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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The Open Door: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Margaret Oliphant
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
Resilient
Allen Stroud
🚀 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
A Fractured Infinity
Nathan Tavares
🚀 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
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
“…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
Momenticon
Andrew Caldecott
🚀 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
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
Sheree Renée Thomas
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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Inhibitor Phase
Alastair Reynolds
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
Warning Light Calling
Peter Westergaard
🚀 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
Watch Dogs Legion: Daybreak Legacy
Stewart Hotston
🚀 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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Something More Than Night
Kim Newman
🚀 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