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BSFA Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Book Cover for: The Open Door: A Ghost Story for Christmas, Margaret Oliphant

The Open Door: A Ghost Story for Christmas

Margaret Oliphant
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Check out Andy Sawyer's review of The Open Door and Other Stories of the Seen & Unseen by Margaret Oliphant! "...Oliphant’s prolixity and sentimentality may at times obscure her humour and sometimes chilling analysis..." https://t.co/TJAwel2K30 https://t.co/nJdqaYloh1

Paperback, 2020

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Resilient, Allen Stroud

Resilient

Allen Stroud
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🚀 Check out Dev Agarwal's review of Resilient by Allen Stroud! "Fearless centred around life onboard the Search and Rescue spaceship Khidr. Its sequel pours kinetic energy into the opening..." https://t.co/sKXMIlPl4H https://t.co/qCO5c8vQo1

Hardcover, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Fractured Infinity, Nathan Tavares

A Fractured Infinity

Nathan Tavares
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🚀 Check out Stuart Carter's review of Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares! "What would you do if you had an evil other-dimensional twin? Worse, what if that same twin was the genius who first discovered how to skip between parallel worlds..?" https://t.co/QE5IutACG1 https://t.co/oOmLmcdCSy

Paperback, 2022

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir
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“…along come the last few pages and we learn Weir has been keeping the real zingers up his sleeve, ready to play at exactly the right moment...” Read Ben Jeapes’ full review of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary! https://bsfa.co.uk/BSFA-Review-Project-Hail-Mary https://t.co/6huomCWbGw

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Momenticon, Andrew Caldecott

Momenticon

Andrew Caldecott
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🚀 Check out Susan Peak's review of Momenticon by Andrew Caldecott: "This book, a mixture of historical fiction (1558) and a modern setting (Rotherweird village), depicted twelve strangely gifted children and the isolated place in which they lived." https://t.co/Hfc6CbEIxS https://t.co/VxSWkbIeGj

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas

Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

Sheree Renée Thomas
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BEST ARTWORK - Alyssa Winans, Cover of The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard, Gollancz - Manzi Jackson, Cover of Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Macmillan - Chris Baker, Cover of Shoreline of Infinity 32, Shoreline of Infinity 👇

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Book Cover for: Inhibitor Phase, Alastair Reynolds

Inhibitor Phase

Alastair Reynolds
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Check out Ben Jeapes' review of Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds! "After finishing the novel, I realised there was one scene that stood out. It could have been omitted at no expense to the story, but it is the defining moment of the book’s values..." https://t.co/2MZBBvgvKX https://t.co/vPYtq46JmZ

Paperback, 2021

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Warning Light Calling, Peter Westergaard

Warning Light Calling

Peter Westergaard
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🚀 Check out Susan Peak's review of Warning Light Calling by Peter Graarup Westergaard! "Westergraad’s narrative poem is described as an SF novella in verse. I found it to be less clear-cut than that, and perhaps more interesting..." https://t.co/LmXUKsLHDf https://t.co/vwzrH4Bcgh

Paperback, 2021

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Watch Dogs Legion: Daybreak Legacy, Stewart Hotston

Watch Dogs Legion: Daybreak Legacy

Stewart Hotston
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🚀 This Sunday at 2pm, Stewart Hotston will take a seat alongside Stark Holborn and our Chair, Allen Stroud, in a discussion about current Science Fiction. Author of Stars and Stripes, Daybreak Legacy, The Entropy of Loss, and more. Make sure you tune in! https://t.co/CfshV6g0y6 https://t.co/gG5ZSdWzhi

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Book Cover for: Something More Than Night, Kim Newman

Something More Than Night

Kim Newman
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🚀 Check out Estelle Roberts' review of Something More Than Night by Kim Newman! "Set in a gloriously insane late 1930’s Los Angeles, this latest addition to the Newmanverse is an extremely entertaining horror/noir piece of fiction..." https://t.co/84tl27dblX https://t.co/1El3cCbyyr

Paperback, 2021

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book