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REVIEW — A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

May 26, 2025May 26, 2025

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Review: Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells
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Review: Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells

May 19, 2025May 19, 2025

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Unpacking Komarr: A Vorkosigan Saga Gem (Review)

April 28, 2025April 28, 2025

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Divided We Stand: A Look at John Scalzi’s The Human Division (OMW #5)

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025

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Book Review: After the Coup by John Scalzi

February 17, 2025March 17, 2025

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Book Review: The Lost Journal by James D. Marshon – a boy in 1967 Britain

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

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Book review: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold (Vorkosigan Saga #10)

January 13, 2025April 28, 2025

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Ten years in the writing – WWII novel All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

December 23, 2024December 21, 2024

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Book Review: Seven Drafts: Self-Edit Like a Pro from Blank Page to Book by Allison K. Williams

December 16, 2024December 16, 2024

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Review: Zoe’s Tale (Old Man’s War #4) – same novel, different perspective

November 18, 2024March 17, 2025

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  • Books
    • Seven Planets (Brightstar Trilogy #1)
    • As a Mere Breath: Short Stories
    • NUFF SED: A NOVEL OF DESERT STEVE
    • So Deep in Shadow: Short Stories
    • Mortals As They Walk
    • The Sky Over Chaos: Short Stories
    • To and Fro Upon the Earth: A Novel
    • Onesimus: A Novel of Christianity in the Roman Empire
  • BEHIND THE SCENES
  • BOOK REVIEWS
  • News & Notes
  • For Authors
    • Book Review Request
    • Schedule a Book Notice
    • Editing and Ghostwriting Services
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