If you love Silksong, read these!
Now that the long, long-anticipated Silksong is finally here, I know that I and many others are torn between playing through the whole game in a rush and holding back in order to savor…
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Automatic Noodle Review – Robots, Rights, and Restaurants
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is about a group of robots in an unidentified dystopian future of California who discover not only that they have been offline for months, but also that the owners…
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Honeyeater Review: Something’s Rotten in Bellworth
There are certain settings that present a higher difficulty level for authors. Not that it’s easy to write a book even when the setting lends its heft to the narrative, but an old Victorian…
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Hemlock and Silver Review: The Dose Makes the Poison
At this point it’s hard to write a review of a T. Kingfisher novel—not because of the pace of publication, though that is breakneck (four books this year! Four!), and not because of the…
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Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock Review: Born Deadly Yesterday
Grappling with the philosophical reality of clones is a trope as old as sci-fi. Teaming up with them comes up a lot. Killing them, too. But outsourcing killing your clones to another clone is…
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The Devils Review – Monsters No Worse Than Men
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie feels fresh while still retaining the style of writing the author has become famous for. It’s set in a new world, our world in an alternate timeline Europe, where…
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Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame Review – True Choices
Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang is written like a folktale, not about slaying dragons but finding yourself again after you’ve lost who you were to protect yourself. It’s a tale…
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Anji Kills a King Review: The Fish Rots From Everywhere
Anji Kills a King wastes absolutely no time. With a title like that there’s no reason to beat around the bush, but Evan Leikam doesn’t even bother with setting the scene before we’re watching…
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The Fury of the Gods Review – Revenge and Resolutions
Journies are important in a tale; they must hook the reader in order to arrive at an ending, but an end that leaves one bitter at the time taken on the journey is to…
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Cold Eternity Review: Eat the Rich
If you’re reading this right now I’m guessing you could use a break from the horrors of our current reality, might I suggest the horrors of not-so-different one? Stay with me here, because Cold…
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