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Review of ‘Three Assassins’ by Kotaro Isaka

11/04/2022 nsford 2 Comments

A fast-paced thriller from the author of Bullet Train. It’s worth noting that although this English translation by Sam Malissa…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Kotaro Isaka, reviews, thrillers, translations

Review of ‘Of Ants and Dinosaurs’ by Cixin Liu

23/01/2022 nsford Leave a comment

An unusual science fiction novel, fun and thought-provoking. ‘It was an ordinary day in the Late Cretaceous.’ Then, two kinds…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, Cixin Liu, fiction, reviews, science fiction, translations

Review of ‘The Mad Women’s Ball’ by Victoria Mas

21/01/2022 nsford 6 Comments

A powerful piece of historical fiction set in the women’s mental hospital of Salpêtrière, Paris, in the 1880s. Sometimes I…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, historical fiction, reviews, translations, Victoria Mas

Review of ‘Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction’ translated and edited by Xueting Christine Ni

03/11/2021 nsford 2 Comments

An intriguing collection of 13 short stories which showcase modern Chinese science fiction. I liked how the chosen stories had…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, science fiction, short stories, translations

Review of ‘Earthlings’ by Sayaka Murata

07/10/2021 nsford 4 Comments

Disturbing, unpredictable and a hundred times weirder than Convenience Store Woman, this novel is not for the faint-hearted. I already…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, Sayaka Murata, translations

Review of ‘The Cabinet’ by Un-su Kim

03/10/2021 nsford Leave a comment

This is a bizarre, intriguing novel set in South Korea. Unpredictable, absurd, funny and horrifying, The Cabinet is definitely not…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reviews, translations, Un-su Kim

Review of ‘Bullet Train’ by Kotaro Isaka

28/03/2021 nsford 15 Comments

This is one of the most addictive thrillers I’ve ever read. It has a smart, cinematic style. While I was…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, Kotaro Isaka, reviews, thrillers, translations

Review of ‘Solaris’ by Stanisław Lem

05/03/2021 nsford 6 Comments

This book is a famous science fiction classic. I felt like I was maybe not clever enough to understand it.…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, reading, reviews, science fiction, Stanisław Lem, translations

Review of ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ by Wu Cheng’en

03/02/2021 nsford 9 Comments

I knew nothing about this 16th century Chinese classic before reading, so it was quite an adventure for me. A…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, fiction, reviews, translations, Wu Cheng'en

Review of ‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin

15/09/2020 nsford 8 Comments

Before Nineteen Eighty-Four, before Brave New World, there was We, one of the first dystopian science fiction novels. It was…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, dystopias, fiction, reviews, translations, Yevgeny Zamyatin

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