DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Best of 2019: Science fiction and fantasy
FRESH APPROACH: Louis Greenberg
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
IN THE near future our world collectively turns its back on intrusive digital technology in Green Valley by Louis Greenberg (Titan).
Most people are no longer content to have their lives run by connected devices which are themselves run by unaccountable corporations. The surveillance state of the early 21st century is dead and buried — or, at least, it's buried.
There's just one quarantined enclave where people still insist on living the cyberspace way — Green Valley. That's where police consultant Lucie's niece lives with her family and that's where the girl has gone missing. Lucie's going to have to go in there to find her and hope she can get out again.
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