Helpmeet Review: Tenderness as Terror
Good horror is scary, but great horror is tender. It does not always speak at a scream, but tells you, very softly but very firmly, what is about to happen. It does not gloat,…
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The City Inside Review: Very Close to Home
Samit Basu’s latest novel The City Inside is a bleak near-future dystopian exploration of Indian culture, social media, capitalism and all those other fun bits of facism that have been building in our world.…
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Rosebud Review: Particle and Wave, Bang and Whimper
“The crew of the Rosebud are, currently, and by force of law, a balloon, a goth with a swagger stick, some sort of science aristocrat possibly, a ball of hands, and a swarm of…
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You’ve Lost a Lot of Blood Review: Do You See the Monster?
Horror is a fairly broad genre. Suspense and gore fall under its umbrella, the subtle and the explicit. Monsters both human and non-human, with and without motive, inhabit its works, and the architects of…
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built Review: Find the Strength to Do Both
A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the new novella from Becky Chambers, though obviously brief, is a complete meal: it has the rich depth of philosophical reflection, the acid brightness of humor, and the unfamiliar…
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A Certain Hunger Review: Epicurean Extremes
Sometimes a book is so good that you go look up whatever else the author has written and devour that, too. And then sometimes a book is so very, very good that when you…
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Eartheater Review: Deep as Graves, Strong as Foundations
American stories about people with powers often involve organizations and the general public getting swept up in their struggles. The government wants to use them! Scientists want to study them! The media will hound…
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Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower Review: Upstairs Girl, Downstairs Girl
It’s no secret that we here at Geekly love Tamsyn Muir and her gothic sensibilities. But does her necromantic space opera mean that she can write a fantasy-based fairy tale as well? Of course…
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When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain Review: A Story to Keep You Alive
Self-defense storytelling is only a little younger than storytelling itself. Shahrazad is the most famous victor of such a contest, but Egil Skallagrimsson did it in Iceland’s famous Egil’s Saga, and there are fairy…
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The Rhythm of War Review: Always the Next Step
It has been a long three years, but the next installment of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives is finally here with Rhythm of War. One year has passed on Roshar since the end of Oathbringer, and…
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