A review by Nalini Haynes Earth Flight is the final book in the Earth Girl trilogy (Earth Girl and Earth Star) about Jarrah Morrath, a …
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Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne
A review by CJ Dee Trigger warnings: rape and child molestation. The Girl in the Road features two the lives of two women, Meena and …
PAX Australia: Actually it’s about ethnics in games journalism
I mis-read the title. I thought this panel was about ETHICS in games journalism and expected a panel about GamerGate and real ethics. This panel …
“Diversity in YA” with Fiona Wood, Michael Pryor and Meg Mundell
For too long, straight white non-disabled privileged characters have dominated literature. Fiona Wood, Michael Pryor and Meg Mundell have each written diverse characters: ethnic diversity, characters …
Cloudwish by Fiona Wood
A review by Nalini Haynes Diversity in YA is not unheard of but nor is it as common as you’d expect in our diverse society. …
Sense8 season 1
A review by Nalini Haynes Eight people around the world discover they’re mentally linked and they have been since birth but they’ve just discovered it. …
Time Salvager by Wesley Chu
A review by Nalini Haynes James Griffin-Mars is a Chronoman, a time salvager who retrieves goods, particularly energy sources, to stave off the destruction of …
Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N K Jemisin
Inheritance Trilogy Book 1 A review by Nalini Haynes. Yeine Darr is the daughter of an exiled ruling family member and the chief of a …
Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
A review by Nalini Haynes Laia was born into the Scholar caste, a downtrodden caste suffering random and not-so-random searches, torture and death at the …
Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh
A review by Evie Kendal Heart of Obsidian is the twelfth book in Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling series. The novel opens with the incredibly powerful Cardinal …
Flash Fiction Authors offending Australian Aborigines
I don’t normally trawl the interwebs for short fiction because publishers and authors send Dark Matter more than sufficient items for review. However, Dr Sean …
“Queers Destroy Science Fiction” with Seanan McGuire and Mark Oshiro
The Queers Destroy Science Fiction edition of Lightspeed Magazine is currently open on Kickstarter for financial contributions. Contributions’ terms and conditions are also listed on the kickstarter …
Tangle of Need (Psy-Changeling series book 11) by Nalini Singh
A review by Evie Kendal ISBN: 9780575100169 Publisher: Gollancz Format: paperback, 432 pages Tangle of Need focuses on the SnowDancer wolf-changeling pack and its two new additions: lone …
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
A review by Nalini Haynes Darcy wrote a novel, Afterworlds, for NaNoWriMo. Among the thousands of monkeys hammering away at typewriters for the month of …
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
A review by Nalini Haynes Director: Isao Takahata Writers: Isao Takahata(story & screenplay), Riko Sakaguchi (screenplay), Mike Jones (English version screenplay) Stars: Aki Asakura, Yukiji Asaoka Running time: 137 minutes Rating: …