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speculative fiction

  • 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 Midsummer! Older Novels of Fairy Abduction

    In this series of blog posts, I celebrate Midsummer fairy madness by reviewing tales and novels of fairy abduction. Those fairies aren’t the cute little Disney-fied winged things we think they are. Fairies are dangerous. Fairies are curious. They love… Continue reading