If nobody who has influence thinks it’s worth using it for you, what’s to stop them using you? The answer, it appears when the New Delhi police find the body of a raped and mutilated woman, is nothing at all.…
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Fiction Review: You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas
Tagged with: Book review, crime fiction, Damyanti Biswas, Thriller, You Beneath Your Skin
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Fiction Review: The Suicide Club by Rachel Heng
The two people ahead of me in the queue agreed they wouldn’t want to live forever. “What if your choice was to live forever or die tomorrow?” I asked. Neither of them had an answer for that. Neither did I,…
Tagged with: Dystopia, Literary fiction, Rachel Heng, science fiction, The Suicide Club
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Fiction Review: The Reopened Cask by Richard Zwicker
My quest to read more of the type of short stories I write continues with Rich Zwicker’s latest collection, The Reopened Cask. The cask in question is the cask that was, at least at the beginning of Edgar Allen Poe’s…
Tagged with: Collection, Fiction, Humour, Richard Zwicker, science fiction, short story, The Reopened Cask
Posted in Book review: fiction
Posted in Book review: fiction
Fiction Review: Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against – there’s enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle. No, that’s not a Brexit…
Tagged with: Book review, Dorset, Geoffrey Household, Novel, Rogue Male, Thriller
Posted in Book review: fiction
Posted in Book review: fiction
Fiction Review: A Dream of Wessex by Christopher Priest
If Christopher Priest has a formula, it can be summed up as two worlds = one character. In A Dream of Wessex, one of Julia Stretton’s worlds is an experiment conducted by the other: a utopian future based around the…
Fiction Review: Blindsight by Peter Watts
A laser is asked to find darkness in a dark room. This will be easy, thinks the laser, how hard can it be to find what I’m surrounded by? Yet wherever the laser looks, all it sees is light. The…
Tagged with: Blindsight, Firefall, Peter Watts, science fiction
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Fiction Review: Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
When Elmore Leonard wrote his ten rules of writing, he opened with: Never open a book with weather. Yet eleven years earlier, he had opened one of his better-known novels with: When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years…
Tagged with: crime fiction, Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty, Humour, Satire
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Fiction Review: Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds
It starts when the death of Eunice Akinya, matriarch of a powerful family. It takes us to the moon, to Mars and to the outer reaches of the solar system. At the same time, it tells the personal stories of…
Tagged with: Alastair Reynolds, Blue Remembered Earth, Poseidon's Children
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Fiction Review: Bosman at his Best by Herman Charles Bosman
My mission to become better read in short fiction continues with the recommendation of a friend: Bosman at his Best is a collection of the works of Herman Charles Bosman. I hadn’t heard of him until my friend mentioned him,…
Tagged with: anthology, Bosman at His Best, Collection, Herman Charles Bosman, short story
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Fiction Review: The Lilies of Dawn by Vanessa Fogg
I’ll start by saying that Vanessa Fogg and have been critique partners for a while now. I first met her through her story, The Wave, which impressed me deeply while leaving me with very little to critique. I’ve learned to…
Tagged with: fantasy, Novella, The Lilies of Dawn, Vanessa Fogg
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
Posted in Book review: fiction, Wednesday Pontification
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