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 Grimy murder mystery in gaslamp Minas Tirith R J Barker has established a fine career writing consistently very good to excellent fantasy t...

 An impressive multiversal picaresque that has maybe a few too many meanders I’m not typically one to start a review with comps, but I think...

  A stone cold classic of future lives which holds up more than 30 years after it was written.   We are small, governments are large, we sur...

Second person present tense is the sexiest way to tell a story. If you've not come across it before, Bisclavret is a 12th century poem, ...

An unexpectedly enjoyable deep dive into the storytelling of Star Trek in the twenty-first century Adam Kotsko’s Late Star Trek is an une...

A  rich, wide-angle look at a multiversal society and those who would seek to support, change, and undermine it Multiverses. Multiverses are...

A novella that effortlessly slides from science fiction to elements of fantasy and mythology and allegory to tell a moderate near future sto...

Chain-Gang All-Stars drills into the social critique of the industrial prison system and crime in the U.S. through the battle royal genre i...

An attempt to top its ambitious predecessor Reset by not providing a sequel, but rather a prequel showing how the world of the four cities ...

Death by Silver  is a classic murder mystery that brings gay romance and a fascinating magic system to Edwardian England. Cover by Matthew B...