by NRB | 12 Jun 2018 | SFF |
Revenant Gun delivers a deeply humanistic tale that furthers the concerns of the previous two volumes without being repetitive. Yoon Ha Lee wraps up his stunning Machineries of Empire trilogy with all of the style of the first two volumes. Both the...
by NRB | 27 Nov 2014 | SFF |
A mission to discover a new planet is sabotaged in this debut SF full of plot twists and wonder. There are two main schools of space opera today: military SF, where some version of the US marines arrives on the scene, kills everybody, and lets God sort out the good...
by NRB | 13 Feb 2014 | SFF |
Immersive, layered and compelling: this standout science fiction debut rewards persistence. Ancillary Justice, the debut novel from American author Ann Leckie, has been garnering a fair bit of buzz around the speculative fiction community over the past few months and...
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