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Category: A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

  • A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

Book review: vN (Madeline Ashby)

  • by JY Saville
  • Posted on October 28, 2016

This fast-paced science-fiction thriller from 2012 was Madeline Ashby‘s debut novel, the first of The…

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  • A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

Book Review: “The Sin Eater’s Daughter” by Melinda Salisbury

  • by JY Saville
  • Posted on July 22, 2016

The Sin Eater’s Daughter is the delicious first book in a new YA high fantasy…

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  • A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

Book Review: “The Gracekeepers” by Kirsty Logan

  • by JY Saville
  • Posted on April 22, 2016December 6, 2018

I’m not sure how to categorise The Gracekeepers (whether novels should be pigeon-holed at all…

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  • A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

Book Review: “The Lathe of Heaven” by Ursula K Le Guin

  • by JY Saville
  • Posted on January 22, 2016December 6, 2018

When I finally got round to reading Ursula Le Guin’s classic 1971 science fiction novel…

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  • A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

Book Review: “Clementine” by Cherie Priest

  • by JY Saville
  • Posted on October 23, 2015December 6, 2018

Clementine is the second novel in Cherie Priest‘s steampunk Clockwork Century series, set in the…

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  • A Random Walk Through Speculative Fiction

Book Review: “The Left-Handed Hummingbird” by Kate Orman

  • by JY Saville
  • Posted on April 24, 2015December 6, 2018

This – as proudly announced on the back cover blurb – was the first Doctor…

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