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    Book Review: Stardust, Nina Allan

    January 4, 2014 /

    Stardust is one of three books by Nina Allan published so far this year. First was the story collection Microcosmos. Next came the novella, Spin. Now we have Stardust, published as a very striking hardback by PS Publishing as PS Showcase #11. Stardust is subtitled The Ruby Castle Stories, but who (or what) is Ruby Castle? Actually Ruby Castle is a person, rather than a place. But these six stories and a poem tell us very little about her. She only appears in one story, and then ...

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  • Book Review: Echoes From The Macabre: Selected Stories, Daphne du Maurier
  • The New Media Writing Prize
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  • Cloud Atlas, Skyfall and the McDonald’s-isation of Storytelling
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  • Exploring Daphne du Maurier’s Cornwall
  • Interview: Jonathan Oliver, editor-in-chief, Solaris Books
  • Book Review: The Kings of Eternity, Eric Brown
  • They Do Things Differently There
  • Book Review: Falling Over, James Everington
  • Film Review: La Puta y la Bellena
  • Book Review: Night Film, Marisha Pessl
  • Book Review: Stardust, Nina Allan
  • Book Review: Spin, Nina Allan
  • Book Review: Intrusion, Ken MacLeod
  • The Mirror of Our Dreams
  • Book Review: Bellefleur, Joyce Carol Oates
  • Book Review: Joyland, Stephen King
  • Book Review: Microcosmos, Nina Allan
  • Stephen King – A Beginner’s Guide
  • The Invention of Iain M. Banks
  • Book Review: Objects in Dreams, Lisa Tuttle
  • Book Reviews: This Shared Dream & In War Times, Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • A day with Jane Goodall
  • Some notes on Christopher Priest’s The Islanders
  • interview – Robert Holdstock
  • interview – Christopher Priest
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  • interview – Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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