by NRB | 13 Oct 2022 | Fiction |
The author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel travels through time in her new novel. If there’s pleasure in action, there’s peace in stillness. Emily St John Mandel takes us on a delightfully strange journey through time in her latest novel. In the distant future,...
by NRB | 22 Aug 2019 | Fiction, SFF |
In this debut novel Kate Mascarenhas creates a world where time travel is not only possible, it could be linked to a murder … In 1967, four female scientists invent time travel, but only three of them become household names for the right reason. The fourth,...
by NRB | 17 Jul 2014 | SFF |
The pseudonymous Claire North poses an esoteric and intellectual challenge in this historically based and convoluted time-travel story. Born as a kalachakra, or ouroboran, Harry August belongs to a unique group of individuals to whom the usual laws of birth, life...
by NRB | 21 May 2013 | Crime Scene, Fiction, SFF |
This intriguing and original time-travelling thriller is not for the faint-hearted. Lauren Beukes is known for her genre-bending. Her first novel, Moxyland (2008), was a futuristic cyber-punk story combined with social realism and her second, Zoo City (2010), posited...
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