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Dagger of the Mind by  by Bob Shaw
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Dagger of the Mind is a speculative fiction book by Bob Shaw. Dagger of the Mind, is a strange book. It takes off normally (well..) enough, Redpath is an epileptic living in a small english town. To make a buck, he participates in a series of experiments involving a new drug Compound 183. The...

Article by TC on 1st June 1999
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Damnation Alley by  by Roger Zelazny
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Damnation Alley is a post-apocalytic tale of survival by the Hugo and Nebula award winner Roger Zelazny. Set in the decades after a devastating nuclear war, the former USA is a very different place. With mass destruction, dangerous mutants, large areas of deadly radiation and a worldwide wind...

Article by Ant on 19th November 2009
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Dangerous Visions by  by Harlan Ellison
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Dangerous Visions was originally published in 1967 and was the brain child of it's editor Harlan Ellison. Anthologies rarely attract the kind of attention that this one has over the years but then most don't win major awards for more than half a dozen of it's stories either. Hugo award wins...

Article by Ant on 9th March 2012
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Dare to Know by  by James Kennedy
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If you could find out your exact time of death down to the last second, would you take up the option? For some it could be liberating, they will pack their lives until the last moment. For others, their death will become even more of a...

Article by Sam Tyler on 16th September 2021
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Dark Dweller by  by Gareth Worthington
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The problem with being zipped away by some alien entity and then shown how the Universe works is that no one will believe you on your return. Imagine your friend returning from their lunch break to say that they have just been told that the world is going to end in two days unless we all follow...

Article by Sam Tyler on 28th February 2023
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Dark Eden by  by Chris Beckett
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This review was originally published in 2012 and has been re-published following the launch of the book in the US, published by Crown Publishing. I often start a review with a bit of blurb about the book itself, setting the scene for the reader and I try to never give too much away - limiting...

Article by Ant on 14th April 2014
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Dark Ink by  by Gary Kemble
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People have power over on another. Someone who is charismatic may be able to manipulate others to do their bidding even against their own best interests. The opposite sex can also have power. What would you do to be with the partner you love/lust for? Mistress Hel is a Dominatrix...

Article by Sam Tyler on 21st September 2019
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Dark Intelligence by  by Neal Asher
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I've been collecting Neal Asher novels for ages however until now I've not had chance to read much of his work. Luckily Dark Intelligence has been sent in for review and so I've finally had chance to discover the delight that is the Polity Universe.

Dark Intelligence is all about...

Article by Ant on 30th March 2015
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Dark Light by  by Ken Mcleod
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Dark Light is the second volume in the Engines of Light series by Ken Mcleod. This is the first time that I've had any kind of doubt as to what I should write about a MacLeod book. Normally I would just heap words of praise upon other words of praise, until it hit a fitting length for a...

Article by TC on 1st October 2001
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Dark Lullaby by  by Polly Ho-Yen
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They all tell you that having children is not easy, but nothing prepared us for the first six weeks of having a defenceless little tyke in the house. You may have read the books, been to a few classes or asked relatives and friends, but when it comes down to it, this is all on your...

Article by Sam Tyler on 23rd March 2021
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Dark Run by  by Mike Brooks
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From the opening chapter I knew this was going to be good. Dark Run launches the reader into a shady future where bickering governments are working to extend their reach across space while criminals and outlaws try to make a quick buck under their noses and out on the frontiers. Fans of Firefly...

Article by Aaron Miles on 19th August 2015
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Dark Seeker by  by K W Jeter
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Dark Seeker is a speculative fiction novel by K W Jeter. This is basically a horror novel with group drug use/experimentation as the theme. Like a Tim powers or Phil dick book it's got a skewed version of Los Angeles where a group of kids under a university teacher -and a off track...

Article by number 6 on 19th August 2010
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Dark Sky by  by Mike Brooks
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The crew of the Keiko are back. Mike Brooks hammers out the sequel to his epic, sci-fi adventure, Dark Run; Dark Sky, and it truly is an incredible adventure. It continues the rapid-fire wit from the first, harkens back to the space opera/western of Firefly and blends two different perspectives...

Article by Sam on 17th June 2016
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Dark Stars by  by John F D Taff
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I am a massive genre fan, but I have not always had a good relationship with horror anthologies for the simple reason that they have scared me in the past. The shorter form of horror story can give a jolt to the reader’s senses and then disappear, only to live on in freaky flashbacks. From...

