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April 8, 2021

A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel

Reviewed by Max Dunbar The Age of Acceleration In 2019, the Unherd website carried an article by Gerard DeGroot, about the Chang’e 4 moon landing….

March 25, 2021

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

Reviewed by Annabel With The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers brings her Wayfarers series to a close. The quartet began in 2015…

October 22, 2020

One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis Reviewed by Karen Langley Science fiction writing often gets a bad press; dismissed as lightweight genre writing, mocked for…

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September 3, 2019

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Review by Annabel Those who’ve visited Shiny New Books before may know of my passion for the novels of Becky Chambers, one of the…

September 27, 2018

By the Pricking of Her Thumb by Adam Roberts

Reviewed by David Harris Roberts seems to have been very busy lately so I’m glad he managed to include a return to the world of The Real-Town…

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August 28, 2018

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Review by Annabel Becky Chambers’ third novel is set in the same galactic milieu as her first two. It can be read as a…

August 21, 2018

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

Reviewed by Annabel The first thing you need to do with this sparkling debut novel is to suspend your disbelief. Just accept that time…

Science Fiction: A Literary History edited by Roger Luckhurst
January 30, 2018

Science Fiction: A Literary History edited by Roger Luckhurst

Reviewed by Annabel Once upon a time SF was a subculture haunted by small populations of nerds and geeks. Star Wars (1977) changed that,…

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November 9, 2017

Artemis by Andy Weir

Reviewed by Annabel Those who read Weir’s debut novel, The Martian (which Dan reviewed for us here), tended to fall into two camps. As…

October 12, 2017

Pan Books at 70: The SF Edit

Reviewed by Annabel Pan, founded in 1944, published its first mass market paperback in 1947 – Ten Stories by Rudyard Kipling with the famous…

February 14, 2017

Mortal Engines by Stanislaw Lem

Edited and translated by Michael Kandel Review by Karen Langley Polish author Stanislaw Lem is probably best known for his novel “Solaris”, a book…

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December 1, 2016

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Reviewed by Annabel. Although this is the second book in a series, given that its two main characters were subsidiary supporting ones in its…

October 18, 2016

Revenger by Alastair Reynolds

Reviewed by David Harris Alastair Reynolds has a reputation as a prolific writer of SF and made waves a few years ago when he…

October 20, 2015

The Autobiography of James T. Kirk edited by David A. Goodman

Reviewed by Annabel I still have a huge affection for Star Trek in all its incarnations and, as time goes on, although Jean-Luc Picard is the…

July 15, 2015

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Reviewed by David Harris The first thing to say about this book – and it’s the first thing you will notice – is that…

January 18, 2015

Reading for Other Worlds

By Stefanie Hollmichel It has been a great year for space travel: the Philae Comet Lander, NASA’s test of its new Orion spacecraft, the…

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October 9, 2014

The Martian by Andy Weir

Paperback Review by Dan L. The Martian by Andy Weir took the Sci-Fi reading populace by storm with the release of the hardback. So much…

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