Fantasy/Science Fiction

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Providence by Max Barry

Reviewed by Antonella Townsend Six-legged bear-sized aliens living and procreating like bees in enormous hives that float in deep space; a state-of-the-art weaponized space ship; a volatile crew of four; and, artificial intelligence (AI) so evolved that humans are superfluous. Such are the elements of Max Barry’s latest speculative novel – Providence. This is a

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The Cobra Queen by Tara Moss

Reviewed by Rod McLary Pandora English – the protagonist of this novel – is a living human being.  The word ‘living’ is used advisedly as the area of New York in which Pandora lives is populated by the living, the dead and the undead.  She lives in Spektor – an area of Manhattan where the

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QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling

Reviewed by Rod McLary QualityLand was a best seller when it was first published in Germany in 2016.  It has now been translated from the German to English and is to be published around the world.  The story is set sometime in the near future in a world which is largely run by robots and

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