Article by Sam Tyler on 5th May 2022
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A weighty tome that dramatises the historical events of the Huari Empire in the Andes, mixing in a fantasy plot, Dark Sun, Bright Moon is difficult to categorise. On one hand we have a meticulously researched historical context with pictures and appendices to explain terms and illustrate scenes,...

Article by Allen Stroud on 28th May 2015
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Dark Visions by  by Douglas E Winter
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I brought this one by mistake – I thought that it was the new collection containing a new Stephen King short story set in the Dark Tower universe. It wasn't but it's still a nice "little" collection of horror stories. Dark Visions contains seven stories; three by Stephen King, three by Dan...

Article by TC on 10th January 2001
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I must admit I watched the entire series of Dexter before I even picked up one of Lindsay’s novels. Did I do the right thing? Yes and no. I absolutely loved the show, one of my faves. The book? Awesome too. I will definitely be adding them to my collection in the near future. Are they the...

Article by Arron on 18th June 2013
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Review by Arron Clegg. (*Darkness Comes is also known as Darkfall). In his early days Dean spent a lot of time trying different genres out and attempting different writing styles. Nowadays he is more famous for writing about events and stories which are very feasible in the modern world....

Article by Arron on 14th June 2012
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Darkness Falls by  by P. J. Flie
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There are two ways of writing a trilogy of books. One way is to produce three separate novels that can be read independently or viewed as a whole. The other way is to start each book as soon as the last one ends and power through the tale a great speed. This is how P. J. Flie’s Darkness...

Article by Sam Tyler on 17th May 2023
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Darwins Radio by  by Greg Bear
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Darwins Radio is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear. Just the title alone should give you a good idea as to the subject of this book. Yes, Bear has returned to genetics and luckily Darwin's Radio is a lot better than Blood Music (not that hard). Christopher Dicken finds a mass grave with...

Article by TC on 1st June 2000
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The best thing about Amanda Foody’s debut lies in the title itself. Her ‘Burning City’ is an immersive, sensory experience that rivets from the very first page. The smoke from her traveling circus wafts off the page, the dirt and ash from the trodden ground almost tangible on the tongue....

Article by Alice Wybrew on 20th November 2017
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Daughters of the Forgotten Light is set in a deep space penal colony called Oubliette. Floating in space, it's home to the most savage criminals and other members of the population Earth no longer wants.

To survive on Oubiette you need to join a gang and Lena "Horror" Horowitz...

Article by Ant on 10th September 2018
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Day Shift is the second novel in Charlaine Harris's Midnight Texas series, following on from the quite excellent novel Midnight Crossroad we reviewed in May last year. It's a welcome return to the inhabitants of the strange small cross-road town that is Midnight. There doesn't seem to be...

Article by Ant on 22nd May 2015
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Day Zero by  by C Robert Cargill
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Asimov’s ‘Three laws of Robotics’ have become synonymous with any book that contains robots. Nearly all these books will not allow their robots to hurt humans, but what happens if these rules broke? In C. Robert Cargill’s Day...

Article by Sam Tyler on 20th May 2021
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Daylight on Iron Mountain is the second book in David Wingrove's epic re-imagining of his Chung Kuo series and follows on from the events in the incredible novel Son of Heaven, I seriously recommend you read that novel first. Although we still have the characters of Jack, Mary and their family...

Article by Ant on 1st November 2011
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Dead Beat by  by Jim Butcher
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The Word of Kemmler, a book of potentially catastrophic power should it fall into the wrong hands. Mortiferous forces have gathered in Chicago and it would seem the windy city may be the resting place of the ancient tome.

Of course that means it's up to Harry to prevent the book falling...

Article by Ant on 20th April 2015
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Dead by Dawn by  by Guido Henkel
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Dead by Dawn is the 7th novel in the Jason Dark series by Guido Henkel. A woman in good health dies overnight, and to make matters worse it's Jason Dark's next door neighbour who's snuffed it, something wicked is at work in London town. As his investigation leads him down to the seedy...

Article by Ant on 3rd January 2011
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Dead Harvest by  by Chris F Holm
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I’m going to start by saying that this isn’t usually a book I’d consider reading, my usual reads being Sci-Fi and Fantasy (usually humorous), or history books, but I was very surprised and really, really enjoyed it.

The book is seen through the eyes of a Collector, Sam Thornton,...

