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Bite-size Reads: Opulent Syntax

Book cover: Opulent SyntaxIn 2022, I set myself the multi-year ‘challenge’ of reading the anthologies on my shelves. I’m starting my 2023 bite-size adventures with Opulent Syntax, Neon Hemlock’s latest anthology of speculative fiction – a gorgeous collection of tales by Irish writers.

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February 3, 2023 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Reads: This Dreaming Isle

Book cover: This Dreaming Isle - a figure walks along a shoreWelcome back to Spooktastic Bite-size Reads, where my 2022 challenge to read (some of) the amazing anthologies on my shelves embraces the darker side of fantasy. This week I’m completing my journey around This Dreaming Isle with uncanny tales inspired by British cities and coastline.

 

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October 25, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Reads: This Dreaming Isle

Book cover: This Dreaming Isle - a figure walks along a shoreWelcome to Spooktastic Reads! I’m kicking off 13 days of celebrating the darker side of fantasy with a return to Bite-size Reads, my 2022 challenge to read (some of) the amazing anthologies on my shelves. Having trotted the globe with Chinese SF and African horror, for Spooktastic Reads I’m staying on home shores with some uncanny British tales.

 

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October 19, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews, Spooktastic Reads

Bite-size Reads: African Monsters

Book cover: African Monsters, anthology edited by Jo Thomas and Margret HelgasdottirWelcome back to Bite-size Reads, where it’s my final round-up of the dark and haunting tales of African Monsters, edited by Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas.

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September 3, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Reads: African Monsters

Book cover: African Monsters, anthology edited by Jo Thomas and Margret HelgasdottirWelcome back to Bite-size Reads, where I’m currently enjoying tales collected by Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas. It’s time to be haunted and horrified by some more African Monsters…

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August 18, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Reads: African Monsters

Book cover: African Monsters, anthology edited by Jo Thomas and Margret HelgasdottirWelcome back to Bite-size Reads, my 2022 challenge to read (some of) the amazing anthologies on my shelves. It’s been a long while since Sinopticon, and today I’m on the trail of African Monsters – the second volume of the globe-trotting Fox Spirit Book of Monsters.

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August 12, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Reads: Sinopticon

Book cover: Sinopticon - Chinese SF stories translated by Xueting Christine NiWelcome back to Bite-size Reads, my 2022 challenge to read (some of) the amazing anthologies on my shelves. Today I’m looking at the final batch of stories from Sinopticon, a curated collection of Chinese SF translated and presented by Xueting Ni.

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February 10, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Reads: Sinopticon

Book cover: Sinopticon - Chinese SF stories translated by Xueting Christine NiWelcome back to Bite-size Reads, my 2022 challenge to read (some of) the amazing anthologies on my shelves. Today I’m looking at my second batch of stories from Sinopticon, a curated collection of Chinese SF translated and presented by Xueting Ni.

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January 30, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Reads: Sinopticon

Book cover: Sinopticon - Chinese SF stories translated by Xueting Christine NiWelcome to Bite-size Reads, my 2022 challenge to read (some of) the amazing anthologies on my shelves. I’ll be chiming in every couple of weeks with thoughts on the stories I’ve recently enjoyed – starting today with tales from Sinopticon, a curated collection of Chinese SF translated and presented by Xueting Ni.

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January 14, 2022 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Interview: Xueting Christine Ni on Chinese SF

Book cover: Sinopticon - Chinese SF stories translated by Xueting Christine NiWith Sinopticon, critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni has curated a unique exploration of China’s speculative fiction from the late 20th Century onwards. In advance of publication next week, she was kind enough to stop by for a chat about translation, curation and the Chinese science fiction scene.

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November 4, 2021 Interviews, SciFiMonth, SciFiMonth 2021

I’m Waiting For You

Book cover: I'm Waiting for You - Kim Bo-YoungKim Bo-Young is a respected SF author in her native South Korea. I’m Waiting For You marks the first time her work has appeared in English, collecting two pairs of connected short stories exploring love, sacrifice and identity.

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April 15, 2021 all systems read, Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

The Djinn Falls In Love

Book cover: The Djinn Falls in Love and other stories - ed. Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (white smoking text on dark background)When Allah created man out of clay, he created djinn out of fire. Ephemeral spirits that tempt us, trick us, and sometimes grant our wishes, these creatures of folklore take centre stage in excellent Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin’s anthology, The Djinn Falls in Love.

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May 6, 2017 Anthologies, Bite-size Books, Reviews

Bite-size Books: Welcome to the Medical Clinic…

Illustration by Reiko Murakami: A woman sits in a space jockey chair in a medical gown
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“You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look like miniature beetles.”

WHAT CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Caroline M Yoachim’s entertaining response wins a Nebula nomination.

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April 14, 2017 Bite-size Books, Reviews, Short stories

Bite-size books: Nine Duels

Banner: Tremontaine (cream text on a dull field, with an inset illustration of a man and a woman crossing swords)
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I’ve been missing my weekly dose of Tremontaine, so it was with mingled delight and horror that I recalled I hadn’t yet treated myself to Tessa Gratton’s prequel story Nine Duels. Welcome to the heartache of smoking hot swordsman Vincent Applethorpe’s foreign adventures.

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March 10, 2017 Bite-size Books, Reviews, Tremontaine

Space Opera Sunday: The State of the Art

Banner: Space opera Sunday (base image - Space by Codex41 @flickr)
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1970s Earth. The political situation is fraught, the music scene is humming, and out in space hangs the GCU Arbitrary and its motley crew of humans. Diziet Sma wants to make contact. Linter has gone native and is trying to escape the Arbitrary entirely. And Li wants to blow the place up…

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March 5, 2017 Bite-size Books, Reviews, Short stories

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