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Book Reviews: August 2018

This month, LaShawn M. Wanak reviews a pair of novellas by Martha Wells: The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition and The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol. She also takes a look at the re-release of Tade Thompson’s novel Rosewater and new collection of short fiction by Nick Mamatas: The People’s Republic of Everything.

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Book Reviews: July 2018

This month, reviewer Chris Kluwe takes a look at European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, by Theodora Goss, The Mere Wife, by Maria Dahvana Headley, and Planetside, by Michael Mammay.

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Book Reviews: June 2018

This month, Arley Sorg reviews The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang, Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman, and Ruth Joffre’s debut collection Night Beast.

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Book Reviews: May 2018

This month LaShawn M. Wanak reviews Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, Armistice by Lara Elena Donnelly, and I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land by Connie Willis.

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Book Reviews: April 2018

This month Christie Yant reviews fiction with an animal theme: Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, by John Crowley, and Blackfish City, by Sam J. Miller.

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Book Reviews: March 2018

This month, Arley Sorg reviews Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, by Kelly Robson, and Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, by Vandana Singh.

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Book Reviews: February 2018

This month, LaShawn M. Wanak reviews the short story collection Starlings by Jo Walton, the novella collection The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell, and the novel The Fairies of Sadieville by Alex Bledsoe.

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Book Reviews: January 2018

This month Christie Yant reviews new novellas from Tor.com, including Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire, Mandelbrot the Magnificent, by Liz Ziemskaand, and The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson.

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Book Reviews: December 2017

This month, Amal El-Mohtar reviews the conclusion of Fran Wilde’s Bone Universe trilogy, Horizon. She also takes a look at the new novella The Only Harmless Great Thing, by Brooke Bolander.

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Book Reviews: November 2017

This month, LaShawn Wanak reviews The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen, The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle, and Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines.

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