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BFS Online: Inspiration – History & Current Affairs

Does life imitate art or is it the other way around? How do historical events and the world we live

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Trial of the Sun Queen

TRIAL OF THE SUN QUEEN by Nisha J. Tull. Orbit Books. p/b. £9.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins. Lor

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The Darkness Before

THE DARKNESS BEFORE THEM by Matthew Ward. Orbit Books. p/b. £10.99. Reviewed by Elloise Hopkins.

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Lauren McMenemy

Meet Sarah Elliott

Every Friday, we meet a member of the BFS and peer deep into their soul (or, at least, a form they

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The lost cause

THE LOST CAUSE By Cory Doctorow HeadOfZeus, hb, £18.40 Reviewed Christine Downie I looked forward

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Subgenre deep dive: Sword & Sorcery

In this second edition of her new regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for

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