The Power by Naomi Alderman
First rec’d by Abigail Nussbaum – Strange Horizons When I first read about The Power I was both intrigued and a little put-off by the premise; women suddenly develop the ability...
24 September 2017
The Revenant dir. by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Inspired by the novel which was inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), a fur trapper who was attacked by a bear and left for dead in the wilderness...
1 February 2016
Black Wolves by Kate Elliott
book 1 in The Black Wolves trilogy. First up, the blurb-y bit, stolen from Goodreads because I cannot condense what this book is about any better than they did : An...
11 November 2015
The Just City by Jo Walton
ARC received via the publishers & netgalley. Apollo just cannot understand why Daphne chose to turn into a tree. It simply doesn’t make sense to him. The game is that nymphs...
10 January 2015
Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott
Crossroads #2 The blurb on the back cover of my edition of this book gives away a pretty big spoiler for book one. So does the first line of the book,...
7 January 2015
Strange Days dir. by Kathryn Bigelow
Part of my 2015 Sci-Fi Experience. Made in the mid-nineties this is a film set in the final few days of 1999. It’s a sort of a dystopian film in that...
1 January 2015
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