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People with Holes

by J. G. Stinson

In Heather Fowler’s second short fiction collection, People With Holes, the nexus of each story is a hole of some sort, whether literal or figurative. Mixing erotica and magical realism in several of the stories, Fowler explores the... Read More

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Jigsaw Soul

by J. G. Stinson

Scott Middlemist’s debut novel follows Arthur Logan, an Iraq War veteran whose experiences in that war have shoved him out of sanity and into PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder); every hour, it seems, is weighted with war memories so... Read More

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The Brazen Serpent Chronicles

by J. G. Stinson

In this second book of the fantasy series "The Brazen Serpent Chronicles", R. Dennis Baird has created a landscape deeply rooted in the Western European fantasy tradition and added some tweaks to the standard recipe. Widseth is a young... Read More

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Eirelan

by J. G. Stinson

Now that “doorstop” books are nearly commonplace, thanks to J. K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Susanna Clarke, and others, novels of this size are less likely to give potential readers pause. Liam O’Shiel presents readers with a... Read More

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Lords of Dyscrasia

by J. G. Stinson

Diary, I tallied the Dissection Theater’s subjects again. So begins the debut novel of Massachusetts native and chemist-by-day Seth Lindberg. This decidedly dark fantasy is heavily influenced by Dante, Poe, Lovecraft, and a great love... Read More

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Chronicles of The Nassidesa

by J. G. Stinson

In Chronicles of the Nassidesa: Liadaya First on a Thousand Worlds, the titular character, Liadaya, is one of twenty-seven gods called the Nassidesa, the children of the original seven males and seven females created by a deity who is... Read More

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Chasing the Meridian

by J. G. Stinson

In the first of a projected trilogy, Donald W. Bacon introduces a science fiction tale that spans millennia but focuses its narrative on events in the previous two decades. Last survivor of an ancient alien race when our earth was young,... Read More

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The Marriage of Silence and Sin

by J. G. Stinson

Author Jacqueline M. Lyon has combined art therapy theory and the words of John Keats, William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, and others to create a contemporary mystery-thriller, a spellbinding journey of familial love... Read More

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