Tag: reviews
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Review: 6 speculative stories are a ‘Hot Mess’
Hot Mess showcases six speculative stories on climate change’s impact, blending dystopia, satire, and emotional narratives to explore adaptation.
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Review: Water’s Edge is a plausible YA climate yarn
Rachel Meehan’s novel Water’s Edge transforms abstract climate change concepts into relatable narratives, depicting its profound effects on human relationships and communities.
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Review: Paulette Jiles’ Lighthouse Island
Lighthouse Island explores Nadia’s dystopian survival journey, evolving from a lackluster start to a rewarding and atmospheric conclusion.
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Review: The utopian World We Made. Maybe.
Current artistic visions lean toward dystopia, reflecting societal pessimism about issues like climate change, contrasting with past optimistic portrayals. Porritt’s The World We Made offers a hopeful path forward.
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Review: Julian Stockwin’s ‘Conquest’ takes the reader to colonial Africa
Julian Stockwin’s ‘Conquest’, another in the Thomas Kydd series, takes on Great Britain’s role in the struggle by European countries to control Africa. Dramatic retellings of the struggle between Great Britain and France under Napoleon often end with Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar, as if everything naval in the Napoleonic Wars that happened after the great…
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Review: Julian Stockwin’s ‘Victory’ compares well to Patrick O’Brian
Julian Stockwin’s “Victory” offers an engaging introduction to Thomas Kydd’s adventures, though the hero lacks presence during key battle scenes.