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new review: fantasyliterature.com/reviews/when... "Like its predecessor, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, it’s an impressive work of popular science marked by wonderful prose and an engaging voice." @restingdinoface.bsky.social #bookreviews #booksky

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Not top-shelf Murakami but worth a read! (unless you want clear-cut answers, but then, that wouldn't be any sort of Murakami at all, would it?)

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thanks to @strangehorizons.bsky.social for giving a home to my newest review: "If you’ve read Hard-Boiled Wonderland, you’ll recognize its bones here, but ...not having read the prior novel won’t have any impact ... you’ll be equally befuddled either way." strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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review of The Gorge fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... The good news is it’s a perfectly serviceable streaming movie, actors do an excellent job, visuals are fantastic, and you get 2 movies for the price of 1. The bad news is one of those is vastly more original and engaging than the other

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new review: "absolutely loved this book ... what really drives Orbital is wonder: at the beauty of the Earth, at how it brought us forth, at what we have done (dismay as well), wonder at the “trance of wild and lilting world.” fantasyliterature.com/reviews/orbi... #bookreviews #booksky

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My review of FIFTY BEASTS TO BREAK YOUR HEART AND OTHER STORIES by GennaRose Nethercott, is up. fantasyliterature.com/reviews/fift...

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It's here! The @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special: one editorial, five critical essays, three poems, one podcast, three special reviews. We'll be publishing one essay per day all week, and the reviews will appear on the usual Monday-Wednesday-Friday cycle. Shall we go on a tour? Let's.

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Just took part-time refuge in these two wildly different but equally wonderful books this week and highly recommend both #booksky

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The Criticism Special is live! This week, essays will drop once a day Monday-Friday as we highlight the incredible criticism we are lucky enough to receive and publish. First up is Who Is In Danger? by Paul Kincaid. Read the full essay at the link in our bio!

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🚨 Next week is the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special. ✍️ We’ll have @hararereview.bsky.social, @whiterxbbit.bsky.social, @coimeas.bsky.social, @tansyg.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social and more. There will be SF history, film criticism, postcolonialism and more. It’s SH Reviews but …

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new review, when spreading news about good art feels even more necessary "gives moving, passionate voice to the all-too often voiceless ... masterfully tense in its small moments...stands out amidst the retellings" fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... @doubledayuk.bsky.social ky.social #Booksky

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new review up fantasyliterature.com/reviews/moth... #booksky #fantasybooks #bookreviews

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My review of Johnny Compton's SPITE HOUSE is up. The review ends abruptly (like I got interrupted? but I was sure I proofed it...), but basically, great, creepy cursed-house book. fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-...

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New review: “The main character remains likably engaging, the magic intriguing, the family history labyrinthine, and if the story doesn’t perhaps progress quite as much as one would prefer, it all results in a smoothly enjoyable read.” fantasyliterature.com/reviews/an-i...

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huh, once again I am surprised I do not have all the books I need . . . I shall rectify that

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Excited to be part of Cutleaf Journal’s most recent crop of publications this month! cutleafjournal.com/content/plea...

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Thrilled to be part of Strange Horizons’ reviewers’ wrap, where I write about Treacle Walker, Butcher of the Forest, & push Flow as a “small film” before the Globes pegged it as Best Animated @premeemohamed.com @abraham.bsky.social @georgeoconnor.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...

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Favorite Reads 2 (non-fiction) 2024 Becoming Earth The Horse Every Living Thing Our Moon Scattered Snows to the North

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Favorite Reads ‘24 Blade of Dream One Hundred Shadows The Mercy of Gods Dead Cat Tail Assassins The Bright Sword The Last Song of Penelope Wicked Problems Play of Shadows ASGARDIANS 1-2 Treacle Walker Absolution The Truth of the Aleke Book of Love System Collapse Wind That Sweeps the Stars

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Post 46 Book Year in Review Lazarus Man: Richard Price www.goodreads.com/user/show/18... I felt utterly immersed in its speech & setting, its warmly human characters just trying to get by day to day. It’s nearly impossible not to empathize with & root for these characters. #bookreview

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Post 45 Book Year Review Absolution: Jeff VanderMeer fantasyliterature.com/reviews/abso... what the f—- did you expect? Goodnight f—-ing Moon? The Very F—-ing Hungry Caterpillar? If you’re gonna buy a Vanderf—-ingMeer book, then you better expect a f—-ing Vanderf—ker. @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

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Post 44 Book Year in Review It’s a Gas by Mark Miodownik www.goodreads.com/book/show/60... follows up his earlier two books on solids and liquids and falls somewhere in between (solids being the best of the three), being often fun, always fascinating, and just a tad frustrating. #bookreviews

