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Tag: Speculative

Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.

Classics, Fiction, Novel, Speculative, UK

Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Narnia, Philip Pulman’s multiverse, David Mitchell’s “metanovel”, Hogwarts … English writing is full of people disappearing through portals into other … More

British, Fiction, Novel, Speculative

Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne

These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Short stories, Spec-fic, Speculative

Review: The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay

The Animals In That Country is premised on the idea that if we could suddenly understand what are animals are saying, it would drive us insane.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Spec-fic, Speculative

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