A review by Nalini Haynes Those of you who came in late may not have heard of Pan’s Labyrinth, the Del Toro movie about a …
Speculative fiction
Andrew Skinner: Our Children Will Be Strange
Editor’s Note This is a guest blog by author Andrew Skinner. Andrew grew up in South Africa’s coal-mining heartland, amidst orange dust and giant machinery. …
Eyes of Tamburah by Maria V Snyder
A review by Nalini Haynes Shyla is ‘sun-kissed’, born with brown skin but blonde hair, so her parents left her to die in the desert. …
This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
A review by Nalini Haynes Red is a super-human woman wandering the highways and byways of space, time and quantum universes. Her job is tweaking …
Daughter Of Bad Times by Rohan Wilson
A review by Nalini Haynes Yamaan is a refugee in a migrant detention centre on Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania. This centre is a combination of Australia’s …
Zombies vs Unicorns edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier
A review by Nalini Haynes Zombies vs Unicorns is an anthology of short stories about — you guessed it — zombies and unicorns. Black and …
Mindcull by K H Canobi
A review by Nalini Haynes Mindcull is launching on 30 May 2019 at Robinson’s Bookshop in Melbourne! Eila is invited to a Big Brother House …
Time and Time Again by Ben Elton
A review by Nalini Haynes Hugh Stanton travels back in time to 1914 to change the twentieth century so it doesn’t end up in the …
Star Trek TNG s01e05: Where No One Has Gone Before
A review by Nalini Haynes Spoilers, Sweetie Kosinski (Stanley Kamel) is an arrogant engineer hurtled into the Admiralty’s good books when his gobbledygook engineering formula …
Star Trek TNG s01e04: The Last Outpost
A review by Nalini Haynes The USS Enterprise pursues what they suspect is a Ferengi ship. The Ferengi are little more than rumours to Federation …
Vox by Christina Dalcher
A review by Nalini Haynes Jean McClellan is a wife and mother, removed from the workforce by white male supremacists who’ve decided the way to …
Pirate Songs in the Accessing the Future anthology
A review by Nalini Haynes I began reading the Accessing the Future anthology (edited by Kathryn Allan and Djibril al-Ayad) at the beginning because that seemed to …
Adam Richard: There is only Zuul
Adam Richard is a comedian, writer, radio presenter and media personality. He’s involved in everything from musical quiz show Spicks and Specks to sci fi …
Persepolis Rising by James S A Corey
A review by Nalini Haynes Persepolis Rising is the 7th book in The Expanse novel series that is entwined with 6 ‘short fictions’ located as …
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
A review by Nalini Haynes Lila Norcross is the sheriff of a small town in Midwest America, struggling to hold it together after learning that …