There is something about this book that manages to transcend being just a great story and manages to reach out and touch the reader. The great “classic” works of speculative fiction, think Lord of the Rings or Dune, impress the reader with grand visions of alien and fantastical worlds. Transporting you from your own world into the author’s vision, leaving
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Reviewed by Srijani Ganguly As the title seems to suggest, there are plenty of battles in Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s ‘This Is How You Lose the Time War’. Each side is engrossed in a continuous game of one-upmanship, turning and twisting the events of the past and the future to suit their objective. To do so, they infiltrate the
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Reviewed by Srijani Ganguly If you’ve read ‘Story of Your Life’ or seen its film adaptation, Arrival, you’ll be well-versed with Ted Chiang’s style of science fiction. It’s filled with high-level theories and otherworldly phenomena, but at the heart of the story there is always an emotional plot; the kind which will not only make you a bit teary-eyed but
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Reviewed by Philip O’Brien And here we are, at the start of another Polity universe trilogy. For those already familiar with Neal Asher’s books we have new characters piling in whilst old favourites either get a starring role or make a quick (and sometimes otherwise) cameo appearance—Cutter, I’m looking at you! For newcomers to this author don’t let that put
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The heresy unfolds The Black Library are literally releasing these books as fast as I can read them. Since I reviewed Horus Rising a few months ago, two more have been released (in the new Siege of Terra series/sub-series) with a third due in March. I really need to pick the pace up! This is the fourth entry in the
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Vampire Science is the second instalment in the BBC series of novels, The Eighth Doctor Adventures, and continues the path of The Doctor and his companion Sam who were first introduced in The Eight Doctors. In true Doctor Who style, there are already several adventures that the pair has embarked upon between the start of this book and where the
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The heresy revealed Here we are again. Galaxy in Flames is book three in the five hundred book long series The Horus Heresy. Ok, five hundred books might be exaggeration, the current count is fifty four, but I’m convinced that they’re being written faster than I’m able to read them. They may as well be infinite. I’m only on book
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The Heresy Takes Root This is the second book in the umpteen books long Horus Heresy series from the Black Library. The review of the first book can be seen here. Following on from Dan Abnett’s excellent opener of Horus Rising was always going to be a challenge and, for the most part, McNeill’s entry in the series lives up
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The seeds of heresy are sown What have I started here? As readers, we are used to embarking on a new series with an ominous mountain of books standing between us and the conclusion of the epic tale we have started. Those people who came late to A Song of Ice and Fire will know the feeling. Those of us
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This book is the first in a series of BBC tie-in novels known as “The 8th Doctor Adventures”, commissioned and published in the interim years between the show ending in 1989 and being relaunched in 2005. The series of books ran alongside another set of releases known as “The Past Doctor Adventures.” For both of these, the clue is in
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