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Posted on April 2, 2016

Review of “The Terrible Two”, Mac Barnett and Jory John, Childrens Books Ireland December 2015

This review was to a large degree dictated by my seven year old daughter. I have always thought that grown up reviewers (especially film reviewers who evidently would be preferred to…

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Posted on March 23, 2016March 29, 2016

Filter It. Reviews of “Take Me To The Source” by Rupert Wright and “The Blue Death” by Robert D Morris, TLS, 17/10/08

  I previously posted my submitted text of this reviews but, thanks again to Maren Meinhardt, I am herein re-posting the actual published text.   FILTER IT Rupert Wright TAKE ME TO…

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Posted on March 14, 2016

Review of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, TLS, 12/12/08

I had a fruitful correspondence with Neil Pemberton after this was published on urban noise in the Victorian era, which was supposed to link into my magnum opus on the…

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Posted on February 3, 2016February 4, 2016

Music For Another World. Ed. Mark Harding. SF Site review, 2011

This is a rather grumpy review. I found the writing in this anthology by and large ponderous and forced, too self-consciously “literary.” I think that is pretty clear from the…

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Posted on January 2, 2016January 9, 2016

“The Gap in The Curtain”, John Buchan

  Inspired by this post on The Dabbler , I purchased the slightly incongruously named Sir Edward Leithen Megapack a while back. I was using the comments section of the same Dabbler post to update an…

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Posted on December 7, 2015

Edge. Thomas Blackthorne. Sf Site. 2010.

My recent disinterrment of some of my posts on OneTouchFootball.com included this nil thread about blades, which included a now-dead link to a site on all things blade. Revisiting SF Site reviews, I find…

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Posted on December 7, 2015

Review of “The Extra”, Michael Shea, SF Site 2010

I began writing for SF site to try and shake up some of my writing and reading choices. I recall this review as one where I felt I found my…

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Posted on December 6, 2015December 6, 2015

Review of “Pink Noise”, Leonid Korogoski, SF Site, 2011

This was a stimulating read. To a certain degree, something not unlike what I internally call The Oxford Murders Effect was at play in this review – the context of when I read…

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