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#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week four

SciFiMonth Read-Along: Golden Witchbreed
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Christie S’aranth has survived assassins, dodged accusations of witchcraft and murder, and travelled from the Barrens to the Brown Tower. Now her time on Orthe is ending. Torn between her duty to the Dominion and her love of the Southland, she must decide where her loyalties lie…

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November 28, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week three

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Christie survived the Barrens and is reunited with her Orthean allies at the winter court in Peir-Dadeni. But while her enemies slide free of the claims against them, Christie once again finds herself accused of a terrible crime. Mistrustful, fearing for her life, she goes back on the run…

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November 21, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week two

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With Crown permission to tour the telestres, Christie settles in to Roehmonde to try and convince them of the benefits of off world contact. But Roehmonde has domestic problems that technology can’t solve, and it soon becomes clear that anything that promotes change poses a threat to stability…

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November 13, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

#SciFiMonth Read-along: Golden Witchbreed – week one

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You know I can’t resist a read-along. It was SciFiMonth that first lured me into one, and it’s a tradition I’m delighted to continue. This year, we’re reading Mary Gentle’s Golden Witchbreed, a classic of cut-throat politics and cultural tensions as a junior diplomat gets out of her depth on the dangerously compelling world of Orthe.

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November 6, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

SciFiMonth 2020: engage!

#SciFiMonth: 1-30 November 2020
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It’s that time! SciFiMonth, when we set off on our 30-day mission to explore strange new worlds and alternate dimensions; to seek out new books and unfamiliar media; to boldly geek out like… well, like we do every year, joyfully and without restraint. BRING IT.

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November 1, 2020 Giveaways, SciFiMonth, SciFiMonth 2020

SciFiMonth Classic Read-along: Golden Witchbreed

SciFiMonth Read-Along: Golden Witchbreed
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One of the joys of SciFiMonth is a big buddy read. For our classic read-along, I’d like to introduce you to Golden Witchbreed, an epic of knife-edge (and knifepoint) diplomacy, beguiling world-building and cultural tension as humanity tries to persuade the post-apocalyptic world of Orthe to open its doors to the galaxy.

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September 27, 2020 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2020

The Sparrow Read-along: week four

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Better late than never, I’m tackling the final week of The Sparrow read-along. When the wheels come off on Rakhat, they take everyone out. At last we know exactly what happened – but how do we feel about it?

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December 11, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

The Sparrow Read-along: week three

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On Rakhat, Emilio dances God, transported by the beauty of the alien world and the challenge of learning to communicate with the Runa. On Earth, Vincenzo Giuliani is determined to save the priest who fell from grace.

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November 22, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

The Sparrow Read-along: week two

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Blessed with impressive funding and free from the concerns of global politics or corporate profit, a mission to another planet becomes far more feasible. But the Jesuits believe they have another advantage in their corner: Deus vult.

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November 13, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

The Sparrow Read-along: week one

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30 years ago, the Society of Jesus sent a ship to Alpha Centauri to make first contact with alien singers. Only one man survived, rescued and returned to Earth a physical and emotional wreck amidst rumours of murder and sin. But what really happened to Father Emilio Sandoz on Rakhat?

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November 6, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

SciFiMonth Classic Read-along: The Sparrow

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When SETI decode a mysterious signal to hear gorgeous singing, the world’s governments bicker over how to respond. The Jesuits don’t hesitate. They have the means and the will to build a spacecraft and send a team to make contact. After all, surely only children of God could make such beautiful music… right?

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October 29, 2019 Read-Alongs, SciFiMonth 2019

There’s always room for one more… Alien movie (apparently)

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2104. The colony ship Covenant is headed for Origae-6 with 2000 colonists, 1100 embryos and 15 crew aboard. After a freak accident, the crew intercept a mysterious signal from a supposedly uninhabited – but temptingly habitable – planet. They turn aside from their course to investigate. What can possibly go wrong?

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November 14, 2017 Reviews
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