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Machine

★★★★★ Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk goodreads Jennifer Pelland’s website Jennifer Pelland’s Captive Girl (see review), is a slightly disturbing love story between a woman so integrated with machinery that she is effectively disabled and the scientist who needs her to be that … Continue reading

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Codename: Night Witch (The Girls From Alcyone)

★★★★★ Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk goodreads Cary Caffrey’s blog Cary Caffrey’s Codename: Night Witch, published 2015, continues the very enjoyable space opera that started with The Girls From Alcyone and continued with The Machines of Bellatrix. Arguably, Codename: Night Witch, is the … Continue reading

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Dressed in tender flesh

My sister was telling me about a poet she listened to at a live event. The poet said she would speed-read a book and pick out words at random, and then work the words into a poem. I don’t wish … Continue reading

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Skirting the Truth with Alina X

With Alina X, it’s difficult to know where reality stops and imagination starts. Perhaps she’s only a university researcher with an overactive imagination and a risqué dress sense, but it’s not difficult to believe that she’s a sexual adventuress, or … Continue reading

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The Machines of Bellatrix (The Girls From Alcyone)

★★★★☆ Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk goodreads Cary Caffrey’s blog Cary Caffrey’s The Machines of Bellatrix, published 2013, continues the very enjoyable space opera that started with The Girls From Alcyone. Like the first book, this is an addictive adventure full of space … Continue reading

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kiss her and sparks fly

Another collection of haiku twittering from @AlinaMeridon… I have lost a word It used to be in this line Has anyone seen it? swift trusty pencil pen mightier than the sword draughtsman versus scribe treacherous subtext drains through the filter … Continue reading

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Cybersex with Alina X

My friend Alina, who I once accused of being imaginary (and who refuses to provide conclusive evidence to the contrary), has forayed into erotic science fiction for her second publication. ‘It started out as a bit of a sexual fantasy,’ … Continue reading

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Captive Girl

★★★★★ Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk goodreads Jennifer Pelland’s website Jennifer Pelland’s Captive Girl, published 2012, is an intriguing science fiction novelette with themes of love and sacrifice. It is a short read, and free, and has left me wanting to read her … Continue reading

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The Girls From Alcyone

Cary Caffrey’s The Girls From Alcyone, published 2011, is a very enjoyable space opera with space battles, combat between mechanically enhanced humans, space elevators, corporation-controlled wormholes, and so on. There are some blatant political messages too about the inhuman greed … Continue reading

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The Starry Mind of Barbara G. Tarn

Last week I posted a review of Niall Teasdale’s Steel Beneath the Skin with the bisexy cyborg Aneka Jansen. This week I encountered another bisexy cyborg in Barbara G. Tarn’s Women – which has the most fantastic cover ever! Er, … Continue reading

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