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Jo Graham’s A Blackened Mirror
Crossposted from Patreon and Substack. Jo Graham, A Blackened Mirror. Cambridge MA: Candlemark & Gleam. 2023. Cover art for A Blackened Mirror Blackwell’s affiliate link. I’ve really enjoyed...
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Sword and sorcery fun: Daniel M. Ford’s THE WARDEN
Cover art for Daniel M. Ford’s The Warden Daniel M. Ford, The Warden. New York: Tor Books. 2023. Recent trends in SFF publishing have not provided a surfeit of examples of one of my favourite...
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David Nirenberg, COMMUNITIES OF VIOLENCE: a thought-provoking work of history
David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages – Updated Edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2015. First edition published 1996. Cover image for...
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Forbidden Knowledge by Hannah Marcus: censorship and medicine 1500s/1600s Italy
Hannah Marcus, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science and Censorship in Early Modern Italy. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 2020. Cover of Forbidden Knowledge. Blackwell’s affiliate link....
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Reviews at Tor.com and Locus
There never seems to be enough time. But while I’m bemoaning entropy, here are some reviews I wrote elsewhere: Hannah Kaner’s debut Godkiller is unexpectedly excellent: First published in the UK in...
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Seashaken Houses by Tom Nancollas: lighting the reefs of the sea
Tom Nancollas, Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet. London: Penguin. 2019. (2018.) Blackwell’s affiliate link. Covert art for Seashaken Houses: a drawing of Fastnet Rock...
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61. A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford, and some administrative updates
In this post: a review of A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford; moving off Substack to WordPress; ongoing efforts to Plan What I’m Talking About. Cover art for A River of Golden Bones A.K. Mulford,...
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62. I’m eager for other people to read Meredith Mooring’s Redsight
Perhaps one of them will be able to explain to me what it is I just read. But first! If you enjoy these posts and want to keep seeing more of them, consider subscribing via Patreon or as a free (or...
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65. Helen Hardacre’s Shinto: A History
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66. The Great Leveller: Violence and the History of Inequality by Walter...
Does violence really play an equalising role in the economic history of humanity? Walter Scheidel argues that it does. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if...
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