I urge you to write to your MP and to the leader of any political party you may be a member of. The goal is to make this process simpler for Ukrainians and to expose all parties to less unnecessary risk. Writing to your MP is easy. Find out who they are and how to get …
CW: Choking I’ll get back to your regularly scheduled snarktasm next time, I promise. And besides, there are dog pics. That’s what you really signed up for, right? If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll probably know I’ve been talking a lot lately about content warnings in books. It’s a topic that comes up a …
Can I be honest with you? Like, really, actually, personally honest? If the answer to that is ‘no’, just go ahead and skip down to the dog pics. You know that’s what you came here for. I’m in creative burnout. The third book in the Starship Teapot series is sitting there, all plotted out. Only I can’t write it. …
An immersive dystopian road-trip through a future America by: RWW Greene In late twenty-first century America, under 25s have lost virtually all rights. They are bound to their parents with no agency in their own lives. Two years before her 25th birthday, Julie runs away and seeks a new life on the open road. I wasn’t …
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The Circus Infinite A circus takes on a crime-boss on an infamous pleasure moon by: Khan Wong This came up in my ARC list recently. First off, it’s published by Angry Robot. If you don’t know Angry Robot, they describe themselves as seeking to ‘find and give a platform to new voices and new stories that push …
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Galactic Junk Drawer: Space Janitor Shorts Space Janitor by Julia Huni It’s Christmas in space! Well, not so much in space as on a planet far, far away. En route to her roommate’s family home, Triana gets a visit from the three wise people. Excellent fun!
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Hossain The intense mythology of P Djèlí Clark meets the cutting wit of Christopher Moore in this biting satire set against a richly imagined, jewel-encrusted world. Melek Ahmar, the Lord of Mars, the Red King, the Lord of Tuesday, Most August Rajah of Djinn wakes after …
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The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell Newsflesh #3.2 by Mira Grant Grabs you by the throat and won’t let go. Elaine – Miss Oldenburg to her 6yo students – takes her job seriously. Very seriously. As a grade one teacher in the post-pandemic Newsflesh world, that job is quite different to what …
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The Stark Divide (Liminal Sky: The Ariadne Cycle #1) by J. Scott Coatsworth This is classic science fiction in the vein of Heinlein and Asimov – minus the misogyny, homophobia, racism, transphobia, etc. It also reminded me of Greg Bear’s Eon. Coatsworth paints us a world not unlike our own, but one where hope, ultimately, …
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Dames for Hire HoloCity Case Files #1 by: SC Jensen Bubbles was a detective in the police force — until she exposed corruption at the very top. One ‘accident’ later and she’s unemployed, newly sober, and down an arm. Light, easy-reading fun with great characters. Can’t wait to see what comes next for Bubbles and co.
