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Review of your favorite books. From bestsellers to the next hidden gem, from novels to short stories we review it all here. For more books reviews check out Nekoplz.

Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Eddard Stark Chapter 33

On November 30, 2018 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 33: Stupid Ned …

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The Love (stories) of our Lives?

On November 28, 2018 By Jay In Book Reviews

Synergy is back! This is the second installment of the monthly feature. The basic gist is that one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to  mixed in with …

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Blindsight by Peter Watts Review

On July 24, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

One of the things I find interesting about “hard” science fiction — by way of introducing Peter Watts’s Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight, the best example of the type that I have read in years — is …

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Zoran Živković Interview + Seven Touches of Music + Steps Through the Mist Review

On July 22, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews, Interviews

This week our guest is World Fantasy Award winning author Dr. Zoran Živković. Publishers in the UK and USA have snapped up Živković’s stories, written in his native Serbian, in English translation at an ever-increasing …

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Review – The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak

On July 18, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

“Are you okay?” That is the question asked, in one form or another, in nearly all of the stories that comprise Christopher Barzak’s new mosaic novel The Love We Share Without Knowing. It is a …

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Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link Review

On July 14, 2018 By Victoria Hoyle In Book Reviews

I can safely say that I’ve never met a Kelly Link story that I didn’t like, and, after re-reading her alchemical debut collection “Stranger Things Happen”, I’m just about ready to tell you why. First, …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Jon Snow Chapter 19

On July 13, 2018 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s  g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 19, a …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Catelyn Stark Chapter 18

On July 13, 2018 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

She’s new, I’m the re-reader. She’s the  newbie, I’m the spoilery vet. Together She’s  g-mashin’ George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting here POV on. Today she moves on to Chapter 18, a …

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In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss Review

On July 13, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

“The Rose in Twelve Petals” begins Theodora Goss’s newly-in-paperback collection In the Forest of Forgetting, and the story makes an ideal introduction to the the author’s work. A retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty story, …

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Getting to Know You by David Marusek Review

On July 10, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

Getting to Know You is only David Marusek’s second book, but he is already a veteran of the science fiction wars. Marusek’s 2005 novel Counting Heads was the subject of the debut speculative fiction column …

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Sailing to Sarantium + Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay Review

On July 2, 2018 By Victoria Hoyle In Book Reviews

I have a set of bright memories associated with various of Guy Gavriel Kay’s novels: Sitting, aged 13, grief-stricken and sobbing in a cold bath having finished “The Darkest Road”, the final weft in his …

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The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories by Theodora Goss Review

On June 29, 2018 By Victoria Hoyle In Book Reviews

Theodora Goss only began publishing her short fiction and poetry in 2002 but already her work has appeared in some of the genre’s most respected publications (including “Realms of Fantasy”, “Strange Horizons”, “Polyphony” and “Lady …

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MultiReal by David Louis Edelman Review

On June 24, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

The labels “science fiction” and “speculative fiction” have long been entwined, with speculative fiction variously considered synonymous with science fiction or an umbrella that contains science fiction. And indeed most science fiction is speculative, either …

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From Russia With Love and Dr. No – The James Bond Zapiska

On June 19, 2018 By Eric Schlelein In Book Reviews

Ah, the Cold War.  Growing up as I did in the Eighties, there was no greater Bad Guy in film or print as evil or subversive or insidious as the Russians.  They were the eternal enemy, lurking …

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Adventures in Unhistory by Avram Davidson Review

On June 11, 2018 By Matt Denault In Book Reviews

Imagine if you will that, when you were younger, you had an older relative — a grandfather or great-aunt — who was something of an armchair historian regarding mythology. Every now and then, when you …

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Three Days to Never by Tim Powers Review

On June 6, 2018 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

Tim Powers’s novels are so unlike anything else that I think John Shirley said it best over at Emerald City “Tim Powers is his own genre”. Or maybe he is the most unpredictable predictable writer …

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The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip Review

On June 1, 2018 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

The award winning Patricia A. McKillip is one of the prominent authors within fantasy fiction, but whereas notable masters of the genre like J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin work on an epic scale, McKillip’s …

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Escapement by Jay Lake Review

On May 31, 2018 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Escapement is the sequel to Jay Lake’s critically acclaimed novel Mainspring, wherein he maps out an alternate Earth anno 1900. Lake has quite cleverly constructed a world that for the most part resembles ours yet …

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Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey Review

On May 24, 2018 By Trine Paulsen In Book Reviews

Kushiel’s Dart is Jacqueline Carey’s highly successful debut and the first instalment of a trilogy that chronicles the exploits of Phèdre nó Delaunay – exquisite courtesan, talented spy and god-touched masochist. The book received the …

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The Ant King and Other Stories by Benjamin Rosenbaum Review

On April 21, 2013 By Craig_Gidney In Book Reviews

Imagine Borges and Dali hanging out at Pee Wee Herman’s playhouse, and you have a brief inkling of what Rosenbaum’s fiction is like. The Ant King and Other Stories is Rosenbaum’s debut collection of short fiction, which …

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