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An impulsive word can start a war. A timely word can stop one. A simple …
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The best possible ending to this would have been for the emperor to get hit by a bus (or the in-universe equivalent) immediately upon walking out the door
Something strange is happening in sleepy subterranean Tombtown. Necromancers are disappearing. The crypt is changing. …
Hi lovely folk,
I am surprised and delighted to say that my novel The Beautiful Decay is up for various awards at the Queer Indie Awards!
If you enjoyed it, it would mean a lot if you'd vote for it. 💙
Discoverability is incredibly difficult as a self-published author and awards can be a big help.
Voting closes 26th Jan!
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
A series of bleak, gritty glimpses of what's in store for us over the next few decades.
The tone is lightened a bit here and there with injections of optimism, but I think it works against itself a little when the optimism feels unwarranted.
The way that the characters from the different stories are linked reminds me a bit of Cloud Atlas (although I only saw the movie (sorry)).
Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the …
I saw this series favorably compared to Dune, so
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
Wow, the second story is bleak. Do not recommend for people with children in their lives.
Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.
Wounded during …
I was pleasantly surprised.
My takeaway from Legends & Lattes was that it was a cozy fantasy adaptation of a modern concept àla Pratchett, but I didn't get a particular feeling of depth.
With Bookshops & Bonedust, it's the converse - I felt like it was mainly a story about Viv and her forced journey of self-discovery, while all the rest of it was just set dressing.
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work …
The #SFFBookClub January pick is How High We Go In The Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu. Thank you to all who voted and/or suggested books.
Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a tent …
I enjoyed the setting, and some of the substories were compelling, but as a whole it was too rambling and incohesive for me.
I feel like it would have worked better as a series of stories about different people from the same village or whatever instead of repeatedly being like "despite being in the middle of this incredibly urgent life crisis, the main character decides to spend six months teaching an older woman to fold laundry" or "despite having a very bad outcome two chapters ago, the main character decides to engage in exactly the same dangerous behavior with no additional precautions"
Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a tent …
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Ah, so it's a nested stories story
Award-winning historical fantasy and literary folktale. Winner of the presigious Etisalat award.
In a tent …
Let's see if I finish this one in time for #SFFBookClub
A mystery about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
She lived where the railway tracks met the saltpan, on the Ahri side of the shadowline. In the old days, …
Very much in the same vein as the first one, but it doesn't quite have the same punch now that the setting has already been introduced and explored
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches …
I didn't know what to expect from a novella about a convent of space nuns wandering the vacuum inside a gigantic sea slug, and that's what I got
The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. …
An adequate whodunit set in alternate contemporary Lisbon where a minority of people are gifted with telepathic or telekinetic powers.
There were some oddities - for example, the protagonist talks about the ambient temperature in every scene. I was expecting it to become a plot point, but apparently it's just there. The story revolves around two investigators doing their thing, but they're oddly timid - they're perfectly content with people just refusing to talk to them about the investigation, and they act like getting a warrant for some piece of evidence that all their other evidence points at is an impossible obstacle.
It was enjoyable despite these details, and I'll probably read the subsequent entries eventually.