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The Future Fire Reviews: Wilson, Affinities (2015)
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Wilson, Affinities (2015). Robert Charles Wilson, The Affinities. Tor Books, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-7653-3262-2. $25.99. Reviewed by Don Riggs. Basically, without being too hyperbolic about it, it was like Asimov’s Foundation. Where we will meet a character and see him interact for two chapters or so, then move on to another generation, and so on. This is because the main character of Foundation. Similarly, the main character in The Affinities. One more thing: although this is no...
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The Future Fire Reviews: Mosley, Inside a Silver Box (2015)
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Monday, April 27, 2015. Mosley, Inside a Silver Box (2015). Walter Mosley, Inside a Silver Box. Tor Books, 2015. Pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-7653-7521-6. $15.99. Reviewed by Redfern Jon Barrett. Makes some difficult promises. Walter Mosley may be a prolifically successful author, but can his latest work meet this task, or is it too wide in scope for such a short text? More importantly: does it risk sacrificing plot and character development on the altar of philosophy? Ultimately, Inside a Silver Box. Cathcart, F...
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The Future Fire Reviews: July 2015
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Friday, July 17, 2015. Roberts and Wessely, Cranky Ladies of History (2015). Tansy Rayner Roberts and Tehani Wessely (eds.), Cranky Ladies of History. FableCroft Publishing, 2015. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-0-9925534-5-6. AUD$34.95. Reviewed by Valeria Vitale. Cranky Ladies of History. Friday, July 10, 2015. Kendall, Stranger Days (2015). Rachel Kendall, Stranger Days. Oneiros Books, 2015. Pp 149. ISBN 978-1-329-17123-7. $11.36. Reviewed by Cait Coker. Halfway through Rachel Kendall’s Stranger Days.
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The Future Fire Reviews: Wearing, Girl at the End of the World 2
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Monday, April 20, 2015. Wearing, Girl at the End of the World 2. Adele Wearing (ed.), The Girl at the End of the World: Book II. Fox Spirit Books, 2014. Pp. 434. ISBN 978-1-909348-58-8. £9.50. Reviewed by Don Riggs. Which depends on a fantasy-supernatural infestation of demons, and where certain of the survivors know how to exorcise them from possessed humans. Since the emphasis is on the Girl. The first story, “The Weed Wife” by C. Allegra Hawksmoor. In Dylan Fox’s “Hope Street,”. 8221; (143). Tying...
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The Future Fire Reviews: Guidelines
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8220;A good critic will exercise her imagination to find value in a book before she delivers the death blow.”. To submit a title for us to review:. If you are an author or a small publisher and have a title (book, magazine, film, story, interactive fiction, etc.) you'd like to offer for review in TFF. Please get in touch with nonfiction@futurefire.net(*). In the first instance, giving the one-line details of your work: " Author, Title. We cannot of course guarantee a positive review; we expect our review...
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The Future Fire Reviews: Howard, Touchstones (2014)
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Howard, Touchstones (2014). John Howard, Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic. Alchemy Press, 2014. Pp. 294. ISBN 978-0-9573489-7-4. £11.00. Reviewed by Małgorzata Mika. Serves as an entrée to Leiber’s fiction, with Our Lady of Darkness. I’m Looking for Jeff. Saga to reveal the power of the writing craft of Lovecraft’s friend. I dare suspect that behind the literary voracity of Howard’s academic mind lies a certain sympathy for Derleth’s writing, followed by ...The necessity to em...
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The Future Fire Reviews: O’Flaherty, King of the Cracksmen (2015)
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Friday, May 15, 2015. O’Flaherty, King of the Cracksmen (2015). Dennis O’Flaherty, King of the Cracksmen. Night Shade Books, 2015. Pp. 326. ISBN 978-1-59780-551-3. $15.99. Reviewed by Wendy Bousfield. Subtitled “ A Steampunk Entertainment. 8217;s post-Civil War America is informed by O’Flaherty’s extraordinarily detailed knowledge of nineteenth century history and culture. Cracksmen. 8217; in golden letters twenty feet tall. Towering above the motto, and picked out day and night with colossal carbon-...
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The Future Fire Reviews: Wilchcombe, Neob (2015)
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Monday, June 15, 2015. Wilchcombe, Neob (2015). V E Wilchcombe, Neob. Austin Macauley Publishers, 2015. Pp. 146. ISBN 978-1-78455-052-3. £6.99. Reviewed by John Marr. The story takes place on the awkwardly named planet of Neob, an idyllic world that owes an awful lot to James Cameron’s film Avatar. The novel also suffers from an extreme case of serial escalation. This is a phenomenon that is more commonly seen in such anime series as Naruto. Or Dragon Ball Z. The book could have stood to be more thorough...
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The Future Fire Reviews: Helgadóttir & Thomas, European Monsters (2014)
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Helgadóttir and Thomas, European Monsters (2014). Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas (edd.), European Monsters. Fox Spirit Books, 2014. Pp. 159. ISBN 978-1-909348-72-1. £10.00/$15.00. Reviewed by Valeria Vitale. The anthology opens with J.C. Grimwood’s “Herne,”. Is an elegantly written tale about the chief of a Viking tribe and the process of christianisation of its village and the whole area. Maybe not terribly bothered with historical accuracy, but definitely a good story o...
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The Future Fire Reviews: Bestiary (A cappella Zoo #10, 2013)
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Saturday, April 27, 2013. Bestiary (A cappella Zoo #10, 2013). A Magazine of Magic Realism and Slipstream, Issue 10: Bestiary: The Best of the Inaugural Demi-Decade of A cappella Zoo. Spring 2013 (March). Pp. 330. ISSN 1945-7480. $9.00. Reviewed by Brian Eisley. Is a journal of magic realism and slipstream fiction and poetry, currently edited by Amanda Lyn DiSanto and Lisa McCool-Grime. Founded in 2008, A cappella Zoo. One example is Roxane Gay’s ‘Requiem for a Glass Heart’. We learn the story of a young...