Article by Rob on 28th January 2013
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Dead Heat to Destiny by  by J B Rivard
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I am a student of History and still find the tales that it can tell us fascinating. On the surface the stories are of Kings or Queens, of epic battles between nations, of horror on an industrial scale, but below the surface is the history of the likes of you and me. I am not a hero or villain,...

Article by Sam Tyler on 9th February 2023
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Dead Lines by  by Greg Bear
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Dead Lines is a science fiction horror novel by Greg Bear. Peter Russell’s life turned out much different than he expected. He wanted to write books but instead made a living taking picture and making movies of naked people when the soft porn industry flat-lined. Now he is a little more than...

Article by TC on 25th April 2004
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Dead Man's Steel is the third and final volume in the Grim Company Series by Luke Scull. We reviewed the first book in the series - The Grim Company - back in 2013 and remarked that it was one of the best fantasy books of the year.

Last year the Sword in the North, the second in...

Article by Ant on 23rd December 2016
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Christopher Golden is an acclaimed American Author. He has worked in Horror, Fantasy, Teen and Young Adult fiction. He's known for his tie in novels for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and his collaboration work with Mike Magnolia, Nancy Holder and Amber Benson.

His latest book ‘Dead...

Article by Tracey Holmes on 1st March 2016
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Dead Things was one of the few books I bought with post-christmas vouchers, after first seeing the author on twitter where he regularly trades jokes with Chuck Wendig. It's an urban fantasy adventure that follows the life of Eric Carter.

Eric's a necromancer, an angry young necromancer...

Article by Ant on 16th March 2016
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David Sutton’s fascination with horror stories has led him to a considerable career immersed in the macabre and terrifying. Looking back over his work it is surprising to me that I’m only just discovering him as a writer, although I am indebted to his editorial skills on Dark Horizons, a...

Article by Allen Stroud on 11th April 2015
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Dead Winter by  by CL Werner
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Dead Winter is the first novel in a new series that's set within the "Time of Legends" collection, itself set within Warhammer Fantasy with the aim to tell the stories of some of the greatest heroes of the Warhammer world.

A thousand years have passed since the Age of Sigmar and the...

Article by Ant on 7th May 2012
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Deadhouse Gates is the second book in the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. Picking up where Gardens of the Moon left off, Deadhouse Gates reunites a host of old characters and throws some new ones into the fray. This time the action is focused not on Genabackis, but on the...

Article by TC on 27th February 2005
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Christmas has many traditions from trees to strange men sneaking down the chimney in the dead of night. One tradition I like is the different genres that tackle the season. There is something spooky about the dark nights and folk traditions that make Christmas Ghost Stories so good, but it is...

Article by Sam Tyler on 6th November 2024
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Death Comes Too Late by  by Charles Ardai
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There is an art to the short story. They should not try to emulate their longer cousins, or even the novelette format. A short story should pop up, throws a few punches then head off again without a backwards glance, but the best of them with leave an impression, a lingering sense of something...

Article by Sam Tyler on 15th April 2024
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Although Graham never seems to have reached the dizzy heights of other horror writers he has been a very prolific writer over the years, and has seen a few of his works hit the silver screen. However, forever in the shadow of the likes of Herbert, another British horror novelist, these movie...

Article by Arron on 28th May 2013
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Death Drop by  by Sean Allen
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Death Drop is a science fiction novel by Sean Allen. The last known human was exterminated over 400,000 years ago and the known universe is ruled by the savage race known as the Durax, keeping control with their compelling mind powers. War rages against this vehement race and the free people...

Article by Ant on 26th May 2011
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Death Masks by  by Jim Butcher
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The fifth book in the Dresden Files following the adventures of that intrepid wizard Harry Dresden. It begins as Dresden books often do, with attempts on Harry's life and that pretty much sets the pace for the whole story.

If you've read the previous books you will be familiar with the...

Article by Ant on 10th December 2014
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Death Most Definite is an urban fantasy novel by Trent Jamieson. Steven de Selby has a most unusual career, he helps spirits pass to the underworld, and stops Zombies (stirrers) walking the earth. He and his parents are necromancers, also known as "pomps". This being the 21st century, these...

Article by Ant on 11th September 2010
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It would appear that to be a fictional Private Investigator you must have something that you are addicted to be it booze, drugs, women, glue. The options seem endless, but Kimberly G. Giarratano’s Death of a Dancing Queen is the first time I have come across a PI addicted to life. Billie...

