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Dead Man’s Reach

Dead Man’s Reach

they’ll automatically love the tyke as much as you do. I mean it’s a kid (book), and who doesn’t love a kid? Now, if you had come in with a…

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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Posted: March 8, 2016 by Vanessa in Books We Love Meta: Ken Liu, Science Fiction, Anthology, Short Fiction
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

the path Tilly wants them to go? I’ve read stories like this before, so at first it felt predictable, but in ends not completely comfortably. Definitely thought-provoking. In “Good Hunting”…

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Golden Son

Golden Son

…rallied around Darrow and became his closest friends and companions. This theme was continued, to my great excitement, in this book, only it was brought to a completely new level….

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What Dreams Shadows Cast

Posted: October 21, 2016 by Writer Dan in Books that are Mediocre Meta: Barbara J. Webb, Science Fantasy
What Dreams Shadows Cast

…was busy trying to remember who all of the characters were and how they fit into the story. As I slowly became acclimated, everything started coming back, but it took…

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The New Voices of Science Fiction

The New Voices of Science Fiction

company to relay holographic projections of a band’s concerts to literally everywhere in the entire world. To bring in more customers though, the tech company will fill the actual crowds…

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Zenith

Zenith

ZENITH opens on Androma Racella, aka Andy, aka The Bloody Baroness, flying free. She and her all-female crew are between jobs when they’re intercepted by Andy’s old flame, Dextro….

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The Antidote

Posted: February 19, 2019 by Jane Funk in Books that are Mediocre Meta: Shelley Sackier, Fantasy, Young Adult
The Antidote

…of causing mischief and spending all her free time with Xavi and Rye comes to an abrupt end when disaster strikes the kingdom of Fireli. A miasmic plague sweeps in…

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Arabella of Mars

Posted: September 11, 2017 by Vanessa in Books that are Mediocre Meta: David D. Levine, Steampunk
Arabella of Mars

…mores, and a Burroughs-like Mars landscape. David Levine’s ARABELLA OF MARS has been compared as a mashup of Horatio Hornblower, Burroughs’s Mars books, and Jane Austin, a conglomeration of all…

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Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

Posted: April 18, 2019 by Writer Dan in Books We Love Meta: K.J. Parker, Fantasy, Humor
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City

…and sarcastic and darkly humorous in all the best ways. It never takes me more than a few pages to come across something that makes me chuckle, or guffaw, or…

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Science Fiction 101

Science Fiction 101

…that Asimov is at his best in short stories and these are among the best the genre has to offer. They are simple, beautiful, touching and frightening in equal measures….