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Tuesday 7 May 2024
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads) | review by Douglas J. Ogurek
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Young adult novel muddies message of acceptance with lackluster writing. Sixteen-year-old Yadriel, a trans gay boy (born female, identifies ...
Friday 3 May 2024
These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed (Solaris) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This review previously appeared in Interzone #290–291 (March-June 2021). These Lifeless Things is a novella published as part of the new ...
Tuesday 30 April 2024
Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #76: now out!
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free epub | free pdf | print UK | print USA | Kindle UK | Kindle US Welcome to Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #76 , edited by Stephe...
Monday 29 April 2024
Boy Kills World | review by Stephen Theaker
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Tortured by the memory of his mother and sister’s public execution by their city’s totalitarian rulers during the annual Culling, a boy (kno...
Friday 26 April 2024
The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon Publications) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This review originally appeared in Interzone #288, September–October 2020). Uiziya e Lali and the nameless man known as nen-sasaïr live in ...
Monday 22 April 2024
Stitches, by Hirokatsu Kihara and Junji Ito (VIZ Media) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This short, quick read collects nine short horror stories (the "stitches”), prose rather than comics, albeit with a bonus manga story. ...
Friday 19 April 2024
Under the Skin | review by Jacob Edwards
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This review originally appeared in TQF65 (December 2019). Out from under but still only skin-deep. Under the Skin features Scarlett Joha...
Tuesday 16 April 2024
47 by Walter Mosley (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) | review by Douglas J. Ogurek
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An alien among the alienated: young adult novel puts sci-fi twist on slave story to comment on freedom and equality. In Walter Mosley’s youn...
Monday 15 April 2024
Geethanjali Malli Vachindi | review by Stephen Theaker
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A much more stylish sequel to the 2014 Telugu film Geethanjali , this 15-rated horror comedy from first-time director Shiva Thurlapati intro...
Sunday 14 April 2024
Civil War | review by Stephen Theaker
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Kirsten Dunst plays Lee, a celebrated and determined photojournalist who hopes to get one last photograph of the US president before his ine...
Friday 12 April 2024
Firewalkers by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Solaris) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This review originally appeared in Interzone #288, September–October 2020). Another short book exploring the effects of global warming. In ...
Monday 8 April 2024
Twisted Metal, Series 1 | reviewed by Stephen Theaker
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A Peacock original in the United States, PlayStation adaptation Twisted Metal took quite a long time to reach the UK, where, ironically, it...
Friday 5 April 2024
Every Day, by Jesse Andrews (Orion Pictures et al.) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This review originally appeared in TQF65 (December 2019). “A” is a being of unknown origin who wakes up in a different human body every da...
Monday 1 April 2024
Femlandia, by Christina Dalcher (HQ) | review by Stephen Theaker
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In the very near future, the American economy collapses and society follows suit. Trying to keep her 16-year-old daughter Emma safe from mar...
Friday 29 March 2024
Earwig by B. Catling (Coronet) | review by Stephen Theaker
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This review originally appeared in Interzone #284, November–December 2019). The cover of this short novel has traps for the unwary reader. ...
Monday 25 March 2024
Immaculate | review by Stephen Theaker
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Sydney Sweeney, who also produces, plays Cecilia, a young American woman whose church has closed due to lack of attendance. Surviving a chil...
Friday 22 March 2024
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Season 1 | review by Stephen Theaker
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This review originally appeared in TQF73 (April 2023). Jennifer Walters is a lawyer who gains the power to transform into She-Hulk, thanks ...
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Positive: A Novel by David Wellington (Harper Voyager) | review by Douglas J. Ogurek
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More than a mark: lesson on compassionate leadership disguised as zombie story. During his westward journey, exile Finnegan (aka Finn) encou...
Monday 18 March 2024
Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes (Angry Robot) | review by Stephen Theaker
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Chesney Armstruther should be having the time of his life. The events of the two previous novels in the To Hell and Back trilogy ( The Damne...
Friday 15 March 2024
Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes | review by Stephen Theaker
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This review originally appeared in Interzone #284 (November–December 2019). Eye-catching cover art by Julie Dillon gives a good idea of wha...
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