Article by Sam Tyler on 14th March 2023
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I have always loved the Arthurian legend, there is something quite special about King Arthur, the Knights of Camelot and of course Merlin, by far my favourite character from the stories. One of my favourite cartoons is still the Disney classic "the Sword in the Stone" and I always look forward...

Article by Ant on 12th April 2012
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I read a lot of genre fiction that has been mixed with a crime drama as it is an excellent way of giving a story a solid throughline. A murder mystery can concentrate the narrative when exploring a high concept Science Fiction world. It is also a great way of giving grit to an Urban Fantasy...

Article by Sam Tyler on 3rd June 2025
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Death's Disciples is a dark urban fantasy novel by J Robert King and published by Angry Robot Books. When she woke up in the hospital, she could barely remember getting on the flight, let alone the terrorist bomb of that killed everyone else on board. But she can hear the voices in her head,...

Article by Ant on 2nd January 2011
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I'm often saying that there just isn't enough well written comic fantasy, aside from the likes of Pratchett, Holt, Howard and Rankin the laugh-out-load novels still being written are few and far between and in large the genre is being propped up by writers such as Rob Knipe and RJ Astruc....

Article by Ant on 6th December 2013
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There have been thousands of years of conflict between humans and parahumans, a war that's been happening in secret has finally reached an uneasy truce. But now this peace is threatened by the awakening of an unspeakable evil, a sadistic serial killer who is slaughtering teenage shapeshifters...

Article by Ant on 10th June 2011
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Deathworld 3 by  by Harry Harrison
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Another fun filled and action packed book from the man who has given us The Stainless Steal Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero. The Deathworld stories are much like these other two series, the main difference being that the Deathworld stories are a bit more bloody and a lot less humorous. Not that...

Article by TC on 1st August 1999
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Debris by  by Jo Anderton
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Tanyana has the innate talent to manipulate the very particles that hold matter together, as one of the most skilled pionners in a far-future society she can craft almost anything with just her concentration. An accident however brings her whole life crashing down and she is virtually cast out...

Article by Ant on 5th October 2011
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Deception Well by  by Linda Nagata
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Deception Well is a science fiction novel by Linda Nagata. In this, the third book from this new master, Linda Nagata takes us to the far future and away from earth - paradoxically the characters in this book aren't quite as strange as the characters in her first two books (The Bohr Maker and...

Article by TC on 1st March 1999
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Deep Dive by  by Ron Walters
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If you had the chance to start over again from an early age and know what you do now, would you take it? A chance to live your life again; buy those shares in Apple, know some of the exam questions and football results? The answer for me is no. 80 years more life is not...

Article by Sam Tyler on 21st January 2022
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Defender by  by GX Todd
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In the dark future of Defender, the majority of the worlds population have died. Killed by themselves and others who were listening to voices steering their horrific actions.

Those who survived live in a hostile environment, unable to trust strangers and fighting over limited...

Article by Ant on 21st November 2016
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Demon Gates by  by Robert Day
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Demon Gates is a high fantasy novel by Robert Day. The land of Kil’Tar has a long and bloody history of war between the Kay‘taari and the Ashar’an. Aided by Dragonkind, the Kay’taari have protected the world against the Ashar’an and their demonic followers for many centuries. With...

Article by Ant on 16th January 2011
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Demon Road by  by Derek Landy
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I’m already a fan of Landy’s previous work, Demon Road shows some of the same great dialogue and riveting narrative that made his Skulduggery Pleasant series such a great read. But his latest offering is definitely darker in tone and content, with murderous demon parents, twisted witches,...

Article by Aaron Miles on 4th February 2016
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Demon Seed by  by Dean Koontz
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A book so good he had to write it twice? Actually that’s a fair statement to make. Demon Seed was originally written in the 70’s and then thirty years later was completely re-written. The story and plot remains the same but what Koontz has done is move the novel into the 21st century with...

Article by Arron on 9th January 2013
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As a committed reader, you start to see the signs that you are living a long life. One stark reminder is when a favourite author dies. This has happened too often already for my liking; one particularly heavy hit was Sir Terry Pratchett. In a world in which authors continue to write into their...

Article by Sam Tyler on 14th November 2024
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Darrell Pitt delivers a new take on two well-loved genres in his series Teen Superheroes. Mixing Superhero with Alien Invasion, Pitt creates a world on the verge of an invisible war whose salvation rests in the hands of five teenagers, each as unique as their country of origin. In book one,...

