Thursday, 12 November 2015

I've Moved!

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Hi all, just a quick note to say that I’m no longer going to be updating The Fictional Hangout at least on blogger. You can instead find a ...
Tuesday, 3 November 2015

The Hundred #1: The 100 by Kass Morgan (Hodder & Stoughton)

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No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now.                                                                 Ever since a d...
Friday, 30 October 2015

7 Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween

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I’m fairly new to the horror genre, having previously, before this October, shied away from it. However, with Halloween fast approaching ...
Thursday, 29 October 2015

Apocrypha: The Dying World #1: City of Burning Shadows by Barbara J. Webb

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Hiding from the past, from the horror of his life as a priest after the gods disappeared.  Hiding from his emotions, denying the night...
Wednesday, 21 October 2015

The Alchemy Wars #1: The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis (Orbit Books)

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My name is Jax. That is the name granted to be by my human masters. I am a clakker: a mechanical man, powered by alchemy. Armies ...
Monday, 19 October 2015

The Song of the Shattered Sands #1: Twelve Kings In Sharakhai by Bradley P. Beaulieu (Gollancz)

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In the cramped west end of Sharakhai, the Amber Jewel of the Desert, Çeda fights in the pits to scrape a living. She, like so many in ...
Sunday, 11 October 2015

MINI-REVIEW: Slow Bullets by Alastair Reynolds (Tachyon Publications)

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I share some brief opinions on  Slow Bullets, a short story   by science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds,  published by Tachyon Publicatio...