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REVIEW: Slip Point by Karalynn Lee
From childhood, Shay had one dream–to join the Space Corps with her best friend and sweetheart, Jayce. When the Space Corps reveals that the father she thought was dead is actually an infamous pirate...
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S&S Launching New SF Imprint, Simon451 – Senior Editor Sarah Knight is heading the new imprint, which will be digital first, even though the publisher says they will deal in both print and digital....
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REVIEW: The Masked Songbird by Emmie Mears
Mildly hapless Edinburgh accountant Gwenllian Maule is surviving. She’s got a boyfriend, a rescued pet bird and a roommate to share rent. Gwen’s biggest challenges: stretching her last twenty bucks...
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REVIEW: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Dear Liu Cixin, Your bestselling science fiction novel translated from Chinese to English by author Ken Liu, The Three Body Problem, caught my attention shortly after its publication in the US last...
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REVIEW: Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
The following review contains some spoilers. — Janine Dear Ms. Leckie, I loved your debut, Ancillary Justice, and keenly anticipated its sequel. Ancillary Sword showed many of the same strengths and I...
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REVIEW: Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
To save his daughter, he’ll go anywhere—and any-when… Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter,...
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What Janine is Reading (and Seeing in the Theater) in Early 2017
I think it was Lois McMaster Bujold who said that “if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, F&SF are fantasies of political agency.” That may partly explain why...
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Janine’s Best of 2020
I spent much of 2020 grateful to books and authors for giving me a way to visit other times and places while stuck at home because of Covid. Below, listed in alphabetical order by author, are my top...
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REVIEW: The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
Dear Charlie Jane Anders, This book takes place on a January, a tidally locked planet, meaning that one side of the planet always faces the sun and on the other side it’s always dark. In the small...
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JOINT REVIEW: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Janine: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir’s latest science fiction novel, opens when astronaut Ryland Grace wakes up aboard a spaceship named the Hail Mary with no memory of how he got there. He realizes...
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