Article by D. L. Denham on 11th July 2014
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Diaspora by  by Greg Egan
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Diaspora is a science fiction novel by the Australian author Greg Egan. About a thousand years in our future an entity is born. Not of man and woman , but as an orphan of Konishi Polis. A Polis is a virtual reality society, where a group of computerbased intelligences are living. There are...

Article by TC on 8th October 2002
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Dillons Dream: Water and Earth is a speculative fiction novel by Dr Shawn Phillips and has been written for young adults and adults alike. Dillon lives in the picturesque Antelope Valley in California and ready to graduate high school very soon. One fateful day his life is torn apart by a...

Article by Ant on 18th September 2010
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Dinosaur Summer by  by Greg Bear
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Greg Bear's Dinosaur Summer is a follow up to the old The Lost World a novel written by Sir Author Connan Doyle, taking place in 1947. After Professor Challanger returned from the Lost World, there were a lot of follow up expeditions and dinosaurs were taken back to civilisation, where...

Article by TC on 1st June 1999
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Disaster Park by  by Mark Konkel
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Disaster Park is a science fiction novel by Mark Konkel. Imagine that you could experience the greatest (or worst) disasters in human history, be on board the Titanic as it leaves Southhampton docks on the 10th April 1912 or perhaps a visitor on the 92nd floor of the North Tower on that fateful...

Article by Ant on 3rd December 2010
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One man's quest for the justice of his wronged mother brings war to a land made soft by a forced but enduring peace. As the conflict spreads a few survivors flee into an alien world of currency, corruption, commerce and cruelty while behind them a long buried darkness returns, something that the...

Article by Ant on 16th November 2011
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Disintegration by  by Darren Speegle
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Being a short story lover I’m delighted that dark fiction anthologies are so popular today, but since anthologies are, by definition, mixed bags I’m also aware that in any collection there are stories which are able to enchant and others which simply do not work, even if penned by...

Article by Mario Guslandi on 19th November 2023
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Dissolution by  by Nicholas Binge
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Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you went in there in the first place? Could just be a good old fashioned brain burp, but perhaps it is something more sinister. In Nicholas Binge’s Dissolution there is a character who knows too much, so much that their mind is being wiped...

Article by Sam Tyler on 2nd April 2025
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Distress by  by Greg Egan
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Distress is a science fiction novel by the Australian author Greg Egan. Once again Egan grabs an idea and takes it to the limit, this time to the ultimate limit. In Quarantine he tackled quantum Mechanics, this time he takes on nothing less than the Theory Of Everything (TOE). The year is 2055...

Article by TC on 1st May 1999
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Divergent by  by Veronica Roth
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Divergent is the kind of book I stay awake reading until 4am. It gripped me and didn’t let go, staying with me when I closed the book with a rush of adrenaline and a serious hankering for its sequel.

The novel takes place in Tris Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, where society is...

Article by Vanessa on 12th May 2014
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Divine Endurance and Flowerdust, - two novels collected together for the first time exclusively as an e-book and known as "The Last Days Of Ranaganar" - are set within a far-future south-east Asia, a future that is hardly recognizable from the present and one that seems both medieval and...

Article by Ant on 6th March 2013
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Divine Extinction by  by Hylton H Smith
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Divine Extinction is the second volume in the Evilution series, a near future series set in an alternative history, written by Hylton H Smith. Four years after the narrow escape from a cataclymic disaster humanity thought itself safe and sound, recovered and with a stronger, safer SACRED...

Article by Ant on 15th June 2011
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Divine Fanaticism by  by Robin G Howard
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Divine Fanaticism is the fourth novel in the Jim Long series by Robin G Howard. Long ago on the planet Thraeot a religous order was created that was shrouded in miraculous mythology, now the political environment of the planet has become unbalanced and mass scale war appears imminent. To make...

Article by Ant on 3rd October 2010
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Power is an interesting dynamic; some people want it, whilst others have no interest at all. Joan of Arc had a lot of power for a while but then it went (being burned at the stake will do that to you). Was she a heretic and a witch that craved this power, or was she someone caught up...

Article by Sam Tyler on 28th August 2020
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Divine Murder by  by Ward Kelley
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Divine Murder is a speculative fiction novel by Ward Kelley. One of the most fascinating elements of reading a fairy tale or a science fiction is the acceptance of a magical world where angels alight serenely with outstretched wings, birds and animals converse fluently, and uncommon things...

