Monthly Archives: June 2024

The Saint of Bright Doors (2023) by Vajra Chandrasekera

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 The Saint of Bright Doors is a wildly inventive fantasy story that won the 2024 Nebula Award for best novel. Written by Sri Lankan author Vajra Chandrasekera, the novel is set in a vaguely South Asian setting with a … Continue reading →

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Stephen Markley – The Deluge (2023) Review

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

9.5/10 In Stephen Markley’s immense, epic climate change novel, we are treated to a host of characters who all try to fight the system to do something about climate change, but in different ways. There’s the environmental scientist, Tony Pietrus, … Continue reading →

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Fritz Leiber – Swords Against Death (1970) Review

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

The second collection of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories and this time we finally get to read some proper sword and sorcery adventure stories that are not prequels or otherwise introductory works. The first collection, Swords and Deviltry, was … Continue reading →

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Ottessa Moshfegh – Lapvona (2022) Review

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 A long time ago in a land far, far away…. there was a country named Lapvona in which everything was awful. The Lapvonians were filled to the brim with violence, guilt, hatred, greed and self-loathing. Moshfegh’s anti-fairy tale is … Continue reading →

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Junji Ito – Gyo (2002) Manga Review

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Jeroen Admiraal

Gyo is a horror tale based around the idea: wouldn’t it suck if sharks suddenly got legs? That’s basically it, or, at least, how it starts. The story starts on the tropical island Okinawa where a young couple gets terrorised … Continue reading →

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