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Book Review: The Price of Redemption by Shawn Carpenter
If you liked Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series but wanted more magic, this is the book for you. That pretty much sums up the entire review, honestly, although this is very much a work of nautical fiction. While the details and jargon are not as complex as Patrick O’Brian’s work, there’s still to get lost in….
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Worship the Image: Woodrow Bell’s New Cyberpunk Novel
(I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for honest feedback) I freely admit that I am not usually a cyberpunk fan. In the past, it all felt dated to me, as if the authors were so enamored with the ’80s and ’90s style that they never updated it. Worship the Image did not have…
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Dieselpunk, part 2: Are ya feeling punky, punk?
In the last post, I discussed what makes something a genre or not, relying on the fuzzy set theory of fantasy and applying it to the three main punk genres- cyberpunk, steampunk, and dieselpunk. Today, we’re looking at the two main thematic concepts I see across all of these genres- technology and society, and the…