Article by Anonymous on 3rd September 2010
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the classic novel that became the film Blade Runner. Written by legendary award winning author Philip K Dick. The aftermath of the World War Terminus sees a devastated Earth with severe radioactive fallout and most of nature destroyed. Many of the survivors...

Article by Ant on 15th October 2010
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Doctor Aphra by  by Sarah Kuhn
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When an intellectual property becomes huge it can go one of two ways, a homogeneous blob of the same stories on repeat, or a vibrant universe full of different adventures. Star Wars was already massive, but recently has branched out even wider. This included a reset of the...

Article by Sam Tyler on 7th April 2021
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Okay I must admit that when I heard about this book coming into existence I must say I was rather excited, hell, it was more than that it was like sliced bread. Doctor Sleep for those who aren’t aware, is the sequel, of sorts, to The Shining, one of the best books Mr King has written in my...

Article by Arron on 3rd February 2014
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There is a knack to adaptation, we have all seen a film made from a book. Many have read an adaptation of a film, but can you make a prose adaptation of a comic book? We see superheroes in the cinema every month, the action and colour sparks on the big screen, but bringing forth all that imagery...

Article by Sam Tyler on 26th March 2024
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Dodger by  by Terry Pratchett
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Dodger, a young sewer "tosher" who works beneath the streets of Victorian London is guided along series of events that will transform his life and those around him. It all starts when a young women is beset upon by two ruffians and Dodger rescues the young lady from certain death.

I was...

Article by Ant on 1st October 2012
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Dogs of War by  by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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I don't know how he does it, but Adrian Tchaikovsky manages to get inside the heads of different creatures and allow us to see through their eyes. Last time I read one of his books it was Spiders, this time it's Dogs, Bears, Bees and Lizards.

Dogs of War imagines that we've...

Article by Ant on 4th June 2018
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Dolores Claiborne is a horror novel by the master of the genre Stephen King. I got Dolores Claiborne (DC) as a gift over half a year ago, but after having read The Regulators I haven't really felt like reading any King. Having read about DC in alt.books.stephen-king, I definitely didn't want to...

Article by TC on 14th October 1999
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Domino: Strays by  by Tristan Palmgren
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As a superhero fan, the last couple of decades have been fantastic. The comics have had countless film adaptations and prose novels. This abundance of content has allowed content creators to explore the idea of superpowers more. We are no longer in the age of Gods,...

Article by Sam Tyler on 6th October 2020
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Dooku: Jedi Lost by  by Cavan Scott
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Star Wars is a franchise rich with great characters, but who to choose? It is tricky writing a cannon book on the likes of likes Han Solo or Rey lest you impinge on the films themselves. Thankfully, with such an abundance of history to choose from, there is always an interesting character to...

Article by Sam Tyler on 15th November 2019
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Doomsday Planet by  by Harl Vincent
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Doomsday Planet is a classic science fiction novel by the author Harl Vincent. On the edge of known space the planet Ormin spins a massive invisible web, radiating a deadly and mysterious energy. Far out in space aboard the ethership Meteoric, Jack Donley was the first to sense the sinister,...

Article by Ant on 22nd November 2008
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Doors of Sleep by  by Tim Pratt
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Making an author come up with a single science fiction concept is tricky enough, but to ask them to come up with an infinite number of multiverses is just plain mean. Tim Pratt only have themselves to blame as they choice to take Zaxony Delatree on an adventure...

Article by Sam Tyler on 12th January 2021
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Doorways in the Sand by  by Roger Zelazny
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I have always been a fan of Roger Zelazny. When I was a teenager, The Chronicles of Amber were a library book quest to find the whole set, which never quite happened, so it wasn’t until later in adult life that I was able to purchase the bumper edition that contained them all.

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Article by Allen Stroud on 2nd November 2017
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Dorothy The Darker Side of Oz by Scott Stanford is a modern, dark interpretation of the classic "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (originally written by L. Frank Baum). Having seen the original film a number of times (not a fan but the family are) and not actually having read the book, my...

Article by Ant on 17th July 2010
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Double Feature by  by Donald E Westlake
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The movie industry is seen as all glitz and glamour, but just beneath the surface Donald E. Westlake suggests that it is made up of lies and even murder. What type of person is drawn to an industry where you pretend to be fake – fake people. In Double Feature, two of Westlake’s...

