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Blog postThe band won’t make any money in remote Finland. But Pam insists on including the tiny country in their Scandinavian tour. “What could go wrong,” she says. Well. Plenty, when one is cursed, sent off on a quest, and especially when one’s mum turns up and starts flirting with the tour manager. Can Martin fulfil … Continue reading Available Now!
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Blog postIn P.N. Shafa’s near future dystopia Descendants of Power, the 1% flee to Mars, leaving behind a ravaged climate and starving post-apocalyptic survivors. But on Mars, the colonists continue with business as usual, i.e. predatory capitalism, the usual “how much can I get for myself” mentality. And turns out, that ethos doesn’t work well in … Continue reading Descendants of Power, The One Percent on Mars
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Blog postPros: Fantastic world building. Interesting Dominican Republican setting complete with sea anemones and pirates. Rich prose. Excellent portrayals of unpleasant people in desperate circumstances. Cons: Interesting and well-crafted but unlikeable characters who don’t grow. Disappointing ending. Time travel by sea anemone powered by Olokun, the great spirit who knows what lies on … Continue reading Time Travel Via Sea Anemone! Tentacle by Rita Indiana, A Review.
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Blog postBottom line: Wake Up And Dream is a terrific alternate history read. Fascinating, haunting, and beautifully written. Highly recommended. The career of has-been actor, Clark Gable, didn’t make the jump from the talkies to the “feelies.” Now he’s a two bit private eye specializing in matrimonial cases, sniffing pillow cases and peering under beds. … Continue reading Wake Up And Dream by Ian R. MacLeod, a Review
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Blog post1968 London: the careers of four talented, young musicians are floundering on the rocks. Recognizing their promise, a visionary manager assembles them into a dream band, Utopia Avenue. Will they make it to the top? Or will the fates intervene? Pros: Crossover from the author’s other novels. Vivid portrayal of the era. Possible Cons: Mostly … Continue reading Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, A Review
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Blog postExperts claim that time travel into the past defies the universal laws of physics. But there’s no reason to allow pesky reality to interfere with good fiction. So fictional travel back in time occurs rather frequently. And whether transported by a machine, magic objects, reincarnation or dream, characters find themselves back in time. Some times, … Continue reading Replay by Ken Grimwood, a Review.
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Blog postThe Example of Hyperion, Blackfish City and Children of Time In science fiction, the author must describe the special features of the story’s world to the reader. At worst, the information is laid out in a long didactic paragraph, the dreaded “info dump.” And sometimes, an info dump includes details not relevant to the story: … Continue reading The Creative Info Dump
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Blog postHumorous and philosophical species-jumping time-travel. Cubical dwelling everyman, Tom Robinson, has a problem. He’s been hit by a bus, but fortunately a crystal shop purveyor has just provided him with the secret to remembering past lives. Now Tom will wake into a new life with the memory of his old life intact. Sounds great! Doesn’t … Continue reading The Reincarnation of Tom by Aden Simpson, a Review.
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Blog postBayou time travel adventure. Time travel fiction encompasses many subcategories, and Them Bones by Howard Waldrop fits into a couple. The novel has an anthropological survival angle and an archaeological subplot, but also falls into the hail-Mary-backward-pass-last-ditch attempt to fix an untenable present. The author presents three story threads; the most fleshed out relays the … Continue reading Them Bones by Howard Waldrop, a Review
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Blog postGreek Glass Makers Navigate Fascist Dystopia Pros: Lyrical prose. Poetic and allegorical. Cast features much cultural diversity. Possible cons: Unusual structure including set up and unlikely wrap up. More character and theme driven than plot driven. Plot requires substantial suspension of disbelief. In the paranoid dystopia of Angela Panayotopulos’s paranormal novel, The Wake Up, a … Continue reading The Wake Up, Paranormal Dystopia by Angela Panayotopulos
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