Tag Archives: Novel

M. John Harrison – You Should Come With Me Now (2017) Review

Posted on November 14, 2020 by Jeroen Admiraal

Stories of Ghosts This new collection features some two dozen short stories and an equal amount of one-page flash-fiction, which could also be called prose poetry. Many of these appeared on Harrison’s blog over the past decade, but he arranged … Continue reading →

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Isaac Asimov – Foundation’s Edge (1982) Review

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 In the 1940s, Isaac Asimov wrote his famous Foundation trilogy and promptly forgot all about it. In the next few decades while he was writing non-fiction, fans pestered him endlessly to write a sequel, but uncle Isaac never listened. … Continue reading →

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Ted Chiang – Exhalation (2019) Review

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 I started this collection with very high expectations. Years ago, when Ted Chiang’s first collection came out, Stories of Your Life and Others (2002), I was greatly impressed. I still consider it one of the best SF short story … Continue reading →

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David Mitchell – The Bone Clocks (2014) Review

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Jeroen Admiraal

My rating: 8.5/10 Holly Sykes is an angry teenager, hormones raging and very stubborn, and runs away from home in heartache. There’s weird stuff going on in her life: she hears voices, strangers know her name. Before she realizes it, … Continue reading →

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Alastair Reynolds – Galactic North (2006) Review

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 After reading Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space series – four fat novels full of far-future coolness and bleakness – you might find yourself wondering: “was, was that the whole story? I mean, well, in Redemption Ark we meet Clavain and … Continue reading →

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B. Catling – The Cloven (2018) Review

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Jeroen Admiraal

Also in this series: The Vorrh (2012) The Erstwhile (2017) “If the Tree of Knowledge was not meant for angels, nor for humans, then who was it meant for?” Brian Catling burst onto the scene of fantasy and new weird … Continue reading →

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