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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Monday, 29 June 2015. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. To Say Nothing of the Dog. Is the second book in a series. It's sort of a sequel, but each book is a standalone novel. There are also huge differences in the general mood of the books. Some characters from Doomsday Book. Reappear. Most don't. However, things quickly stabilise and take a completely different direction&#...
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): July 2015
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Sunday, 26 July 2015. The Little Book of Cardiff by David Collins and Gareth Bennett. While preparing a great visitors' guide to Cardiff. Broadly speaking, the book delivers on those promises. It's excellent at the ancient history of Cardiff, and telling the highlights of the distant past. Things do get a bit bogged down later on: the sports section is almost entirely pointle...In th...
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Wednesday, 17 December 2014. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman. Starts out with aplomb. Irene, our protagonist, is an Undercover Librarian. Let’s put it like this: if you like Paul Magrs’ Brenda and Effie. Series, or Indiana Jones, or Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant. Novels, or Inkheart. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cardiff Speculative Fiction Book Club. Blog - Tor Books.
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): The Incorruptibles by John Hornor Jacobs
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Thursday, 28 August 2014. The Incorruptibles by John Hornor Jacobs. Mixes a huge variety of aesthetics:. Steampunk (think Jules Verne and HG Wells inspired retro scifi). Riverboat Journey in the US (think Huck Finn). Demons and Possession Horror. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Cardiff Speculative Fiction Book Club. Cardiff Speculative Fiction Book Club. Blog - Tor Books. Desert ...
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Saturday, 2 May 2015. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Is a book about time travel. It's not time travel as we know it from the movies: no time travelling cops and robbers, no cyborgs or DeLoreans, no secret organisations. What could possibly go wrong. ;-). Doomsday Book excels at connecting the reader with the characters. It is written with empathy and love for the people in this...
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): April 2015
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Wednesday, 22 April 2015. Blackout by Mira Grant. Left off. It's the third novel in the Newsflesh Trilogy / universe. There are other stories out there - novellas, and there is a new novel in the works). And I'm glad to say, it's as good as the first. Instead, and then buy that book and become addicted. I'll just say that the conclusion will not let you down. Ahem George is back!
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): May 2015
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Monday, 25 May 2015. The Martian by Andy Weir. Was recommended to me by Sarah. During the last meeting of the Cardiff Scifi and Fantasy Book Club. I'm hugely grateful for the recommendation - it was a superb read! The book came up because we were discussing Ringworld. And hard / credible SF. The Martian was given ass an example of current / recent hard SF. That said, if you're after ...
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): Kristo by Sam Roads & Alex Sheikman
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Sunday, 28 June 2015. Kristo by Sam Roads and Alex Sheikman. Is a beautifully illustrated, dark graphic novel, retelling the tale of the Count of Monte Cristo and setting it in Soviet Russia. With a fairly simple premise - what if the father of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,. And what if, at one point, he got out. It surprised me that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had only a very limited appearanc...
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Bastian's Book Reviews (& Politics): The Little Book of Cardiff by David Collins & Gareth Bennett
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Bastians Book Reviews (& Politics). Speculative fiction book reviews. Political musings and rants. Cardiff SF/F Book Club. Sunday, 26 July 2015. The Little Book of Cardiff by David Collins and Gareth Bennett. While preparing a great visitors' guide to Cardiff. Broadly speaking, the book delivers on those promises. It's excellent at the ancient history of Cardiff, and telling the highlights of the distant past. Things do get a bit bogged down later on: the sports section is almost entirely pointle...In th...
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Rhaglenni a Phrosiectau - Dolen Cymru Lesotho
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