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  • The Arthur C. Clarke Awards short list, continued

    The novels short-listed for this major speculative fiction award include: In my last post, I reviewed the novels by Armfield and Bradley. This post reviews the novels by Green and Woolf. Extremophile, Ian Green (2024, Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury) What an… Continue reading

  • The Arthur C. Clarke Awards: Belated Post

    And don’t I feel silly! I know I said I’d turn to the Hugo Awards short-listed novels next. Meanwhile–how, I’m not sure–I completely misunderstood the Clarke Awards timeline. The decision has already been made and the winner is: Annie Bot,… Continue reading

  • It’s A Midsummer Night’s Eve: Fairy Abduction, Anyone?

    I write this blog post on the evening of June 24th, which is the traditional date of midsummer celebrations all across Europe, even if it’s not the date of the actual summer solstice (and misleading as well, since that moment… Continue reading