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July 19, 2015

Book Review: The Year's Best Science Fiction, 2015

July 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The latest monumental anthology from Gardner Dozois of the best the sci-fi genre has to offer

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July 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Our Year in Reading, Science Fiction
fiction, gardner dozois, July 2015, Our Year in Reading
July 14, 2015

Book Review: Dark Orbit

July 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A distant planet crackling with "dark energy" holds mind-boggling secrets for the crew of humans sent to explore it

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July 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, July 2015
July 10, 2015

Book Review: Time Salvager

July 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the future, a vast corporation sends operatives back in time to loot the past, and those operatives have one rule above all others: bring nobody back with you. When one of those operatives breaks that rule, Wesley Chu's novel takes off

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July 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, July 2015
July 10, 2015

Book Review: The Lagoon

July 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

When enigmatic aliens plunge down in the ocean off the coast of Nigeria, three very different humans encounter them - and watch as the world is changed forever

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July 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, July 2015
June 18, 2015

Book Review: The Change

June 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In a generous new anthology, a group of talented authors tells stories set in the "Emberverse" of S. M. Stirling - an Earth where all technology has abruptly stopped working

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June 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, June 2015, s- m- stirling
June 16, 2015

Book Review: Storm and Steel

June 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A former slave in a brutal empire is now wielding both political and magical power the second volume in Jon Sprunk's hugely enjoyable "Book of the Black Earth" series

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June 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, June 2015
May 14, 2015

Book Review: The Vorrh

May 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

At the heart of this astounding work of fantasy broods a jungle called the Vorrh, a forest so unending that it warps time and steals souls.

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May 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Science Fiction
fantasy, fiction, May 2015
May 10, 2015

Book Review: Corsair

May 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the new novel from James Cambias, a space pirate in the near future - and the enforcer hunting him - encounter something neither one expects

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May 10, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, May 2015
May 09, 2015

Book Review: When the Heavens Fall

May 09, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

When a renegade mage steals a powerful book of sorcery, the world of Marc Turner's fantasy debut is plunged into a disturbing new form of warfare

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May 09, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, May 2015
May 01, 2015

Book Review: Lords of the Sith

May 01, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the latest Star Wars novel, Darth Vader and his evil Emperor are trapped on a hostile world, being hunted by man and beast

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May 01, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, May 2015
April 25, 2015

Book Review: Of Noble Family

April 25, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Mary Robinette Kowal's sparkling "Glamourist" fantasy series comes to a complex and intriguing conclusion

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April 25, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Science Fiction
April 2015, fiction
March 23, 2015

Book Review: Duplicity

March 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In N. K. Traver's exciting debut, a young cyber-hacker finds his life steadily being commandeered - but his own reflection in the mirror.

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March 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Teen Fiction, Science Fiction
fiction, March 2015, YA fiction
March 15, 2015

Book Review: The Wide World's End

March 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In the concluding volume of James Enge's gripping fantasy trilogy, a band of unlikely heroes is caught between warring godlike beings in a world quickly tearing itself apart

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March 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fantasy, fiction, March 2015
March 13, 2015

Book Review: The Red Queen

March 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In a dystopian future, a plucky young woman from a poor village suddenly finds herself at the heart of the corrupt power system and the focal point of a rebellion in "The Hunger Ga-" um, in Victoria Aveyard's "The Red Queen."

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March 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Teen Fiction, Science Fiction
fiction, March 2015, teen fiction
March 07, 2015

Book Review: The Violent Century

March 07, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In a world very much like our own, super-powered clandestine operatives vie with each other on missions to save or destroy humanity

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March 07, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Arts & Life, Science Fiction
comics, fiction, March 2015, science fiction
February 18, 2015

Book Review: The Just City

February 18, 2015/ Robert Minto

In Jo Walton's latest novel, the "just city" of Plato's Republic is brought to life via Greek gods, robots, and a little discreet time travel

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February 18, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Fiction, Science Fiction
February 2015, fiction, jo walton, science fiction
February 16, 2015

Book Review: A Darker Shade of Magic

February 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In V. E. Schwab's new fantasy novel, a young man can travel between a string of alternate-reality Londons

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February 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction, Science Fiction
fantasy, February 2015, fiction
January 21, 2015

Book Review: Unbreakable

January 21, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

When young Promise's family is killed on their peaceful frontier planet, she signs up with the space-Marines - as one tends to do in such circumstances

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January 21, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, January 2015, science fiction
January 19, 2015

Book Review: The Whispering Swarm

January 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The legendary fantasy author Michael Moorcock returns after a long absence to the genre he helped to create

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January 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fantasy, fiction, January 2015, Michael Moorcock
November 30, 2014

Something Beyond the Chaos

November 30, 2014/ Robert Minto

The author made immortal by the novel Dune also wrote a career's worth of short stories. Robert Minto looks at the first-ever complete collection of those stories.

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November 30, 2014/ Robert Minto/
Fiction, Literary Criticism, Science Fiction
Book Review, December 2014, fiction, frank herbert, literary criticism, Robert Minto
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