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Post 43 Book Year in Review Scattered Snows, to the North: Carl Phillips www.goodreads.com/book/show/19... these are the moments, startled by language or juxtaposition or metaphor or where lines bounce off but then land again & linger, that I come to poetry for #bookreviews #booksky

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Post 42 Book Year in Review Thor: George O’Connor fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... What I’ve been saying since the beginning: story is great, artwork is great, everyone should buy, every public/school library should own ... @georgeoconnor.bsky.social @fanlit.bsky.social #bookreviews #booksky

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Post 41 Book Year Review The Bright Sword: Lev Grossman strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/... Collum’s awakening to Arthur's mythos being more complicated than he’d originally believed is an interior journey to match the exterior ones he takes @levgrossman.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social

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Post 40 Book Year Review The Wind That Sweeps the Stars: Greg Keyes fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... taut, thoughtful, moving at times, exciting & wryly funny at other times -- I would happily have spent more time with the two main characters #bookreviews #bookssky @fanlit.bsky.social

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Post 39 Book Year in Review The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... an ambitious work with a thoughtful and thought-provoking premise #bookreviews #booksky

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Post 38 Book Year Review Play of Shadows: Sebastien de Castell fantasyliterature.com/reviews/play... the relative uniqueness of the theater background freshens up more familiar elements, & never hurts to have strong characters and good banter @decastell.bsky.social @fanlit.bsky.social #bookreviews

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Post 37 Book Year Review Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: Edward Dolnick fantasyliterature.com/reviews/dino... enjoyable, informative, & engaging exploration of early dinosaur discoveries w/ a fascinating slant by focusing on their socio-psychological impact #bookreviews @fanlit.bsky.social

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Finally watched Alien Romulus, and, why? Would much rather have watched that movie about teens trying to escape an exploitive company by hijacking a space vehicle amidst internal tension they teased us with in the first 15 minutes instead of a tired retread rife with “remember this?” moments sigh

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Post 36 Book Year Review One Hundred Shadows by Hwang Jungeun (translated by Jung Yewon) fantasyliterature.com/reviews/one-... haunting novella told in simple, spare prose… the kind of book that passes quickly reading but lingers for some time after you’ve turned the last page #bookreview #booksky

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Post 35 Book Year Review Blade of Dream: Daniel Abraham fantasyliterature.com/reviews/blad... Richly complex plot & characterization atop a wonderfully evocative foundation. Loved its gradual immersion into place & people. Actually, there is little if anything I didn’t love @abraham.bsky.social

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Post 34 Book Year Review A Place Called Yellowstone: Randall K. Wilson www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... concise, informative, often vivid history that doesn’t shy away from uglier elements: expulsion of native people, rapacity of profiteer ... wonderful new context for a favorite place #booksky

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Post 33 Book Year Review The Mercy of Gods: James S. Corey fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... takes time to allow characters to fully form. to grow, to deal in various individual ways with trauma …. Worldbuilding is another strength while the plot is tautly compelling #bookreviews #booksy

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A great list and I'll happily second: Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Becoming Earth, Alien Earths, and Our Moon. And add The Clock in the Sun: How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star by Pierre Sokolsky & Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian

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Post 32 Book Year Review Within My Branches: Nicholas Michel www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Drawings are absolutely beautiful: sharp, expressive, detailed, gorgeous to look at … Text is a soft, often poetic style with a nice cadence … Moments of beauty & joy & wry humor #booksky #bookreviews

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Post 31 Book Year Review The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... Clark is a master of the short novel form … a fast-paced mystery romp full of dark humor set amidst a twisting turning tale. I had a blast. @pdjeliclark.bsky.social #bookreviews #booksky

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Post 30 Book Year Review Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing: Lev Parikian www.goodreads.com/book/show/62... highly accessible, enjoyable, and fun popular science, as Parikian explains how the ability to fly evolved four separate times across a range of creatures

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Post 29 Book Year Review The Last Song of Penelope: Claire North fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-... Athena’s narrative voice is sharp in its social critiques of patriarchy, slavery, class; fierce in its feminist stance ... can’t recommend it enough #bookreviews #booksky @fanlit.bsky.social

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Post 28: Book Year in Review A Year of last Things by Michael Ondaajte www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... the cumulative bittersweet sense of times’ passage lends the book a power and allows it to linger for some time in the reader’s mind.

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post 27: Book Year in Review Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life: Ferris Jabr fantasyliterature.com/reviews/beco... Informative, a fresh angle, deeply personal and expansive, always clear & sometimes poetic … an excellent bit of popular science @ferrisjabr.bsky.social #bookreviews #booksky

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Post 26: Book Year in Review Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic: Tabitah Stanmore fantasyliterature.com/reviews/cunn... avoids abstract academic discussion & humanizes those involved ... informative read bolstered by a plethora of examples dug up by meticulous research #booksky

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