Tag: mira grant
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Top Ten Tuesday (September 1) – Top Ten Characters you just didn’t click with
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish, where each week bloggers are given a new Top Ten…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Parasite by Mira Grant
Parasite (2013) by Mira Grant/ Seanan McGuire is an interesting blend of techno-thriller, horror and SF. It features a near-future humanity made virtually disease-free…
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A busy year for bacteria
This is definitively the year of bacteria in terms of scientific discovery and ground-breaking experiments. It was only a few months ago that a new strand…
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Loncon3 – the Convention and the Hugo Awards
A WorldCon – i.e., the annual SF Word Convention – is an amazing event, culminating in the Hugo Awards night but also featuring a…
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XXI CENTURY SCI-FI – Countdown by Mira Grant
Countdown (2011) by Mira Grant / Seanan McGuire is a novella part of the Newsflesh trilogy and the prequel of the famous novel Feed,…
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Voting for Hugo Awards 2014
There are many great things about attending Sci-Fi Worldcons, and not just when they are organised in cities like London. One of them is…
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Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire
It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I…
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Zombies, Reloaded – The (new) zombie wave / 1
If you have the impression that the world is about to be gobbled up raw in a frenzy of bleeding body parts by hordes…