Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

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Every ten years, a local wizard, Dragon, takes a seventeen-year-old girl (the most special girl from that age class), and keeps her for ten...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Astounding Science Fiction, August 1958

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A serial takes a lot of space, and there is room for only three stories. They've Been Working On ... • shortstory by Anton Lee Baker ...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth) by N. K. Jemisin

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This is the second Hugo nominee I have read this year. The book takes place (at least apparently) in fairly far-in-the-future Earth, where...
Thursday, June 2, 2016

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

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This is the first of the Hugo nominees I have read this year. It is the concluding part of the trilogy, of which the former parts have also...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2016

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A below-average issue, some of the stories have too little background. The Journeyman: In the Great North Wood • [Journeyman] • novella ...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Reijo Mäki: Tulivuori

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Vares, a private detective with healty interest for booze and women visit the Canary Islands. His former girlfriend has been murdered and ...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

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An inn in a small village has had a new keeper for a while. He seems somewhat strange, a detached but friendly man. He seems to know a lot ...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Seppo Jokinen: Koskinen ja kreikkalainen kolmio

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Inspector Koskinen solves a crime while vacationing in Greece. He and his friend almost get arrested after they find a drowned woman. As th...