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The Creator by Aliya Whiteley
The new novella by 2025 BSFA award-winner Aliya Whiteley is expertly written – it’s a pastiche of those mid-century country house novels married to a couple of pulpy genre plots, and it all fits together really well. There’s not a moment wasted here.
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A Tiding of Magpies / Pete W. Sutton.
One of the questions I ask when reviewing a single author anthology is ‘what’s special about it?’ There are plenty of story collections that are perfectly good but nonetheless fail to create that frisson of intrigue that makes them shine. In Pete W. Sutton’s A Tiding of Magpies, reissued last year with extra stories, I…
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Parsec #12
After the Christmas holidays and the new-year slump, Alan gets back in the saddle with a review of the most recent issue of Parsec.
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Mythaxis #39
Reading Mythaxis really brings home that there are some great unknown (or relatively unknown) writers out there.
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Interzone #300
Happy New Year from Supernova! The landmark 300th issue of Interzone has been out for a while, so as you can see I’m still playing catch-up with the reviews….
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Parsec #11
Self-imposed deadlines have no meaning, at least, not to me any more. I started Parsec issue 11 on the flight from Birmingham to Glasgow for Worldcon in August and was honestly blown away….
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BFS Horizons #17
BFS Horizons is a bit of a hidden gem.Sent out to members of the society but also available to purchase in the usual places, it often contains some truly wonderful stories, and this issue is a good example.
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Shoreline of Infinity #38 (Summer 2024)
A great crop this time round from Shoreline. Alan reviews Shoreline of Infinity #38
