water by Beverley Farmer

Tales of the otherworld.

Australian, Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Speculative

Review: Ghost Cities by Siang Lu

A game of truth and fiction.

Australian, China, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Speculative

Review: Stag Dance by Torrey Peters

Barnstorming fictions that detonate gender shibboleths.

Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novella, queer, Speculative, Trans writing, US

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Australian, Clim change, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Speculative

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Survival in authoritarian Ireland.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel, Speculative, War

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: Audition by Pip Adam

Ishiguro meets Le Guin.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Speculative, speculative fiction

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