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The Exploding Spaceship Reviews Steeplejack, Return of Souls, Spells of Blood and Kin, and Pride's Spell
Posted on 2016-06-22 at 03:49 by angelablackwell
Review of Steeplejack by A.J. Hartley (Tor Teen, June 14, 2016)
Steeplejack is set in the ethnically diverse industrial capital of a land resembling Victorian South Africa. The viewpoint character is Anglet Sutonga, a young woman who repairs steeples. The death of a fellow steeplejack soon sends her on an investigation to discover what happened to him. His death is just a small part of a much larger scheme threading through the city across class and racial barriers.
Bar-Selehm is a city of towers and
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Paul Kincaid’s From the Other Side, June 2014: One Three One, Barricade, the Gemmell Awards, and more
Posted on 2014-07-03 at 17:49 by montsamu
From the Other Side, June 2014
By Paul Kincaid
Okay, we have to accept that, however much we might value its qualities, science fiction can sometimes serve as a repository for the mad, the bizarre, the plain bonkers. Which may be why we get One Three One: A Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel by Julian Cope (Faber). Cope is, of course, the former lead singer of The Teardrop Explodes who has also written couple of well-received books on ancient megaliths, and some eclectic works on obscure rock
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