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Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion

“When a thing such as wax, or gold, or silver, turns liquid from heat, we say that it has fused,” Eliza said to her son, “and when such liquids run together and mix, we say they are con-fused.” “Papa says … Continue reading

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David Stahler Jr.’s Truesight

In one of my favourite books as a youth (well, as a pre-teen, really), Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time, Meg, the main character, attempts to describe the sense of sight to Aunt Beast, an alien creature born without it. … Continue reading

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Richard Bowes’s From The Files of The Time Rangers

I really like a well-written time travel adventure. Unfortunately, they are, in my opinion, quite rare. Exemplars of this genre include Kage Baker’s sprawling The Company series and Fritz Leiber’s Change Wars series, which, alas, consists only of a short … Continue reading

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312

Kim Stanley Robinson fooled me again. The main body of his prose in 2312 is so calm and measured, coolly analytical and matter of fact, that I must have been expecting the Solar System-wide conflict that it portrays to be … Continue reading

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Janet Kagan’s Uhura’s Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

I’ll admit upfront this is a nostalgic favorite. I think it’s also very good. Early in her career, Lt. Uhura met a young diplomat from the world of Eeiauo. The two women bonded over music, singing, and the songs of … Continue reading

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Alastair Reynolds’ Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency #2) (John Lee, narrator)

The Glitter Band is a collection of 10,000 city-state habitats orbiting the planet of Yellowstone, existing in near-perfect democracy, with that democracy guarded by Panoply and its prefects. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has faced crises before, and overcome them. There’s a … Continue reading

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Annalee Newitz’s Autonomous

With Autonomous, Annalee Newitz has written the most subversive SF novel I’ve ever read. I’ve followed Newitz on Twitter for a couple of years but this is the first book of theirs I’ve read, so maybe all of them are … Continue reading

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An interview with Michael William Kaluta

Ian Nicholas Mackenzie here. I took a break from working on our upcoming Brian and Wendy Froud edition to talk in the Pub over a few pints of Guinness with another master artist, Michael William Kaluta. Green Man Review: Why … Continue reading

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John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society

John Scalzi writes some of the most purely entertaining science fiction being published these days, and The Kaiju Preservation Society is Exhibit No. 1. If you’re looking for a quick, light read with a certain amount of action, angst-free characters, … Continue reading

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Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish; Mostly Harmless; Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; and The Salmon of Doubt

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green … Continue reading

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