Article by Sam Tyler on 31st January 2020
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Double or Nothing by  by Kim Sherwood
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James Bond has evolved through the decades from the original Ian Fleming books to a world-famous series of films and even classic computer games, but at their heart the best Bonds all hark back to Fleming’s style. Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood is a surprise then as it is a Bond book...

Article by Sam Tyler on 31st August 2022
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Down Station by  by Simon Morden
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Down Station is actually a real station on the London Underground. You can't however visit this place though, the Trains don't stop there and if you're lucky you can but catch a glimpse of it between Green Park and Hyde Park Corner on the Piccadilly Line. You can see the outside of this...

Article by Ant on 4th March 2016
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Down to the Bone by  by Justina Robson
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Down to the Bone is the first novel I have read in the Quantum Gravity series and indeed the first by Justina Robson, as such this review should be seen from that perspective; how a novice of the series will fare jumping in at the fifth and final volume. The idea behind Quantum Gravity is that...

Article by Ant on 24th October 2011
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Dracula Cha Cha Cha is the third novel in the Anno Dracula series, set in the alternative history of 1959 where Vampires are just another part of the population. This time we are in Rome as Vampires, intellectuals and other important people are gathering to witness the marriage of the count...

Article by Ant on 22nd October 2012
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At the basic level, Marc Turner’s Dragon Hunters is about three things: huge water-dragons, awesome sword-fights, and Machiavellian politics. The second book in Turner’s Chronicles of the Exiles trilogy - although not strictly a sequel to the first When The Heavens Fall - also has a...

Article by Danny on 9th May 2016
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Dragon Queen by  by Stephen Deas
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The fifth book in the dragon series by Stephen Deas, Dragon Queen is certainly value by weight of pages. The previous tale, The Black Mausoleum weighed in at just over three hundred in the mass market paperback, whereas Dragon Queen is twice that and a little more.

The first trilogy of...

Article by Allen Stroud on 6th January 2016
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Dragon Rider is the second novel is the Prophecy of the Kings series, written by David Burrows. After the climatic cliff hanger at the end of Legacy of the Eldric, we find our intrepid adventurers return to a world that has changed without them. War now threatens the land and Nations who once...

Article by Ant on 30th March 2010
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Arianus, the World of Air, is composed entirely of porous floating islands, aligned in three basic altitudes. In the Low Realm, the dwarves (called "Gegs", an elven word for "insects") live on the continent Drevlin and cheerfully serve the giant Kicksey-winsey, a city-sized...

Article by Ant on 5th August 2008
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Dragonfly Falling is the second volume in the Shadows of the Apt series, folowing on directly from the events of "Empire in Black and Gold" At the start of Dragonfly Falling the two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly...

Article by Ant on 18th March 2009
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For some reason the dragon has captured the imagination of each generation. From Smaug in The Hobbit to Disney’s Mulan and recently George RR Martin’s contemporary classic “A Song of Ice and Fire”, each putting their own particular spin on the myth. I must admit that I’m a sucker for a...

Article by Ant on 25th July 2011
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Drake by  by Peter McLean
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I picked this book up as I was looking for more urban fantasy to try. I love the Dresden files and given that new books in that series only seem to appear infrequently, I was getting an urban fantasy itch. This book stood out as it was recommended by talented and under-appreciated author Dave...

Article by Ant on 17th August 2024
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Dreadnought by  by Mark Walden
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Dreadnought is the fourth Volume in the H.I.V.E (Higher Institute of Villainous Education) Young Adult series, written by Mark Walden. Hive is a school where villains rule, students are trained to be the best at the worst in the hope they will become the next great super-villian. One of the...

Article by Ant on 2nd September 2009
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Dream Alchemy by  by Nicholas Boyd Crutchley
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A book filled with ideas and scenes that demonstrate a strong command of both language and writing, Dream Alchemy by Nicholas Boyd Crutchley is a tricky text to review, mostly because it lacks a coherent story.

Crutchley is playing with a multiple reality concept. We have occasional...

Article by Allen Stroud on 10th November 2015
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Dreamcatcher is a horror novel by Stephen King. This is the first novel from King since his accident and as that eagerly awaited - did he damage more than his hip? Would all his stories from now on be stuffed with references to his own accident and the horror that is recovery? Or even worse;...

