Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
I’m working on surviving the madness. I try and stay away from television news because its so intrusive. My email newsletters from the Guardian, a trusted paper not owned by any oligarchs, who are therefore allowed the journalistic freedom to
Pair Alleles is book 4 in the wonderfully mind-bending Derivatives of Displacement series by Jennifer Ellis. We follow twins Abbey and Caleb, who are both ‘gifted’ – Abbey starts the series at around age 12 studying with the 16-18 year old
I got a Net-Galley copy of this to review before its publication which is this coming Thursday, July 7th. The blurb reads like it might be for older children, since the protagonists are boys in boarding school, but it’s not.
These both qualify for entries in The BookShelf Gargoyle’s Oddity Odyssey, for me, at any rate. They are united in their alternative realities and bickering. Lots of bickering! They both really good reads, though. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman I’m not