Monthly Archives: October 2019

Filler content with five for the price of one

A review that originally appeared in Zest #4 back in 1998:- EDGE OF LIGHT Author: Robert Silverberg Publisher: Voyager Price: £9.99 Paperback (980pp) Silverberg’s career spans over forty years, during which time he has produced an enormous body of work and been … Continue reading

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Filler content with alternative history

A review that originally appeared in Sol #30 back in 1998:- Milton in America by Peter Ackroyd. Published by Vintage. ‘B’ format paperback. 277pp. £6.99. Biographer of Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Blake, winner of the Somerset Maugham award and … Continue reading

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Filler content with a long sun

A review that originally appeared in The Zone #5 back in 1997:- EXODUS FROM THE LONG SUN Gene Wolfe Hodder & Stoughton hardcover £16.99 In the years since publication of his landmark ‘New Sun’ tetralogy, Gene Wolfe has written books that have … Continue reading

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Filler content with virtual light

A review that originally appeared back in 1997 in #8 of a magazine called Maelstrom:- Virtual Light by William Gibson. Published by Penguin. Paperback, 296pp, £9.99. It is 1995 as I write this review and Cyberpunk, which only a short … Continue reading

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Filler content with a river between worlds

A review that originally appeared in Maelstrom #7 back in 1995:- Riverrun by S. P. Somtow. Published by Orbit. Paperback, 257pp, £4.99. Born in Bangkok, educated at Eton and Cambridge, now a resident of California, S. P. Somtow comes from a cosmopolitan … Continue reading

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