This year’s theme: fantasy novels and fantasy-related novels inspired by the folk ballads about Robin Hood. Every year, I pause any serious stuff for fairytale fluff. . although there have been times over the past years when the fairytale theme produces some deep and surprising recommendations for an excellent reading experience. Robin Hood coming soon, to your screens and inboxes!
Tag: science fiction
A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 24, 2025

Russell Hoban’s eccentric masterpiece, Riddley Walker, was published in 1980. Push past the weird spellings. Read it aloud to yourself if you have to. A must-read.

A speculative fiction advent calendar of quotes: Dec. 23, 2025

Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas, 1987–the first book in the magnificent Culture series. Banks is a superb writer, not only of SF but of conventionally realistic novels as well.


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