Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
There are two things about this odd yet fascinating book worth mentioning straight away. The first is that, albeit featuring a seventeen-year old boy, it’s definitively not a YA story, under any standard. More: it is not the kind of book…
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This is a guest post by Chango (for contributing posts here have a look at this). The original version of these two book reviews, genre YA-fantasy, has been uploaded on Amazon Italy as a verified purchase. I’ve put them together…
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Vampires, we know, are a popular brand at least since John Polidori’s Lord Ruthven, allegedly inspired by Lord Byron during a fateful night at Villa Diodati I have already talked about. Joined a few decades later by a female vampire – Le Fanu’s Carmilla –…
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Approaching the second instalment of a story without reading what comes first is never recommended, for obvious reasons, and this advice is even more crucial when the genre is SFF. Chances are that important details about world-building have been given…
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Last weekend I decided I needed a few hours of distraction. Zombie stories always looked to me a good pick, because even when they are bad, they manage somehow to grab my attention (by craft or by gore). Having exhausted the Mira-verse, I started…
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When I asked the editor (Pan Macmillan) through Netgalley for a copy of Station Eleven – in exchange of a honest review, as usual – I did it because of its cover. Which says: “DAY ONE The Georgia Flu explodes over…
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It’s a given: on paper, this new book of Lauren Beukes is not one I would read. Mystery and thrillers I can do if they are historical – The Name of the Rose is an example of what I like…
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I have to admit the reason why I have requested the The Shadow Master, by Craig Cormick, in ARC is that I read so many things about it (namely: on Goodreads) that I got curious. A few of them are negative…
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Seven Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them, by the journalist, academic and veterinarian Mark Jerome Walters, is the updated version of his famous and well-regarded Six Modern Plagues and How We are Causing Them, published in 2004. To the…
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(Note: I received this novel as an ARC from Random House, through Netgalley.) Being a Bram Stocker Award nominee and portraying an adventure on the high seas were the reasons – equally important – I requested a copy of this…
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