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Meat is murder This is a book about murder and forced labour as well as the cost of beef. And the last is quite probably the most important....

  A solid piece of D&D tie-in fiction; a missed chance for more After the heights of 2nd- through 4th-edition Forgotten Realms tie-in f...

A contemporary horror/dark fantasy novella with a strong grounding in its setting Riley is a Jersey Girl. She lives near the Shore, and has ...

The latest novel by K.J. Parker set in his Parkerland ‘verse K.J. Parker has settled into doing novels set in his Parkerland ‘verse. For l...

A multi-headed allegory that rewards multiple readings It’s tricky to attempt to pin down in a few paragraphs all the things that The Dragon...

A journey across the dividing lines of American society In the antebellum Wild West, two teenagers eager for an excuse to run away take a jo...

On making Mount Olympus' foundations shake I first discovered the work of Caro de Robertis (they/them) with their novel The Gods of Tang...

A potent anti-colonialist novel that sets its stakes on not just the fate of a planet and a species, but more importantly, the heart and so...

  Ctrl C, Ctrl V: The novella And Side by Side They Wander is a novella absolutely brimming with interesting ideas delivered in accomplishe...

Johansen’s penchant for epic fantasy distilled instead into a twisty sword and sorcery tale Cover art by Laura Galli It starts off simply, ...

The concept is fantastical, but the execution does not compute In Open Sorcery we’re introduced to a world where history proceeded exactly ...

On freeing the human spirit from a late-stage-capitalist cell My first experience with the work of Sim Kern (they/them) was with their non...