February 2012
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The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov: As...
This is not a proper review.
Most of you probably don’t know that I collect Isaac Asimov’s fiction. It all started when I read my mum’s copy of Foundation at the age of 12 and now, after much trawling of second hand bookshops (and a small amount of buying new copies of his still in print books — actually, I think I only have 6 new books: the Foundation trilogy because my...
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Reign of Beasts by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Reign of Beasts, by Tansy Rayner Roberts, is the final instalment of the Creature Court trilogy.
The series is excellent and a testament to how fantastic a writer Roberts is.
It’s not the kind of series where you can pick up the third (or second) book without having read the first two. Luckily for me, I read book one — Power and Majesty — and book two — The Shattered City...
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Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti
This book is part of Twelfth Planet Press’s “Twelve Planets” series. It is a collection of five short stories all set in a common world. I bought the ebook version and it’s also available in paperback and for Kindle.
Bad Power is set (mostly) in modern Sydney in a world where some people have an inexplicable power: talking to dead people, seeing the future, immortality,...
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Wanted: One Scoundrel by Jenny Schwartz
Originally posted here.
I stumbled upon this book quite by accident after following a link that took me to the author’s website. When I saw she had written a steampunk novella set in Australia, how could I possibly resist buying it? I didn’t really need the added incentive of being able to count it towards the Australian Women Writers Challenge. And before you argue, steampunk counts...
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The Spider Goddess by Tara Moss
The Spider Goddess is the second book in Tara Moss’s Pandora English series. I started reading it immediately after finishing the first book, The Blood Countess (gosh aren’t those iBooks links at the back of the book to the next in the series handy?), which I have reviewed here.
The Spider Goddess is a fun, quick read in a very similar vein to The Blood Countess. Pandora English is a...