Article by TC on 1st April 2001
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Readers and reviewers of dark fiction have certainly noticed, during the last years, that the number of Australian authors appearing in books published in the UK and in USA is constantly on the rise, and that the quality of their contributions is usually top notch. This Australian renaissance,...

Article by Mario Guslandi on 20th March 2017
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Dreaming of Eden by  by James Lucien
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Dreaming of Eden is a science fiction novel by James Lucien. In the dystopian future of 2049, a ravaged world, divided into four Super States, is locked into a continuous war for diminishing resources. Under the oppression of a totalitarian government, an Elite DHS hacker, a robotics scientist,...

Article by Ant on 1st February 2011
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Dreams and Shadows is a contemporary urban fantasy fairytale which tells the story of two young boys Ewan and Colby who both become embroiled in the secret world of the Limestone Kingdom - a parallel world where Wizards and Genie's co-inhabit with creatures much older and largely forgotten. Ewan...

Article by Ant on 26th March 2013
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Dreams of Chaos, the first in a trilogy by Allen Stroud, is a companion piece to the computer game Chaos Reborn from Snapshot Games. Set in the 14th Century, it explores an alternative history of our world mainly set between Europe and the Far East with copious amounts of wizardry and religious...

Article by Phil Sloman on 5th August 2016
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Dredd vs Death by  by John Wagner
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I read and listen to books in all formats, but still prefer the feel of paper in my hand. Audiobooks are great for the commute, but they are just not pacy enough for me, I read quickly, and a narrator often seems to go in slow motion even at 1.5 speed. 2000AD and Penguin Audio must know my brain...

Article by Sam Tyler on 7th October 2022
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Drood by  by Dan Simmons
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A secret manuscript by Charles Dickens friend Wilkie Collins that has been sealed away for 125 years reveals a dark secret that obsessed both freiends, a secret that ended their friendship and almost caused murder. On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress,...

Article by Ant on 7th May 2009
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Druid's Bane is the first volume in the Arkaelyon Chronicles, written by Phillip Henderson. The Illandian Spring Tournament is about to reach its crescendo. With the king’s only daughter, Danielle de Brie, and her twin brother, Kane, preparing to face each other in the tourney ring for the...

Article by Ant on 16th January 2011
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Dune by  by Frank Herbert
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It's hard to believe that Dune is over 50 years old. Originally released in 1965 it won the inaugural Nebula award for best novel and tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award.

It's sold well in excess of 12 million copies around the world and is one of the world's...

Article by Ant on 9th August 2017
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Dune by  by Frank Herbert
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Throughout history many have searched for ways to live longer, from healthy eating and exercise to eliminating illness and seeking an elixir of life. I think it’s fair to say it’s a common goal to extend our lifespan.

What would you say if I told you there was a substance...

Article by Ant on 8th September 2021
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Dune Series by  by Frank Herbert
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For a span of twenty years, genre fiction fans had the opportunity to live through what many call the greatest science fiction tale of all tune, Frank Herbet’s epic Dune series. The saga consists of six novels: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969), Children of Dune (1976), God...

Article by Michael Feeney on 20th January 2020
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Dust and Desire by  by Conrad Williams
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I don't often get the chancce to read a crime novel and so when Titan Books let slip that the third novel in the Joel Sorrell series was about to be released I couldn't resist giving the series a try. Dust and Desire is the first book featuring the PI and sets the scene prefectly.

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Article by Ant on 28th November 2016
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Dying Inside by  by Robert Silverberg
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Robert Silverberg has been long acknowledged as a leader in the filed of Science Fiction, and in 1972 he published a novel that was immediately and widely hailed as a masterpiece. More than 30 years later, Dying inside has stood the test of time and is now recognized as one of the finest novels...

Article by Ant on 1st November 2009
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Dying Star: Exodus by  by Samsun Lobe
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The self-proclaimed Emperor Vas returns to stamp his will on the unsuspecting Virtues of Son Gebshu's moon. His inflexible will and iron determination manages to breed resentment which fast leads to an all-out civil war. Meanwhile on the dying planet below the temperature continues to plummet,...

Article by Ant on 16th March 2012
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Dying Star: Prophecy by  by Samsun Lobe
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Dying Star: Prophecy is the first volume in a new Scifi series Dying Star, written by Samsun Lobe. The Star Shu is slowly dying, becoming a black dwarf as it's remaining energy depletes. This causes the orbiting planet Gebshu and it's moon to change beyond recognition. The world becomes...

Article by Ant on 1st May 2010
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