Category: Issue Eight Reviews
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Book Review: Clare Rhoden’s The Ruined Land
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “[…] Hector had no idea what Jarli’s business was with the ravine canini, but he had detected a bio-echo that troubled him. Jarli’s life-force, Hector’s sensors told him, read very like that of the human twins the canini had saved from the Pale. Jarli must be, the twins must be, thought…
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Parallax by Robin Morgan
Reviewed by Frances Bigger. I do love a story within a story, and Robin Morgan’s Parallax is just that, a group of stories within a story in a world where stories are relics no one is looking for. The Yarner tells The Stranger story after story, tales from a world that is both nothing like…
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Book Review: Angela Savage’s Mother of Pearl.
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “Meg blinked back tears of frustration. This was not a conversation she wanted to have. She grasped her skirt in tight fists and took a deep breath. […] Meg’s lower lip quivered with suppressed anger. ‘I’ve never given up, Anna. All I’ve done is tame the grief. I’ve never, ever given…
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Julienne van Loon’s The Thinking Woman
Reviewed by Eugen Bacon. An insightful foreword by Anne Summers gives you hint of this philosophical book that celebrates being a woman. It is a compelling piece of art, autobiography and scholarship full of enchantment with play. It offers in its meditative approach to the everyday a journey that is also an inspiration, a sharing…
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Eugen Bacon’s Writing Speculative Fiction
Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “Genre and subgenre crossings in speculative fiction thrive in this world of blurred boundaries […] Genre bending is ‘writing different’[…] As more cross genre works emerge, authors and readers more and more realise text as a network spreading in all directions, as a field of possibilities unfolding […]” Writing Speculative Fiction…
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Review of Toby Fitch Where Only the Sky had Hung Before.
(Vagabond Press, 2019)by Helen Moore “Retweets are the new/Realism” The cover of Toby Fitch’s latest collection features a painting by the Australian constructivist sculptor Robert Klippel made in 1950. A curving, spiky form composed of fragments of colour, it juts into the sky like a bird crossed with a light aircraft at the moment of take-off. This…