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The Lifecycle of Software Objects, by Ted Chiang
I read this online at Subterranean, where it originally appeared. I found it really hard to rate this story on Goodreads. Not that I don’t think it’s an utterly incredible story – I do. But I found the...
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Sorcerer of the Wildeeps
This was provided to me by the publisher. This is not a straightforward novel. The plot is not linear, the characters are slippery, and so is the language sometimes. But it is engaging and haunting and...
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Binti: Home
This novella was sent to me by the publisher at no cost. It will be out on 31 January 2017. What does it mean to go home? What does home mean? What does it mean to belong? If others don’t accept you,...
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Girl Reporter
I received a review copy of this because, well, I asked my good friend Tansy if I could read it early and she said yes… it’s coming from Book Smugglers in December and you can pre-order it right now. I...
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Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
Did your brain go totally Roald Dahl when you saw the title? Mine did. Anyway, this novella was sent to me by the publisher, Tor.com, at no cost. It will be available for you to read from 13 March,...
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Time Was
This novella was sent to me by the publisher, Tor.com, at no cost. It’s available from April 24. I generally love Ian McDonald so when I found out Tor.com had bought one of his novellas I was pretty...
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The Descent of Monsters
I was sent this as a review copy by the publishers, Tor.com. It will be available on July 31. I could have had a review copy of Yang’s double novellas, The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of...
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Artificial Condition
aka Murderbot Diaries part 2. This novella was actually sent to me by the publisher um, quite a while ago. I read it then and I’ve talked about it on Galactic Suburbia but… my mind just hasn’t been in...
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Rogue Protocol
Yeh. So. Soon after I admitted I was slack about reviewing Artificial Condition, I received the ARC from Tor.com for Rogue Protocol… the third in the Murderbot series. So now I am being A BETTER...
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The Black God’s Drums
This novella was sent to me by the publisher, Tor.com, at no cost. It will be published on August 21. As an Australian, I’m sure I only picked up the surface detail of what Clark is doing here in his...
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Permafrost
Alastair Reynolds. Time travel. It’s just such a winning combination. And the thing is, this is the author who as far as I can remember refuses to use FTL in his stories. So for him to write a time...
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Murderbot #5
… whose proper name is Network Effect, but everyone just calls all these stories Murderbot, don’t they? In case you’re late to this party: in 2017, a novella called All Systems Red came out and a lot...
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The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday
I have a question. And that question is, what the heck was I doing this time last year that I didn’t rush out to get myself a copy of this novella? Because it really can’t have been that important. I...
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